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Idaho teen loses cancer fight after delivering son
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Jenni Lake gave birth to a baby boy the month before her 18th birthday, though she was not destined to become just another teenage mother. That much, she knew. While being admitted to the hospital, she pulled her nurse down...Tags: Health, Chemotherapy, Health and Medical Professionals, Hospitals and Clinics, Human Body
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Health care provider pays $3.49M for billing error
BAD AXE, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan nonprofit health care provider has agreed to pay the government $3.49 million after disclosing its billing for chemotherapy treatments at a Bad Axe facility didn't comply with Medicare and Medicaid requirements. The...Tags: Chemotherapy, Hospitals and Clinics, Justice System, Government Health Care, Health Treatments
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Cancer-fighting pill shows promise in battle against melanoma
MISHAWAKA--- Doctors say a cancer-fighting pill shows promising signs in the fight against melanoma -- the most deadly form of skin cancer.
A local oncologist says drug is not a cure, but it shrank tumors and patients who used the drug lived longer....Tags: Chemotherapy, Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Genentech Inc., Human Body
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Doctors aim to save fertility of kids with cancer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The treatment beating back 9-year-old Dylan Hanlon's cancer may also be destroying his chances of fathering his own children when he grows up. Upset that doctors did not make that risk clear, his mother, Christine, tracked down...Tags: Health, Chemotherapy, Hospitals and Clinics, Research, Infertility
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Colorado mom-to-be mistakenly given chemo drugs; long wait to see if baby OK
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Doctors say the early stages of pregnancy are an especially bad time for a pharmacological mix-up where a woman prescribed antibiotics instead is given a powerful drug used in chemotherapy. Yet a pharmacist at a Colorado...Tags: Health, Colleges and Universities, Health Treatments, Physical Conditions, Chemical Industry
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LETTER: Says Genetic Labeling Promotes Agenda
Activist groups pushing for GMO labeling believe that products of biotechnology are inherently dangerous and that consumers must be warned. Well, if these products are in fact dangerous, why don't the groups focus on removing them from the market? The...Tags: Technology, Chemical Industry, Biotechnology Industry, Science and Technology, Allergies
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Thrifty Merrimack developing new cancer drugs at lower cost
ReutersBy Bill Berkrot NEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) - Little known biotechnology company Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Inc has quietly built a large pipeline of experimental cancer treatments that it aims to deliver at a fraction of the cost spent by larger rivals....Tags: Chemotherapy, Science and Technology, Trials, Pancreatic Cancer, Gastric cancer
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IPOVIEW-Quiet U.S. biotech sector picks up steam in 2013
ReutersBy Olivia Oran May 22 (Reuters) - The tide may have started to turn for initial public offerings from U.S. biotechnology companies, as a rising stock market, low interest rates and a lack of market volatility entice investors to take on the high risk...Tags: Chemical Industry, Biotechnology Industry, Financing and Stock Offerings, Science and Technology, Initial Public Offerings
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Melanie Wagner-Johnson
Blogging with Bill WhiteMy column Saturday was about actress Angelina Jolie's decision to have both her breasts removed and the fact that my wife, a breast cancer survivor, had her remaining healthy breast and ovaries removed 11 years ago for much the same...... -
Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Artists, Fiction, Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry, Science and Technology
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Cars and cancer treatment pre-occupy terminally ill Iain Banks
ReutersBy Li-mei Hoang LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Terminally ill Scottish author Iain Banks has been talking online about cars, carbon footprints and chemotherapy for treating his cancer in a new update to fans. The novelist, who recently enjoyed a short...Tags: Chemotherapy, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, Apple iPad, Literature
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Two-day walkout begins at five UC medical centers
A massive walkout of University of California patient care workers that began Tuesday could cost the system's medical centers up to $20 million, officials say. The walkout is expected to last two days and involve more than 12,000 UC workers from the ...
Tags: Chemotherapy, Labor Legislation, Hospitals and Clinics, AFSCME, Career and Workplace
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