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UPDATE 2-Medarex’s 4th-qtr beats market expectations
Reuters – The company’s most-watched drug candidate ipilimumab, which is being evaluated for the cancer known as advanced melanoma, had mixed results last year in three key studies, one of which failed to meet its main aim. Continued.
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Inqlings: Sambora’s crib: Two Liberty
Philiy.com – He may spill the price tag, which likely is in the high seven figures. Sambora told People mag recently that he’s recovering from a horrible 2007, including the death of his father from lung cancer, his divorce from Heather Locklear , alcohol rehab, a
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Local News Stories
Columbia Daily Tribune – The seven-story Ellis Fischel Cancer Center on Business Loop 70 was built as a pinnacle of cancer research in 1940 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt s Public Works Administration. Now, with parts of the building in disrepair, patient rooms
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Ky. Groups Want Higher Cigarette Tax
Forbes – Anti-smoking advocates started an advertising campaign Tuesday aimed at convincing lawmakers in one of the nation’s leading tobacco-producing states to increase taxes on cigarettes. The American Cancer Society will spend $75,000 on newspaper and
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Students learn art of striking a pose
Edinburgh News – A lot of it is luck, laughs 21-year-old history of art student and show chairman, Rollo Gwyn-Jones. Our aim is always to raise a substantial amount of money for our chosen charities which are this year MacMillan Cancer and Project Scotland, so
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Breast cancer gene carriers need dual screening
Reuters – NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Among women with BRCA1 gene mutations, which are known to increase the risk of breast cancer, annual screening with both mammography and MRI is associated with better survival when compared with screening with either
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