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Genomes provide clues for treating leukemia, endometrial cancers
Efforts to sequence the human genome have revealed genetic risk for disease, and taught us about our early ancestors. Now, efforts to sequence the genomes of cancer cells -- to pinpoint the changes that occur in cancer cells' DNA when a person has the...
Tags: Endometrial cancer, Drugs and Medicines, Diseases and Illnesses, Breast Cancer, Medical Research
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Robert Guerrero knows pressure, and it's not fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr.
LAS VEGAS — Robert Guerrero is from Gilroy, California's garlic capital of the world. His greatest fight stages have been in San Jose and Ontario. And his most compelling pre-fight publicity stop was on evangelist Pat Robertson's "700 Club."...
Tags: Welterweight, Politics, Boxing, Gun Control, Super Featherweight Boxing
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Live discussion: Will Floyd Mayweather Jr. remain undefeated?
 Join Times boxing writer Lance Pugmire at 1 p.m. today for a live discussion of the upcoming Floyd Mayweather-Robert Guerrero fight. Guerrero is a heavy underdog in the fight against the undefeated Mayweather, but as Pugmire wrote Thursday, that's...
Tags: Welterweight, Boxing, Super Featherweight Boxing, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Featherweight Boxing
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Dave Gold dies at 80; entrepreneur behind 99 Cents Only chain
Dave Gold launched his 99 Cents Only Stores empire in Los Angeles at age 50 after mulling over the idea for over a decade. The thrifty entrepreneur took the dollar store concept and introduced it to middle-class and upscale neighborhoods. In the...
Tags: Politics, 99 Cents Only Stores, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare, Heart Attack
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Poll: Should doctors tell terminally ill patients they're dying?
As my colleague Melissa Healy noted Thursday, a British medical journal recently invited doctors who specialize in end-of-life care to debate whether patients should be told that they're terminally ill. Two London-based palliative care doctors argued in...
Tags: Palliative Care, Cancer, Respiratory Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, University of Virginia
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Study: Hookah no safer than cigarettes, just differently dangerous
Cigarette smoking may have earned a reputation as an unhealthy, cancer-causing pastime, but water pipes seem to have largely evaded the stigma. Now, new research shows that water pipes may simply be dangerous in slightly different ways, according to a...
Tags: Mayo Clinic, Medical Research, Heart Attack, Science and Technology
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar continues to promote a healthy, active lifestyle
Over the weekend, Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar led a processional on a one-mile walk outside of the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. Abdul-Jabbar's Final Four Dome Dribble Fueled by Powerade was part of his campaign to encourage fun, healthy and...
Tags: Lymphoma, National Basketball Association, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, Jimmy Kimmel
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Living near traffic linked to increased cancer risk in children
Researchers have already uncovered worrying signs that exposure to traffic – and the vehicle emissions that come with it – can increase a child’s risk of developing asthma and autism. Now comes evidence that it may make children more...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Autism, California Department of Transportation, Cancer, University of California, Irvine
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Fukushima nuclear disaster adds only small health risks, WHO says
The 9.0-magnitude Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami that triggered a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station has resulted in only a small increase in lifetime cancer risks for people living nearby, and an even smaller...
Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Nuclear Power, Breast Cancer, Fukushima (Fukushima, Japan), Medical Research
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Don't cut lifesaving dollars
It would be fair to say that Patient 5 owes his life to medical research. Also known as David Aponte, he was the headlining success story from a recent clinical trial at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The trial tested a new approach — in...
Tags: Research, Finance, Science, Medical Research, Botox (drug)
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Indian court ruling hailed as victory for generic drugs
The Indian Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Swiss drug company cannot patent a medicine used to treat a rare form of leukemia, in a decision with global implications for generic drugs. The court ruled that Glivec, the drug developed by Novartis, was...
Tags: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Drugs and Medicines, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Trade Dispute, Economic Organization
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Drug maker Novartis loses India patent battle
India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent an updated version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that health activists say ensures poor patients around the world will get continued access to cheap versions...
Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Chemical Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, India
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