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Cerna 'Chickie' Alter, 1939-2013
Cerna "Chickie" Alter was not a brilliant artist, but she knew great art when she saw it, friends said. Mrs. Alter studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago, and then in the 1960s started a corporate art consulting business with a fellow art-...
Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Mexico
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Newsmaker Q&A: Pat Halpin-Murphy
Pat Halpin-Murphy is president and founder of the Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition. The coalition, founded in 1993, is a statewide nonprofit providing public awareness of breast cancer and encouraging increased public and private funding for research,...Tags: Breast Cancer, Plastic Surgery, Medical Research, University of Pennsylvania, Research
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Angelina Jolie's decision to get double mastectomy isn't unusual in Lehigh Valley
Kelly Vanek, a runner, cyclist and triathlete, was listening to sports talk radio in the car when the conversation shifted to Angelina Jolie. The actress and sex symbol took the public by surprise last week with the announcement that she had her healthy...
Tags: Celebrities, Radio, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mammogram, Breast Cancer
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Jolie's revelation has business, legal angles
The Philadelphia InquirerThe revelation this week by the film star Angelina Jolie of a double mastectomy to help avoid breast cancer had business and legal angles as well. Myriad Genetics, the Utah company at the center of a legal debate about the acceptability of gene...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, U.S. Supreme Court, Breast Cancer, Health and Medical Professionals, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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With nightmare illness, bride finds her dream wedding
The Monitor, McAllen, TexasDearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join this man and this woman in holy matrimony... When Jessica Azua, 19, met 24-year-old Tomas Carrasco two years ago, Jessica said they connected instantly. Carrasco, a Marine Corps veteran, had just...Tags: Services and Shopping, Social Media, Symptoms, Event Planning, Family
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Gene mutation raises questions about preventive surgery
St. Joseph News-Press, Mo.Angelina Jolie made headlines Tuesday when she revealed she had a double mastectomy to help decrease her risk of breast cancer. Figureheads across the United States applauded her decision. Dr. George Mulder, a general surgeon with Heartland Health, also...Tags: Breast Cancer, Angelina Jolie, Mastectomy, Tamoxifen (drug)
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Surgeon and patient: Jolie decision right
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.WVU Hospitals Interim Chief of Surgical Oncology Hannah Hazard said a double mastectomy is something doctors counsel patients to undergo if they have the same genetic trait that led actress Angelina Jolie to undergo the procedure. Hazard performs...Tags: Vaccines, Oncology, Breast Cancer, Mammogram, Women's Health
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Sisters increase awareness of hereditary breast cancer
Richmond Times-DispatchWhen tests showed that sisters Dina Reinhardt and Tracie Abrams both carried the breast cancer 1 gene mutation, significantly raising their risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers, both decided to have their breasts removed. Reinhardt, 36, married...Tags: Genetics, Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer, Medical Specialization, Health and Medical Professionals
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Angelina Jolie's mastectomy news reverberates in South Florida
When Angelina Jolie announced Tuesday that she had both breasts removed to cut her risk of cancer, experts across South Florida predicted the Hollywood superstar saved more lives than her own. In the age of genetic testing, more women with cancer-...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Genetics, Breast Cancer, Judaism, Medical Specialization
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AUBURN UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S GOLF: Tigers overcome off-course adversity, advance to NCAA Championship
Opelika-Auburn News, Ala.Kim Evans sat in the golf cart atop a hill overlooking Auburn University Club's 18th green Saturday morning, welcoming supporters as her team finished its third round of the NCAA East Regional. It took a lot for her to sit there. After watching her...Tags: Breast Cancer, Sports, LPGA Tour, Golf, Travel
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A first class food drive in the Midlands
The StateMidlands residents and others across the state are being asked to make special deliveries of their own this weekend to help fight hunger. Harvest Hope Food Bank is joining the National Association of Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive again...Tags: Goodwill Industries International, American Red Cross, Charity, Saluda
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Portland Press Herald, Maine, Off Beat column
Portland Press Herald, MaineLiterary Death Match is not exactly what it seems. First of all, no authors have died participating in it. Yet. Second, it sounds like, and is set up like, an author reading competition. Creator/host Adrian Todd Zuniga travels to locations around...Tags: The Happiest News!, Satellite and Cable Service, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events, The Huffington Post
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