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NYPD ‘questioning people continuously’ in shooting of L.A. man
L.A. NOWNew York City police are continuing to question several people who may have information about the suspect who gunned down a Los Angeles man this week as he was walking down a busy Manhattan street. Brandon Woodard was killed Monday...... -
Cancer death rates fall as HPV-associated cancers rise: U.S. report
This year’s Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, released online Monday, brought Americans good news and bad. Extending a trend since the early 1990s, authors reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute that cancer...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Immunization, Vaccines, Medical Research, Obesity
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No overall increased cancer risk for those exposed to WTC site
A new study has some good news for people who lived or worked in lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center – exposure to dust and debris from the fallen twin towers has not resulted in an overall...
Tags: Prostate, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, American Medical Association, Medical Research, Mesothelioma
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Charles Rosen dies at 85; pianist wrote 'The Classical Style'
Charles Rosen, the renowned pianist and prolific writer whose award-winning book "The Classical Style" has been read by music students around the world, has died. He was 85. The New York-born musician had been suffering from cancer and died Sunday...
Tags: Entertainment, Harvard University, Upper West Side, Culture, Authors
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Newport Beach boat builder's dream may have finally run aground
L.A. NOWA Newport Beach boat builder’s efforts to restore a historic 1916 sailboat in a yard at his home may have finally run aground. After Dennis Holland, 67, missed an Aug. 30 date to disassemble the Shawnee, Newport Beach city attorneys...... -
Stanford Ovshinsky dies at 89; inventor founded new field of electronics
Stanford Ovshinsky was not a household name like Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein, but he was often compared to them, for good reason. He invented the nickel-metal hydride battery, which has powered high-tech items such as cellphones, laptop computers...
Tags: Asthma, Automotive Equipment, Science, Bankruptcy, General Electric Company
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Movember marketing from Gillette, razor rivals and barbershops
Menfolk around the world are growing out their facial hair this month to raise awareness for prostate cancer efforts – a hirsute affair known as Movember. This is fantastic news for men’s health advocates, some of whom participate in a...
Tags: Marketing, Under Armour Inc., New Products, Movember
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Norodom Sihanouk dies at 89; former king of Cambodia
Former King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, an unpredictable and crafty political survivor whose fortunes were entwined with U.S. military involvement in Indochina, died Monday of natural causes in Beijing, where he had undergone medical treatment,...
Tags: China, FBI, Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Richard Nixon, Frank Sinatra
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Warren Buffett invests in parties, buys Oriental Trading Co.
Billionaire financier Warren Buffett already has his hands in newspapers, jewelry, insurance and other holdings. Now, with the acquisition of Oriental Trading Co., the 82-year-old can add party planning. Buffett said Friday that his Berkshire Hathaway...
Tags: GEICO, Financially Distressed Companies, The Carlyle Group, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Companies and Corporations
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Men's Health Spotlight
Robotic surgery was initially developed to target prostate cancer — and today four in five prostectomies are performed by this revolutionary system, according to the National Cancer Institute. Although robotics — the pioneering da Vinci...
Tags: Prostate, Chemotherapy, Health Treatments, Hospitals and Clinics, Radiation Therapy
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Frank Wilson dies at 71; Motown writer, producer
Motown's Frank Wilson wrote and produced hit records for such big names as the Supremes and the Temptations, but he was best known for a single recorded in Los Angeles that featured his own voice — and was never released. Copies of his "Do I Love...
Tags: Entertainment, The Temptations (music group), BBC, England, City of Hope
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Screenings to help treat the right cancers
Cancer is running out of places to hide. A new blood test can ferret out a single cancer cell tucked away among a billion healthy cells. Radiologists are using crystal-clear 3-D mammograms to find suspicious spots and lumps that they never could have seen...
Tags: Chemotherapy, Medical Research, X-rays, Radiology, Science and Technology
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