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'Next Iron Chef' recap: It's an awkward Vegas wedding
The remaining five contestants on "Next Iron Chef" took a trip to Las Vegas Sunday evening for a Vegas wedding -- of wacky ingredients, of course. For the Chairman's Challenge of fusion, host Alton Brown married ingredients for the chefs: peanut butter...
Tags: Salads, Limes, Marshmallows, Justice System, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Stem cell transplant boosts function slightly in Parkinson's monkeys
In a small but hopeful step for researchers working on therapies to treat Parkinson’s disease, a team in Japan has used stem cells harvested from bone marrow to restore function in monkeys with the debilitating condition. The cell transplants...
Tags: Parkinson's Disease, Japan, Science, Diseases and Illnesses, Loss of Motor Skills
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Nobel winner Joseph Murray dies; performed first successful kidney transplant
BOSTON — Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died at age 93. Murray suffered a stroke at his suburban Boston home on Thanksgiving and died at Brigham...
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Hokie dreams come true for Chase Ringler after surviving cancer
BLACKSBURG — With his dad spotting him Friday in Virginia Tech's football weight room, Chase Ringler desperately threw every ounce of his 54-pound body into trying to bench press the 45-pound bar above him. At first, the bar barely budged, but he...
Tags: Neuroblastoma, Meningitis, Cancer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Rheumatoid Arthritis
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Hundreds Simply Hoping To Help Save A Life
The Hartford CourantThey showed up Tuesday at the Eastern Connecticut Sports Center. There were a hundred of them, students and student-athletes, and they wanted to help one of their own. Then there were 200 of them, faculty, staff and administrators, too, and they stood...Tags: Hartford Hospital, Blood, Cancer, College Sports, Labor Day
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E. Donnall Thomas dies at 92; physician won a Nobel Prize
E. Donnall Thomas, a physician who pioneered the use of bone marrow transplants in leukemia patients and won the 1990 Nobel Prize in medicine, died Saturday in Seattle of heart disease. He was 92. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle,...
Tags: Lymphoma, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Boston, Cancer, Research
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People walk to raise bone marrow awareness
More than 250 people raised about $50,000 on Saturday for the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry during the seventh annual walkathon, “Walk of Life 2012.” The 6K walk began at Glendale Memorial Hospital to raise awareness about patients...
Tags: Charity, Blood, Leukemia, Human Interest
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Nobel laureate, bone-marrow transplant innovator Dr. E. Donnall Thomas dies
Q13 FOX News OnlineNobel Prize winner and medical pioneer E. Donnall Thomas, M.D., died Saturday at the age of 92. Thomas won the Nobel Prize in 1990 for his work in bone-marrow transplantation to cure leukemias and other blood cancers. In 1974, Thomas became the first...Tags: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Cancer, Research, Blood Disorders, Health Treatments
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York County two-year-old boy needs bone marrow transplant
ReporterA two-year-old York County boy is in need of a bone marrow transplant. Joey Duffy was recently diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, a rare blood and bone marrow disorder. "In September he went in for a hematology appointment and he was...Tags: York (York, Pennsylvania), Leukemia
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GMA's Robin Roberts home from hospital
NEW YORK (AP) — ABC's Robin Roberts has come home from the hospital three weeks after undergoing a bone marrow transplant. After thanking her doctors and nurses and singing "Amen," the "Good Morning America" host began the next stage of recovery...
Tags: Good Morning America (tv program), ABC (tv network), Hospitals and Clinics, Robin Roberts, Stephen Colbert
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On the Town: Charity care is the goal of hospital 'fundraiser'
It was a balmy “Evening of Wine and Roses.” Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center celebrated the 25th anniversary of their annual fundraiser. On Oct. 7, more than 600 supporters walked the red carpet toward the hospital’s patio...
Tags: Restaurants, Charity, Auction Service, Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Provider
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Pacers player pushes to add people to bone marrow registry
Pacer's star, Roy Hibbert, is stepping up to recruit more bone marrow donors. Hibbert was at the Castleton Square Mall today, signing autographs and encouraging people to sign up for the "Be The Match" program. It puts people in a registry to be matched...
Tags: Leukemia
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