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Will Supreme Court's take on gene patents help Myriad?
While the Supreme Court’s decision to forbid patents on human genes knocked out Myriad Genetics' long-guarded patent on two genes linked to breast cancer, the Utah-based company’s stock still rose soon after the news broke. That bit of...
Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, City of Hope, Science and Technology, University of California, Los Angeles, Myriad Genetics Incorporated
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Children's Hospitals
In photographs, Megan Webber’s 5-year-old son Benjamin had a white glow on one eye where other people have that little red dot. It didn’t seem important at first, then her sister remembered seeing a TV show about the glow and eye disease.... -
Letters: Jolie's choice
Re "Why Jolie's surgery? It's for the kids," Column One, May 15 My story is similar to Angelina Jolie's, though there are some differences. Ten years ago, at the age of 43, I had a prophylactic double mastectomy because I was the single mother of two...
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer, Mastectomy, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Medical Specialization
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Angelina Jolie can afford to save her own life; many women can't
This post has been corrected, as noted below.I’d like to raise the teensiest red flag on Angelina Jolie’s laudable decision Tuesday to go public about her health struggles in order to help other women benefit from her experience. In an essay published Tuesday in the New York Times,...Tags: Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer, Mastectomy, Ovarian Cancer
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Patient is out of network, out of luck
A worrisome abdominal pain drove Jalal Afshar to seek treatment last year at healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente. The Pasadena resident and Kaiser member had lived for years with a rare condition known as Castleman's disease, which affects the lymph...
Tags: Breach of Contract, Health Treatments, Insurance, Health and Safety at School, Medical Research
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Decoding Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy and BRCA genes
Angelina Jolie’s revelation that she underwent a preventative double mastectomy may seem like a shocking move to some. But for many women who have dangerous hereditary risks coded into their genes, this kind of surgery before cancer strikes serves...
Tags: Angelina Jolie, Breast Cancer, Mastectomy, Tamoxifen (drug), Ovarian Cancer
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Insult To Injury
Adriann Georges was seriously ill and facing the fight of her life in 1999. She had been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer and was undergoing chemotherapy and other treatment in hopes of beating the disease. Her oncologists recommended Aredia to...
Tags: Health Treatments, Science and Technology, Breast Cancer, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Tumor DNA studies help explain cancer genetics
As it has become more efficient and less expensive to analyze the DNA in normal cells, it has also gotten a whole lot easier to analyze the mutated DNA in tumors — a project scientists hope will help explain why cancer behaves as it does and what...
Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Specialization, Chemical Industry, Medical Research, Genetics
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The New War on Cancer
It used to be that the cancer doctor’s toolbox contained three essential tools — a scalpel to cut out the disease, chemo to poison it and radiation to zap it.
But today that toolbox is bulging with new and better weapons.
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L.A. Now Live: Gov. Jerry Brown treated for prostate cancer
L.A. NOWGov. Jerry Brown is receiving radiation treatment for early stage prostate cancer, but is expected to maintain a full work schedule, his office announced. The Times Sacramento reporter Michael Mishak will join L.A. Now Live at 9 a.m. to discuss the 74-... -
Gov. Jerry Brown being treated for prostate cancer
PolitiCalThe office of Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that California's chief executive is being treated for prostate cancer. Dr. Eric Small, Brown’s oncologist at UC San Francisco, said in a statement that the governor is undergoing a short course of.... -
Brown's cancer doctor a leader in his field, colleagues say
PolitiCalDr. Eric J. Small, the oncologist treating Gov. Jerry Brown’s cancer, is highly respected in the profession and a leading expert on the treatment of prostate cancer, colleagues say. The governor "is in very good hands,’’ said Stuart...
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