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Breast cancer walk hits the ground running
A more user-friendly website is open for registration and online fundraising. Corporate sponsors are lining up nicely, and team organizing has started in earnest for the American Cancer Society's 2013 Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk for south...Tags: American Cancer Society, Chemical Industry, Health Organizations, Women's Health, Pharmaceuticals
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Actor Rob Lowe to speak at Go Pink Luncheon
California-based actor, producer-director and recent author Rob Lowe will be the speaker at the 10th anniversary of Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation's Go Pink Luncheon Oct. 25 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, organizers have announced. Lowe speaks...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Charlie Sheen, National Geographic Channel (tv network), John F. Kennedy, Celebrities
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Supreme Court wisdom on DNA
From the Chicago TribuneAmerica has always been a creative place, partly because the authors of the Constitution wanted it to be. Among the powers they granted Congress was the right "to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and...Tags: Chemical Industry, Clarence Thomas, Biology, Breast Cancer, Medical Specialization
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Melissa Etheridge slams Angelina Jolie's double mastectomy as 'fearful'
While most people have praised Angelina Jolie's decision to get a preventative double mastectomy, Melissa Etheridge is not one of them. The breast cancer survivor came out in a new interview to say that she feels Jolie made a cowardly move in having...
Tags: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Women's Health, Melissa Etheridge, Breast Cancer
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One Woman's Choice Expected To Be Talk Of Tattoo Convention
The Hartford CourantAt Tommy's Tattoo Convention, happening this weekend at Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, hundreds of tattoos will be created: skulls, monsters, flames, eloquent mottos, pretty girls, animals, birds. Compared to these, a spray of pink peonies may...Tags: Health, Services and Shopping, Groton, Angelina Jolie, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Mom wishes it would stay June forever
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceThroughout the month of June, I play tricks with the calendar and myself. On June 4, I tell myself summer hasn't really started because the kids aren't out of school yet. On June 10, I remind myself that while it may be the second week of June, it's...Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Periodicals, Fox Business Network (tv network), Lou Dobbs, Breast Cancer
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Human gene patenting is a thing most of us aren't ready for
In the course of our country's history, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has bestowed coveted protection on many strange and wondrous inventions: the three-legged pantyhose (in case one leg runs), the sealed, circular peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich,...
Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Science, Robert Cook, Chemical Industry, Clarence Thomas
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BRCA gene decision hailed
Jewish breast cancer survivors were among the people celebrating a recent United States Supreme Court decision. The high court ruled unanimously that patents cannot be held on naturally occurring human genes. The decision came in a case in which...Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Religion and Belief, Biology, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Jupiter
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Supreme Court rejects idea of patenting natural human genes
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that naturally occurring human genes may not be patented, potentially opening up commercial and scientific terrain to more freewheeling exploration. In a unanimous decision that is a mixed bag for the...Tags: Ovarian Cancer, Science, Chemical Industry, Business Enterprises, Clarence Thomas
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Supreme Court rejects gene patents
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled that human genes are a product of nature and cannot be patented and held for profit, a decision that medical experts said will lead to more genetic testing for cancers and other diseases and to lower costs for...
Tags: Pathology, Cardiologists, Chemical Industry, Clarence Thomas, Biology
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Ban on patenting DNA cheers researchers
Researchers hailed the Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that bans the patenting of human DNA, saying it would expand access to genetic testing for disease at lower cost to patients. In a unanimous decision, the justices said Myriad Genetics did not have...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Colleges and Universities, American Civil Liberties Union, Clarence Thomas, Justice and Rights
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Doctors: Supreme Court BRCA gene patent ruling benefits patients
When Dr. Wayne Grody heard that the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Myriad Genetics could not patent two genes linked to breast cancer, the UCLA medical geneticist was minutes from giving a well-worn speech on the years-old case to a room full of...
Tags: Biology, Medical Research, Muscular Dystrophy, Breast Cancer, Medical Specialization
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