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Building camp is its own kind of therapy
TribLocal - EvanstonEric Lentz and his wife, Deanna Hallagan, used to joke that if they ever won the lottery, they would open a camp for troubled teens. …... -
Raising awareness about brain cancer, one step at a time
Beach Beat - Orlando SentinelAmong the many visitors to Central Florida, Harold Cameron is passing through, walking in many cities with his unique message and powered by his sheer will to survive. Cameron, a 54-year-old man from Pennsylvania, has two brain tumors and is on a... -
Six Flags searches for blood-curdling screamers, lesion-faced ghouls, singers with vampiric tendencies
TribLocal - Libertyville » NewsA zombie waited in line for measurements. Blood-curdling screams erupted from behind a partition wall. Other than that, a recent round of hiring at Six …... -
Two new drugs extend survival for Melanoma patients
For the first time, patients with the deadliest form of skin cancer have two new treatment options that prolong survival, according to new research presented at a cancer conference in Chicago on Sunday. One drug specifically targets a mutated gene that...Tags: Chemotherapy, University of Pennsylvania, Diseases and Illnesses, Stranger Than Fiction, Immune System
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30 Years Later, Sacramento Gay Community Reflects on AIDS Discovery
FOX40 NewsThirty years ago the gay community was in a full panic; something was killing gay men. Initially it was called the Gay Plague, and then GRID. A name so offensive the Gay community named it something else: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: AIDS....Tags: Skin Lesion, HIV, Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Human Body
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Many men with low-risk prostate cancer overtreated, study finds
About three-quarters of men with low-risk prostate tumors that can safely be ignored for months or years receive aggressive treatment, despite the risk of complications, researchers reported Monday. The findings, published in the Archives of Internal...Tags: Physical Therapists, New Jersey, Diseases and Illnesses, Politics, Health
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A cancer cocktail's edge
Special to the Los Angeles TimesEven if a vaccine produces an appropriate cancer-attacking immune response, it still may not be enough to achieve clinical benefit, especially in patients with very advanced disease. This could be because the ability of large tumors to suppress the...Tags: Vaccines, Diseases and Illnesses, Los Angeles Times, Health, Immune System
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Coming soon in the medical arsenal against cancer: vaccines
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's a deceptively simple idea: What if doctors could recruit the body's own immune system to fight cancer? The complexities of the immune system have kept this from becoming reality, until now. Three cancer vaccines -- for prostate cancer, melanoma and...Tags: Chemotherapy, Social Issues, Vaccines, Leukemia, Diseases and Illnesses
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FDA approves first oral drug to slow multiple sclerosis progression
A failed anti-rejection drug got a new purpose and a new lease on commercial life Wednesday as the Food and Drug Administration approved the medication fingolimod -- to be marketed as Gilenya -- to slow the progression of disability in multiple...Tags: Entertainment, Diseases and Illnesses, Nervous System, Los Angeles Times, Health
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Study: CT Scans Will Cause Cancer Deaths
Widespread overuse of CT scans and variations in radiation doses caused by different machines -- operated by technicians following an array of procedures -- are subjecting patients to high radiation doses that will ultimately lead to tens of thousands...Tags: Social Issues, Science and Technology, Entertainment, X-rays, Los Angeles
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