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Student news
SALISBURY, Md. — Dominique Adelina Forsman, a freshman, was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester in the Fulton School of Liberal Arts at Salisbury University. She is the daughter of Cheryl Titus of Hagerstown. She graduated...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Lymphoma, Financial Aid, Mount Airy, Education
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Robert Guerrero says fate's in his corner vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Robert Guerrero leaned on his faith through a drawn-out wait before unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. tapped him as his next opponent, May 4 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. “I just always believed that it was meant to be and that I’d be...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), Abusive Behavior, Floyd Mayweather, Jr., Ultimate Fighting Championship
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Hopkins researcher receives new award to spotlight scientists
Many people have heard of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg or Google co-founder Sergey Brin. But few know about Bert Vogelstein, a Johns Hopkins scientist who helped map the cancer genome and created gene and stool tests to detect colon cancer. A new,...
Tags: Google Inc., Princeton University, Colon Cancer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Medical Research
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Support group members draw strength from each other
This past Tuesday night I met with a very special group of people. They were all a group of blood cancer survivors who have gone through some rather traumatic times in their lives. These were people who were willing to help other people through their...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Hodgkins Disease
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The importance of dignity, on land and at sea
My late father used to say that no quality of human life was more important than dignity. That wisdom came to mind the other night when I sat with my wife watching CNN as the exhausted passengers finally began debarking from the cruise ship Carnival...Tags: Arts and Culture, Values, U.S. Supreme Court, Religion and Belief, Petroleum Industry
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Coventry Sculptor Back Among His Outdoor Creations
David Hayes lives in an early-18th-century house on a 57-acre lot in Coventry, his home since 1968. To wander around Hayes' property is to discover Hayes' passion. On 10 acres of open fields, and scattered in the marshy woods, are hundreds of Hayes'...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Diseases and Illnesses, University of Connecticut Health Center, Connecticut College, Sculpture
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Fukushima nuclear disaster adds only small health risks, WHO says
The 9.0-magnitude Tohoku-Oki earthquake and resulting tsunami that triggered a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station has resulted in only a small increase in lifetime cancer risks for people living nearby, and an even smaller...
Tags: Tokyo Electric Power Co., Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Birth Defects, Medical Research, United Nations
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Cancer patient gets fairy-tale bedroom
It's a room fit for a little princess. There's a wall mural featuring a leafy tree and fairy tale castle. A corner tea table is set with antique cups and saucers, and a closet has room for royal costumes and stuffed animals. It took 20 volunteers...
Tags: Lymphoma, Health Treatments, Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, Cancer, Human Interest
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Don't cut lifesaving dollars
It would be fair to say that Patient 5 owes his life to medical research. Also known as David Aponte, he was the headlining success story from a recent clinical trial at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The trial tested a new approach — in...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Viral Diseases and Infections, Medical Research, Finance, Budgets and Budgeting
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Indian court ruling hailed as victory for generic drugs
The Indian Supreme Court ruled Monday that a Swiss drug company cannot patent a medicine used to treat a rare form of leukemia, in a decision with global implications for generic drugs. The court ruled that Glivec, the drug developed by Novartis, was...
Tags: Trade Dispute, Drugs and Medicines, Economic Organization, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Contracts
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Drug maker Novartis loses India patent battle
India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent an updated version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that health activists say ensures poor patients around the world will get continued access to cheap versions...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health Treatments, HIV, Novartis AG, Chemical Industry
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The veterans benefits backlog
It is shameful that veterans of the United States military have to wait months, and sometimes more than a year, to begin receiving the benefits they are owed after their years of service. Yet that is the case. Almost 900,000 veterans across the...
Tags: U.S. Military, Diseases and Illnesses, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Veterans Affairs
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