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Cancer Institute provides new aid to locals
Staff WriterBRAWLEY — Local residents suffering from cancer no longer have to travel far for treatment, as the Cancer Institute at the Pioneers Memorial Hospital has begun accepting patients. The state-of-the-art center provides a full range of medical...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Health Treatments, Colon Cancer, Oncology, Breast Cancer
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Photo win was a gift
El CentroI entered the photo contest at the fair this year for the first time with no expectations of winning. I only entered in remembrance of my father, Howard Bowers, who died of metastatic prostate cancer in 2009. The picture was taken in Herbster, Wis.,... -
Some cancers hereditary, environmental
Imperial Valley Press Sports EditorKari Smelser had a feeling she would get breast cancer sometime in her life. Her grandmother is a breast cancer survivor and had colon cancer, her mom has had cervical cancer and her grandfather died from lung cancer. Those factors together are part of...Tags: Mastectomy, Health Treatments, Colon Cancer, Breast Cancer, Cancer
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Veterans hear 'straight talk' about benefits
Imperial Valley Press StaffIMPERIAL — Eighty-eight year old World War II veteran Riley Manning has a long laundry list of ailments. From hernias and prostate cancer to his quintuple bypass, this former Navy seaman said his problems started not long after the nine major...Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), World War II (1939-1945), Health, Veterans Affairs, National Security
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Inked! It's about coffee, I guess
Column-writing can be pure drudgery. The best you can hope for is a piece that is remembered a week after it runs, or better yet, one that is forgotten the moment it exits the eyes and courses through the brain.
I’ve been the man behind many...Tags: Human Body, Health and Safety at School, Brain, Health, Behavioral Conditions
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Sunday All Golf Center, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. at C.B. Smith Park, 900 N. Flamingo Road, Pembroke Pines. Call 954-441-1333. Butterfly Gardening Workshop, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Secret Woods Nature Center, 2701 W. State Road 84, Dania Beach. $10. Call 954-357-...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Coconut Creek, The Salvation Army, Dania Beach, Tamarac
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New J&J anti-depressant related to 'Special K' party drug
ReutersNEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said it plans to seek approvals for 11 new drugs by 2017, including a treatment for patients with depression who have failed to benefit from standard medications. The intranasal drug, called...Tags: New Products, Heart Failure, Hepatitis C , Flu, Medical Research
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UCI develops easy, inexpensive prostate cancer test
UC Irvine chemists have found a way to detect prostate cancer that's as inexpensive and easy as a pregnancy test, the university announced this week. By identifying markers for the disease in urine, the method can detect prostate cancer's presence...Tags: University of California, Irvine, Viral Diseases and Infections, Science and Technology
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'Mr. Motivatr' leaves them laughing
The monogram on his polo shirt read "Mr. Motivatr." Jacques Wiesel joked that there wasn't space for the "o." Wiesel, who with his family fled Brussels and the Nazis when he was seven years old, had enough brushes with death by the time U.S. troops in...Tags: Human Interest, Tamarac, Cardiologists, Pembroke Pines, Judaism
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Laurel Relay for Life is a walk through the night
Nancy Becraft has a T-shirt from each year Laurel has held a Relay for Life, and has witnessed the growth of the event since the first relay in 1999. "We only started out with about 11 teams," Becraft said. This year there are 40 teams, and counting....
Tags: Human Interest, American Legion, American Cancer Society, Laurel, Relay for Life
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Pricey radiation no better post prostatectomy: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who get an older and less costly form of radiation after their cancerous prostates are removed fare just as well as men who get a new and expensive type of radiation, according to a new study. "What we demonstrate is...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Health Treatments, Health and Medical Professionals, Medical Research, Internists
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Does prostate cancer treatment help older, sick men?
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older men with other illnesses may not live long enough to benefit from aggressive prostate cancer treatments, such as prostate removal or radiation, and they'd have to live with their side effects, says a new study. "If you'...Tags: American Cancer Society, Heart Attack, Health Treatments, Demographics, Medical Research
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