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Lockerbie Bomber Bids
to Clear Name

Victims' relatives unimpressed with content of new website

Sep 18, 09 3:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Lockerbie bomber has launched a website that makes available documents from an appeal he mounted before being released for medical reasons, the Telegraph reports. Relatives of the passengers on Pan Am Flight 103 say Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's site contains nothing new: “It's a lobbying effort. It's almost as... More »

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cancer • terrorism • Scotland • Libya • Lockerbie • Pan Am Flight 103 • bomb victims • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

 Chemo Killed Swayze: Somers 

Cancer survivor Suzanne Somers believes 'poison,' 'toxins' killed Patrick Swayze

Sep 18, 09 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Suzanne Somers thinks she knows what killed Patrick Swayze, and it wasn’t cancer—it was chemotherapy, she tells the National Post. “They took this beautiful man,” says Somers, a cancer survivor who has a book about the disease coming out next month, “and they basically... More »

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cancer • entertainment • chemotherapy • celebrity • Patrick Swayze • Suzanne Somers • celebrity death

OBITUARY

 Cancer Takes 
 Swayze, 57 

Dirty Dancing star diagnosed with deadly pancreatic cancer in Jan. 2008

Sep 14, 09 7:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Patrick Swayze died today, TMZ reports, following a battle with pancreatic cancer. The actor, whose credits included Dirty Dancing and Ghost, was 57. Named People’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1991, he was diagnosed with the deadly form of cancer in January 2008; he continued film and TV work,... More »

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cancer • entertainment • pancreatic cancer • People Magazine • actor • Patrick Swayze • Dirty Dancing • Ghost • Lisa Niemi

OBITUARY

Larry Gelbart, Writer on MASH, Tootsie, Dies at 81

Cancer takes man nominated for Oscars, Tonys and Emmys

Sep 11, 09 6:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Larry Gelbart, one of the writers who developed the hit TV series MASH and who scored nominations for Oscar, Tony and Emmy awards, died this morning of cancer at age 81, his wife tells the Los Angeles Times. Actor Jack Lemmon once described Gelbart “as one of the greatest... More »

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cancer • entertainment • Hollywood • Broadway • Larry Gelbart • Oscar nomination • Emmy nomination • Tony nomination • MASH • Tootsie • Jack Lemmon

 Cancer Treatment 
 Derails Tierney's 
 Return to TV 

Breast cancer will take more treatment than initially thought

Sep 11, 09 10:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Treatment for breast cancer has forced a "deeply disappointed" Maura Tierney to withdraw from a leading role in the NBC series Parenthood, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The show was originally scheduled to start airing this month, but production was pushed back to allow Tierney, 44, to undergo... More »

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cancer • entertainment • television • NBC • breast cancer • network television • Maura Tierney • Parenthood

 Report Revives Fears
of Cell Phone-Tumor Link

Industry is downplaying cancer risks, charges group

Sep 10, 09 4:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new report charges that health organizations and the cell phone industry are downplaying clear links between cell phone use and brain cancer, reports the Los Angeles Times.  The latest research shows that cell phone use significantly increases the risk of some kind of tumors, and that young people... More »

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cancer • cell phones • tumor • carcinogens • radiation • cell phone industry • brain cancer • brain tumor

Jobs Takes Stage at Apple Event, Talks Health, iPods

Some talk of cancer, but mostly tech

Sep 9, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Perhaps as much speculation has surrounded the possible attendance of Apple CEO Steve Jobs at the company’s product event today as what the event will actually be about. The first question is answered, Bloomberg reports: Jobs has made his first public appearance since having a liver transplant during a... More »

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cancer • Steve Jobs • iPhone • Apple • iPod • iTunes Store • consumer electronics • liver transplants • product launch • press event

Virus Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer

Connection may lead to better diagnosis, customized treatment

Sep 7, 09 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Aggressive human prostate cancer cells contain a virus associated with cancer in animals, a discovery that raises hopes for more accurate diagnosis and treatment of the disease, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. "We're not saying this virus causes cancer," cautioned the lead researcher. "The best we can... More »

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cancer • prostate cancer • Columbia University • prostate specific antigen • University of Utah • prostate-specific antigen • PSA test • XMRV

 Lockerbie Bomber Fading Fast 

EU cancer specialists flown in to treat al-Megrahi

Sep 2, 09 2:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The condition of the cancer-stricken Lockerbie bomber has taken a sharp turn for the worse in the last few days, the Times of London reports. "The last check-up was very, very bad. He's dying. He is unable to speak to anyone," said the brother of Abdul Baset Ali... More »

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cancer • Scotland • Libya • government • Moammar Gadhafi • Lockerbie • Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi

 Drug Giants Target Cancer 

Scientific advances, potentially huge profits attract Big Pharma to cancer fight

Sep 2, 09 2:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Major drug companies are tying their fortunes to cancer like never before, the New York Times reports. The firms—inspired by advancements in science as well as the high prices cancer drugs command—are pouring unprecedented resources into the search for new cancer drugs. The drug giants hope cancer treatments... More »

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cancer • pharmaceutical companies • drug companies • Pfizer • cancer research • prescription drugs • pharmaceutical industry • cancer drug

 Ryan Kept Me 
 From Farrah's 
 Deathbed: 
 'Secret Lover' 

'We were blind, crazy in love,' says ex–football player

Aug 30, 09 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of Farrah Fawcett's first loves says he rekindled an 11-year affair with her but was kept from her death bed by Ryan O'Neal. "We were blind, crazy, in love," said former football player Greg Lott. "Farrah was my best friend and my inspiration. I never got... More »

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cancer • Farrah Fawcett • rectal cancer • Ryan O'Neal • Redmond O'Neal • Greg Lott

(Newser) - Thousands of constituents and admirers turned out this afternoon to honor Ted Kennedy as a motorcade bearing the senator's body from his Cape Cod home to his brother's presidential library wound through the streets of Boston. Some wept, some applauded as both locals and out-of-towners flooded to say goodbye. "... More »

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cancer • Boston • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • death • Cape Cod • senator • brain cancer • US Senate • Hyannis Port

APPRECIATION


Kennedy a  
Green Warrior  
Before His Time 


Aug 27, 09 3:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ted Kennedy was a crusader for environmental protection and energy efficiency long before those causes became fashionable. Climate Progress lists his accomplishments:
  • He eliminated the “oil depletion allowance,” which excluded 22% of oil producer’s revenue from taxes.
  • Kennedy created the 2007 American COMPETES Act, which
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cancer • Senate • Ted Kennedy • list • senator

(Newser) - Contrary to what you might have read in the New York Post, Bernie Madoff does not have cancer, Bloomberg reports. “While the N.Y. Post story is full of inaccuracies, and we can’t specifically address all of them, we can tell you that Bernie... More »

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cancer • New York Post • pancreatic cancer • federal prison • Bureau of Prisons • Ponzi scheme • bank fraud • Bernard Madoff • Ira Sorkin • prison sentence

 Madoff 
 Dying of 
 Cancer: 
 Inmates 

Some speculate this is why he took the fall

Aug 24, 09 9:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bernie Madoff may not serve much of his 150-year sentence: The Ponzi schemer is suffering from cancer, fellow inmates tell the New York Post, and has been telling everyone he doesn't have long to live. “He’s been taking about 20 pills a day for his cancer,”... More »

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cancer • prison • jail • pancreatic cancer • Ponzi scheme • Bernard Madoff • Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities

health study

 Go Easy on 
 the Candles 


Aug 21, 09 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don't go overboard on the candles, researchers warn. The fumes of paraffin wax candles can contribute to cancer and asthma, though it would take years of heavy use to cause a problem, the BBC reports. “An occasional paraffin candle and its emissions will not likely affect you,” says... More »

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cancer • research • illness • asthma • health research • candlelight • candle

Obituary



 Robert Novak 
 Dead at 78 

Columnist, known as 'Prince of Darkness,' was 78

Aug 18, 09 11:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservative Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak died this morning at 78, after a year-long battle with brain cancer, the Sun-Times reports. Known, to his delight, as the “Prince of Darkness,” Novak’s “Inside Report” column has been syndicated since 1963. He was at the center... More »

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cancer • Valerie Plame • obituary • Robert Novak • brain cancer

(Newser) - A breakthrough with cancer stem cells may lead to more potent drugs—ones that pair with chemotherapy in the sort of drug cocktail used against AIDS, reports the New York Times. If borne out, the development—in which researchers figured out how to screen for chemicals that attack only cancerous... More »

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cancer • stem cells • chemotherapy • cancer treatment

(Newser) - Trouble at nuclear reactors that produce two-thirds of the world’s medical isotopes have created massive testing delays in the US, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The isotopes, created in Canada and the Netherlands, are used for presurgery stress tests and to locate some cancers; doctors are limping along with... More »

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cancer • surgery • Canada • Netherlands • nuclear reactor • tests • thyroid cancer • radioactive isotopes • medical isotopes • nuclear medicine

Pharma Ghostwriters Penned Medical Papers on HRT

Drug firms may play bigger role than thought in medical lit

Aug 5, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ghostwriters funded by a drug firm were deeply involved in writing papers supporting therapies that helped the firm’s sales boom, court papers show. The 26 scientific papers, published in medical journals from 1998 to 2005, highlighted the benefits of hormone replacement therapy over the risks, a boon to Wyeth,... More »

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cancer • pharmaceutical companies • drug companies • pharma • medical research • lawsuit • Wyeth • side effects • hormone therapy

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