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Saint Joseph's turns to the East
It is now East meets West for cancer patients at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center, which recently started offering acupuncture and other supplementary treatments through a new educational partnership.
Interns from Emperor's College of...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Health, Health Treatments, Healthcare Provider, Acupuncture
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American Cancer Society Increases Funding to $5.5 Million for Illinois Researchers
TribLocal - EvanstonIllinois scientists at the forefront of cancer research will receive more than $5.5 million from the Illinois Division of the American Cancer Society this year. …... -
Children with rare brain disease improve after gene therapy
Florida Jewish JournalUsing gene transfer techniques pioneered by University of Florida faculty, Taiwanese doctors have restored some movement in four children bedridden with a rare, life-threatening neurological disease. The first-in-humans achievement may also be helpful...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Health and Safety at School, Genetic Engineering, University of Florida, Medical Specialization
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Websites let friends better help friends in need
Kelly Gorder of Boulder, Colo., initially felt helpless when she learned last year that longtime friend Naomi Damask, of Chicago, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Gorder wanted to do something for Damask and her family, but the distance made it...
Tags: Email, Facebook, Health, Health Treatments, Chemotherapy
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Columbia firm is world's first to market with stem cell drug
A Columbia-based biotechnology company said this week it received the world’s first government approval to market a stem cell drug, in Canada. Osiris Therapeutics, founded in 1992, spent 17 years developing a stem cell therapy that offers anti-...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, University of Maryland, College Park, Biotechnology Industry, Trials, Drug Trafficking
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General Assembly raises income tax on top 14 percent
It took three carefully scripted days, but Maryland's ruling Democrats finally put in place the budget deal that eluded them in the waning hours of the state's regular session last month.
The revenue package approved by the House on Wednesday will...Tags: Career and Workplace, Elections, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Personal Income, Pension and Welfare
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A crime against motherhood
My mom's first day of motherhood was one of the happiest of her life. It was also one of the worst. She had accompanied my dad from Sri Lanka to Washington State University in 1968, so he could complete his doctorate as a Fulbright Scholar. The school...
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Bone marrow drive to aid retired Parkland teacher
The efforts of a school community could save the life of a beloved teacher or one of the tens of thousands of people in need of a bone marrow transplant.
Parkland High School is hosting a bone marrow drive Saturday during its Festival of the Arts in...Tags: Bone Marrow, Whitehall, John Ritter, Flu, Health
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Hopkins engineer students create devices to help keep babies alive
Johns Hopkins University Engineering students unveiled devices Monday that they hope will lower the number of still births and deaths from fever-related illnesses in developing countries. FeverPoint is a screening test that uses a cotton thread and a...Tags: Chemicals, Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Pneumonia, Health
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Local biotech firm wins grant to develop vaccines for two viruses
Profectus BioSciences Inc., a Baltimore-based biotechnology company, said Wednesday that it won a $5.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the development of a vaccine for a pair of contagious and deadly viruses that the U.S....Tags: Health and Safety at School, Economy, Business and Finance, Health, Australia, Education
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Standing wheelchair fit for the operating room
WGN NewsA standing wheelchair. It's not the first of its kind, but it will go where no others have. It's a project five University of Wisconsin at Madison students embraced -- more than a thousand hours in the making and a chance to change the life of a surgeon...Tags: Health, Teaching and Learning, Hospitals and Clinics, Skype, Biotechnology Industry
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Virgen's View: Boy with brain tumor honored as part of UCI team
There wasn't a big match to be played on Tuesday, but a member of the UC Irvine men's volleyball team remained nervous for an important event dealing with the Anteaters. If you were at the celebration ceremony to honor the UCI team's national...
Tags: Health, Health Treatments, Volleyball, Chemotherapy, Human Body
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