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Washington Post
TV Special Raises Big Money For Cancer Research
WBT - 2 hours ago
AP If you watched ABC, CBS, or NBC on Friday night, you witnessed a first. The three competing networks banded together and aired a special program to raise money for cancer research.
Rival Anchors Stand Up To Cancer eFluxMedia
Katie Couric teams with rival anchors to 'Stand Up to Cancer' Los Angeles Times
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Media bias and vaccine compliance
ZDNet Blogs - 3 hours ago
Having been a reporter for over 30 years I freely admit there is a media bias. Of course that’s not our bias. It’s yours. Without conflict, you don’t want to read what we write.
Do Measles Vaccines Put Children at Risk for Autism? eFluxMedia
Comment by Kim Stagliano Managing Editor, Age of Autism
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We Fought Cancer…And Cancer Won
HealthNewsDigest.com - 5 hours ago
By Sharon Begley - Newsweek After billions spent on research and decades of hit-or-miss treatments, it's time to rethink the war on cancer.
What You Need to Know About Mapping the Cancer Genome U.S. News & World Report
Major Breakthrough in Cancer Research, a Promising Way to Study Cancer eFluxMedia
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USA Today
MRIs Don't Improve Breast Cancer Care, Outcome
Washington Post - 5 hours ago
By Amanda Gardner SATURDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Women who receive an MRI after a new diagnosis of breast cancer not only delay the start of treatment, but they are also more likely to have a mastectomy, as opposed to breast-conserving surgery.
Do MRIs help or hurt breast cancer patients? USA Today
Routine Use Of MRI Scans To Evaluate Breast Cancer Challenged Science Daily (press release)
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
Health Highlights: Sept. 6, 2008
Washington Post - 5 hours ago
On the heels of the huge nationwide salmonella outbreak that caused more than 1400 illnesses from Mexican peppers, a regional Oregon alfalfa sprout distributor has recalled its product in Oregon and Washington state after the sprouts were linked to 13 ...
Salmonellosis outbreak prompts sprout recall Forbes
Salmonella outbreak traced to alfalfa sprouts Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Canada.com
MRIs Don't Improve Breast Cancer Care, Outcome
Washington Post - 3 hours ago
By Amanda Gardner SATURDAY, Sept. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Women who receive an MRI after a new diagnosis of breast cancer not only delay the start of treatment, but they are also more likely to have a mastectomy, as opposed to breast-conserving surgery.
Breast MRIs delay cancer treatment by weeks: study Reuters
Do MRIs help or hurt breast cancer patients? USA Today
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DigitalJournal.com
Health Highlights: Sept. 7 2008
U.S. News & World Report - 3 hours ago
On the heels of the huge nationwide salmonella outbreak that caused more than 1400 illnesses from Mexican peppers, a regional Oregon alfalfa sprout distributor has recalled its product in Oregon and Washington state after the sprouts were linked to 13 ...
Salmonellosis outbreak prompts sprout recall Forbes
Salmonella outbreak traced to alfalfa sprouts Seattle Post Intelligencer
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Enews 2.0
Flame Retardant Chemicals: Toxic For Kids?
NBC4i.com - 7 hours ago
By Angie Hissong --For years special chemicals called flame retardants have been used in household items like couches and televisions to prevent them from catching fire.
Toxic chemicals found 3 times higher in young children than their ... Food Consumer
Fire retardant chemical found in children Reuters
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Enews 2.0
Flame Retardant Chemicals: Toxic For Kids?
NBC4i.com - 4 hours ago
By Angie Hissong --For years special chemicals called flame retardants have been used in household items like couches and televisions to prevent them from catching fire.
Fire Retardants Found in Children's Blood WebMD
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eFluxMedia
Do Measles Vaccines Put Children at Risk for Autism?
eFluxMedia - 6 hours ago
By Alice Carver Scientists found that there is no link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, also known as MMR vaccine, and autism.
Autism and measles vaccine: no link found -- again Los Angeles Times
Comment by Kim Stagliano Managing Editor, Age of Autism
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Hartford Courant
Rival Anchors Stand Up To Cancer
eFluxMedia - 8 hours ago
By Dianna Cooper On Friday, three network news anchors teamed up in a massive campaign aimed to raise funds to develop breakthroughs that will put an end to cancer, CBS reported on its Web site.
Katie Couric teams with rival anchors to 'Stand Up to Cancer' Los Angeles Times
Survivors Enjoy Watching 'Stand Up To Cancer' cbs4denver.com
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Halverson in 'terrible pain' at Sunrise Hospital
Las Vegas Review - Journal - 8 hours ago
By LAWRENCE MOWER Suspended District Judge Elizabeth Halverson remained at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center Saturday evening after what police described as an attempt on her life by her husband.
The Strange Saga of Judge Halverson KLAS-TV
Husband of suspended Las Vegas judge jailed San Jose Mercury News
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Tinley holding off on plans for health campus
Southtown Star - 8 hours ago
BY KRISTEN SCHORSCH Staff writer Tinley Park had big plans three years ago for a more than 200-acre slice of land at Harlem Avenue and 183rd Street when Gov.
'The best care' over? Chicago Sun-Times
State changing mental health services Chicago Tribune
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Tinley holding off on plans for health campus
Southtown Star - 12 hours ago
BY KRISTEN SCHORSCH Staff writer Tinley Park had big plans three years ago for a more than 200-acre slice of land at Harlem Avenue and 183rd Street when Gov.
Howe Developmental Center in Tinley Park to close Chicago Tribune
'The best care' over? Chicago Sun-Times
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Enews 2.0
Tuberculosis patient put in medical isolation
San Jose Mercury News - 13 hours ago
AP SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.—San Bernardino county officials say they have forced a tuberculosis patient into medical isolation after health officials suspected the patient was not taking medication and was going to work.
TB patient is forced into medical isolation in San Bernardino County Los Angeles Times
TB patient ordered confined Contra Costa Times
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WKRG-TV
Michigan spared sting of West Nile
Detroit Free Press - 12 hours ago
BY SHERI McWHIRTER • RECORD-EAGLE • September 7, 2008 TRAVERSE CITY -- West Nile virus hasn't seriously bitten Michigan this year and seems to have spared the state's northern reaches.
Yes, the mosquitoes were nasty this summer Yakima Herald-Republic
Aerial survey being conducted to find mosquito breeding grounds San Jose Mercury News
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LAist
Michigan spared sting of West Nile
Detroit Free Press - 14 hours ago
BY SHERI McWHIRTER • RECORD-EAGLE • September 7, 2008 TRAVERSE CITY -- West Nile virus hasn't seriously bitten Michigan this year and seems to have spared the state's northern reaches.
Aerial survey being conducted to find mosquito breeding grounds San Jose Mercury News
Yes, the mosquitoes were nasty this summer Yakima Herald-Republic
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Robert Novak column describes cancer treatment
The Associated Press - 20 hours ago
CHICAGO (AP) - Since being diagnosed with brain cancer, Robert Novak has lost partial vision and undergone surgery to remove a tumor, the conservative political commentator wrote in a column published Saturday.
Robert Novak column describes cancer treatment Chicago Tribune
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eFluxMedia
Toxic chemicals found 3 times higher in young children than their ...
Food Consumer - Sep 6, 2008
By Ben Wasserman Saturday September 5, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- A study of chemical fire retardants in parents and their children showed toddlers and pre-schoolers had 3 times more the neurotoxic pollutants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers ...
Fire retardant chemical found in children Reuters
Fire Retardants Found in Children's Blood WebMD
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Genome analysis used to decode brain cancer: study
AFP - Sep 6, 2008
PARIS (AFP) - US scientists have unveiled the most complete genetic profile ever attempted of glioblastoma, a common and deadly form of the brain cancer that US Senator Edward Kennedy is battling.
We Fought Cancer…And Cancer Won HealthNewsDigest.com
In Long-Awaited Maps of Cancer, The Breakthrough Is the Problem Wall Street Journal
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