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Judge OKs Challenge to Human Gene Patents

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - Nov. 03 (News Report) - A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and a research company awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast or ovarian cancer. The first-of-its-kind lawsuit

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Naomi Starkman: Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Canned Soups, Juice, and More

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Naomi Starkman - Nov. 02 (Investigative Report) - BPA, which has been used for years in clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, has been restricted in Canada and some U.S. states and municipalities because it has been linked to a wide array of health effects including reproductive abnormalities, heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease.

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Real "Norma Rae" Dies of Cancer After Insurer Delayed Treatment

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Sue Sturgis - Sep. 16 (News Report) - The North Carolina union organizer who was the inspiration for the movie "Norma Rae" died on Friday of brain cancer after a battle with her insurance company, which delayed her treatment. She was 68.

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Clean Water Laws Are Neglected, at a Cost to Health

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Charles Duhigg - Sep. 13 (Special Report) - In the past five years, companies and workplaces have violated pollution laws more than 500,000 times. But the vast majority of polluters have escaped punishment.

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AFP: Study finds pesticide link to childhood leukemia

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - Jul. 30 (News Report) - Patients with childhood leukemia have elevated levels of household pesticides in their urine, according to a new study by the Georgetown University Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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Tanning beds rated as top-tier cancer risk

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

healthzone.ca - By Megan Ogilvie - Jul. 29 (News Report) - Tanning beds are as deadly as mustard gas, arsenic, plutonium and other known carcinogens, international cancer experts have ruled.

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Red Meat & Dairy Linked to Cancer

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Melissa Breyer - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - In a recent study published in the internationally acclaimed Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers examined the association between the intake of red meat and dairy products and pancreatic cancer by analyzing a cohort of over 500,000 people from the National Institutes of Health–AARP Diet and Health Study. Participants completed a food frequency questionnaire in 1995 and 1996 and were followed prospectively for an average of 6 years to track a variety of health outcomes, including pancreatic cancer. Men and women who consumed high amounts of total fats had 53 percent and 23 percent higher relative rates of pancreatic cancer, respectively,

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Economic Scene - Health Reform’s Acid Test - Prostate Cancer - NYTimes.com

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By David Leonhardt - Jul. 08 (News Report) - It’s become popular to pick your own personal litmus test for health care reform. A proton therapy center under construction outside Chicago. The treatment’s proton accelerator can be as big as a football field. For some liberals, reform will be a success only if it includes a new government-run insurance plan to compete with private insurers. For many conservatives, a bill must exclude such a public plan. For others, the crucial issue is how much money Congress spends covering the uninsured. My litmus test is different. It’s the prostate cancer test.

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Weed killer kills human cells. Study intensifies debate over 'inert' ingredients.

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

environmentalhealthnews.org - By Crystal Gammon - Jun. 22 (Special Report) - Until now, most health studies have focused on the safety of glyphosate, rather than the mixture of ingredients found in Roundup. But in the new study, scientists found that Roundup’s inert ingredients amplified the toxic effect on human cells—even at concentrations much more diluted than those used on farms and lawns. One specific inert ingredient, polyethoxylated tallowamine, or POEA, was more deadly to human embryonic, placental and umbilical cord cells than the herbicide itself – a finding the researchers call “astonishing.”

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Sequim woman first known assisted-suicide patient in state

Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

seattlepi.com - By Vanessa Ho - May. 22 (News Report) - Fleming, who had worked with homeless and mentally ill people, was diagnosed with the advanced cancer roughly a month ago. Soon after, she made her first of three required requests to receive medication under the Death with Dignity Act, said her friend, Virginia Peterhansen.

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Radiation Exposure from 50 Years of Uranium Mining Continues to Affect Spokane Indian Reservation

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Twa-le Abrahamson - Apr. 21 (Special Report) - The Spokane Reservation is about forty-five miles northwest of the city of Spokane. And when the mines opened, the workforce was largely tribal people, and a lot of women worked in the mines at that time. And so, we’ve heard a lot of stories of women that worked there that were placed in certain positions because they were over childbearing age. And we’ve lost a lot of our people to illnesses related to—which we feel are related to the mine and the contaminants at the mine.

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Urine test predicts smokers' lung cancer risk : Scientific American Blog

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Coco Ballantyne - Apr. 20 (Special Report) - Researchers have discovered that smokers who excrete high levels of two tobacco metabolites (chemicals produced when the body breaks down tobacco) in their urine are up to 8.5 times more likely than those who excrete low levels to develop lung cancer. "If we can identify a smoker with a high level of metabolites, and down the road they have a higher risk of lung cancer, public health workers can get them motivated to quit smoking,” lead researcher Jian-Min Yuan, a cancer epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, told Bloomberg News.

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Promising Test for Dendreon's Prostate Cancer Drug

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Andrew Pollack - Apr. 14 (Special Report) - A prostate cancer drug developed by the Seattle biotechnology company Dendreon prolonged the lives of men in a decisive clinical trial, the company announced Tuesday morning. The widely anticipated results could pave the way for the drug, called Provenge, to become the first so-called therapeutic cancer “vaccine” to win approval in the United States after numerous failures of such drugs. “This looks like a proof of concept that cancer vaccines can and do work,” said Jeffrey Schlom, an expert on the vaccines at the National Cancer Institute. Such vaccines work by harnessing the patient’s own immune system to fight the cancer.

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France to pay nuclear test victims

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Mar. 24 (News Report) - France carried out 210 tests in the Sahara Desert and the South Pacific, including Mururoa and Fangataufa, French Polynesian islands, from 1960 to 1996. Pierre Leroy, a French army veteran, said he was present when a nuclear test misfired in the Sahara in 1962. "We were 19, 20 years old. They told us, 'There are no risks, it's not dangerous'. There were no precautions," he said. Staff who took part in the French tests, as well as residents of areas close to the testing zones, have long complained of health consequences including leukemia and other forms of cancer.

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Cancer screening: Doing more harm than good?

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reader's Digest - By Shannon Brownlee - Mar. 12 (News Report) - They say that yearly mammograms are not nearly as effective at reducing the risk of dying of breast cancer as most women think, and that mammography leads many women to get unnecessary treatment -- especially those diagnosed with DCIS.

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Black Women's Health: 4 Ways to Boost It

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

U.S. News & World Report - By January W. Payne - Feb. 23 (Special Report) - Two new publications, The Black Woman's Guide to Healthy Living and the American Cancer Society's report "Cancer Facts & Figures for African Americans," shine a spotlight squarely on black women's health. And for good reason: They're more likely than white women to succumb to top killers. African-American women are 35 percent more likely to die from heart disease, for example, according to the National Women's Health Information Center. African-Americans overall don't get the same level of heart disease care as whites because they don't undergo the same tests and treatments.

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Carcinogens found in marine life in island of Vieques in Puerto Rico

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

caribbeannetnews.com - By María Miranda Sierra - Feb. 21 (Special Report) - “Unexploded bombs are in the ocean for a variety of reasons – some were duds that did not explode, others were dumped in the ocean as a means of disposal,” Porter said in a written statement. “And we now know that these munitions are leaking cancer-causing materials and endangering sea life.”

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Chromium carcinogenic in water; new standard in the works

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

environmentalhealthnews.org - By Marla Cone - Feb. 20 (News Report) - National Toxicology Program scientists reported that their two-year animal study “clearly demonstrates” that the compound is carcinogenic in drinking water. Mice and rats contracted malignant tumors in their small intestines and mouths when they drank water containing several different doses of hexavalent chromium.

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Cancer Death Rates Decline Among Blacks, But Disparities Linger

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

U.S. News & World Report - Feb. 18 (News Report) - Black Americans' cancer death rates continue to decline, an American Cancer Society report released Wednesday. However, they are still diagnosed at more advanced stages of cancer than whites, the report's authors note, and blacks have lower survival rates at each stage of diagnosis of most types of cancers.

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Obama Cancer Plan Must Prioritize Prevention

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

world-wire.com - Feb. 17 (News Report) - President Barack Obama is the first President to develop a comprehensive cancer plan. While the plan reflects strong emphasis on oncology, the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, no reference is made to prevention. Yet, the more cancer that can be prevented, the less there is to treat.

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Panel: EPA Must Consider Effects of Chemical Barrage

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Liz Szabo - Dec. 19 (News Report) - Although the report focused primarily on phthalates, Cory-Slechta note that other products, such as pesticides used in food, also lower testosterone levels. Animal and human studies link all of these chemicals to a wide spectrum of problems, from reduced sperm counts to genital malformations. Scientists are also studying the chemicals' link to testicular cancer and other problems, the report says.

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The 13-years-old said She Wants To Die With Dignity

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

allvoices.com - By Hardtalk - Nov. 13 (News Report) - Hannah Jones, 13 years old, terminally-ill teenage has won the right to die after she was taken court by her local hospital in an attempt to force her to have a heart transplant against her wishes.

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For cancer patients, personalized treatment offers a new range of options -- and hope

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Shari Roan - Oct. 21 (Special Report) - Personalized medicine is gaining momentum in many areas of treatment...."Cancer is a disease which has been misnamed," (Dr. Robert) Figlin says. "It's not a disease. It's hundreds of diseases."

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New Screening Tool for Breast Cancer Better Than Mammography

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

azfamily.com - By Brandy Aguilar - Oct. 18 (News Report) - Recently, actress Christina Applegate spoke about her own breast cancer battle on Oprah. She said, “My doctor said that mammogram was not enough because of the density of my breasts, so he suggested I get an MRI. It came back positive, you don't think it's going to happen to me.” Now the Mayo Clinic has a better way to test for tumors that could save your life. It is called molecular breast imaging and initial studies at Mayo Clinic show this new screening tool for breast cancer is better than...

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Ovarian Cancer Test Sales Are Illegal, FDA Warns

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Melinda Beck - Oct. 08 (News Report) - The Food and Drug Administration warned clinical test giant Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings that it was marketing an ovarian cancer test in violation of the law, vindicating skeptics of the assay who worried it wasn't ready for prime time. OvaSure, developed by researchers at Yale School of Medicine, measures six proteins in blood samples and calculates the chances that the woman has ovarian cancer. LabCorp, as the Burlington N.C., company is known, made the $220 test available in June, under a provision that exempts tests developed and offered by a single lab from the usual FDA review. But in a letter dated Sept. 29 and released Tuesday, the FDA determined that because the test was developed at Yale and that parts of it were manufactured elsewhere, it must meet the agency's usual premarketing approval requirements, which could take up to a year.

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