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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gut Microbe Strikes Again: Ulcer-Causing Bug May Also Prevent Cancer

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Barbara Juncosa - Oct. 06 (Special Report) - The common ulcer-causing bug linked this summer to reduced rates of childhood asthma and allergies may also help protect adults against one type of cancer, according to a new analysis. Researchers report today in the journal Cancer Prevention Research that they found the stomach microbe Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) may help prevent a major form of cancer of the esophagus (the muscular tube that carries food and drink from the throat to the stomach).

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Low-level nuclear waste piles up at hospitals

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Seanna Adcox - Sep. 26 (Special Report) - For years, truckloads of low-level nuclear waste from most of the U.S. were taken to a rural South Carolina landfill. There, items such as the rice-size radioactive seeds for treating cancer and pencil-thin nuclear tubes used in industrial gauges were sealed in concrete and buried. But a South Carolina law that took effect July 1 ended nearly all disposal of radioactive material at the landfill, leaving 36 states with no place to throw out some of the stuff. So labs, universities, hospitals and manufacturers are storing more and more of it.

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Cell phone cancer risk debated

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Tom Paulson - Aug. 04 (Special Report) - More than a decade ago, the University of Washington's Henry Lai and his colleague Narenda "N.P." Singh reported that cell phones appear to emit enough electromagnetic radiation to cause the kind of DNA damage to brain cells that can lead to cancer. Few paid much attention, and mobile phone use exploded. But the UW scientists said they became targets of an industry strategy aimed at discrediting and suppressing studies raising health concerns about cell phone radiation. "They even wrote letters to the UW trying to get me fired," said Lai, a gentle man who laughs easily despite being on the losing side in a war between business and science.

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Cancer institute warns of cellphone risks

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - Jul. 25 (News Report) - The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cellphone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

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Cheney's Office Said to Edit Draft Testimony

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Andrew C Revkin - Jul. 09 (News Report) - Marc Morano, a spokesman for James M. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican and the ranking minority member on the Senate environment committee, also said the criticism was unjustified. "All administrations edit testimony before it is submitted to Congress," he said, describing incidents during the Clinton administration involving Roy W. Spencer, a NASA scientist at the time who questioned the dangers of human-caused warming. Mr. Spencer said his superiors told him not to express his views about the dangers of global warming in testimony.

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New Bullseye for Cancer Treatment: A Gene Called KRAS

Fri, 30 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Jacob Goldstein - May. 30 (News Report) - a growing body of evidence suggests that cancers with the standard form of this gene respond better to an important class of cancer drugs than tumors with a common mutation of the gene.

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The mountain that lost its top

Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - May. 20 (Special Report) - "The coal industry is an outlaw industry that does not consider the rights of its neighbours or the rights of the land and environment. The industry is out to make a profit and has no regard for the damages done to the citizens of this country," Mr Morgan said.

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Appeals court hears challenge to uranium mine

Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Ben Neary - May. 12 (News Report) - Federal judges expressed surprise Monday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued permits to allow a company to leach uranium out of an aquifer that supplies drinking water to thousands of Navajos in New Mexico. Local groups are challenging the NRC's approval of permits for Hydro Resources Inc., a New Mexico company, to operate in-situ mines near the Navajo communities of Crownpoint and Church Rock in western New Mexico. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Monday in what lawyers say is the first-ever challenge to the NRC's approval of licenses for an in-situ uranium mining operation.

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All in the Stroma: Cancer's Cosa Nostra

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Science - By Jean Marx - Apr. 05 (News Report) - Cancer biologists have recently been coming to grips with the fact that tumor cells get a lot of help from the cells around them. Such collusion is not the source of disease: More than 30 years of research have shown that mutations in a cell's own DNA initiate the changes that put it on its destructive path. But "people are realizing that the tumor environment is a coconspirator," says Zena Werb of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). "There's been a clear shift in interest."

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Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Geoffrey Lean - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.

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Radioactive Remains

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Times - By Warren Cornwall - Feb. 24 (Special Report) - Sherman Alexie was a teenager when he first felt threatened by the uranium mines near his home on the Spokane Indian Reservation. His grandmother had died from esophageal cancer in 1980. A few years later, his mother and some other tribal members took out a road map and began marking red dots on every home where someone had cancer. The roads where the ore trucks rumbled by were pocked with red.

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'Cancer link' to heavy mobile use

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Feb. 18 (News Report) - Researchers looked at 500 Israelis who had developed the condition and compared their mobile phone usage with 1,300 healthy controls. Those who had used the phone against one side of the head for several hours a day were 50% more likely to have developed a salivary gland tumour. The research appeared in The American Journal of Epidemiology.

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CDC under investigation over Katrina cancer risk

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Atlanta Journal - By Alison Young - Feb. 08 (News Report) - A congressional committee is investigating "disturbing allegations" that officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suppressed critical information about cancer dangers posed by trailers housing Hurricane Katrina victims. The committee also is looking into whether the Atlanta scientist who sought to make the risks public has been the subject of retaliation by the agency.

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