Latest Health Articles for Brain Cancer

• Kennedy is gone, but health care still his issue

  article 2009-09-10  |  Author: Laurie Kellman
  Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is gone, but his words echoed through the House chamber Wednesday as President Barack Obama tried to prod recalcitrant Democrats and Republicans into finishing the late senator's life work — overhauling the nation's health care system."'Soon, very soon, affordable health coverage will be available to all, ...

• Sen. Kennedy sent letter on health care to Obama

  article 2009-09-10  |  Author: Staff
  Sen. Edward Kennedy expressed confidence that a health care overhaul would pass this year in a letter delivered posthumously to President Barack Obama.In his speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night, Obama said Kennedy's letter was among many he had received from "Americans counting on us to succeed."The ...

• Kerry says he'll carry on Kennedy health care push

  article 2009-09-03  |  Author: Steve Leblanc
  Sen. John Kerry said Wednesday he would take up one of Sen. Edward Kennedy's key political fights, pledging to the thousands who attended his town hall meeting to push for the health care overhaul championed by his longtime Democratic colleague.More than 2,000 people turned up for Kerry's first public meeting ...

• Excerpts of Kennedy letter to pope and response

  article 2009-08-30  |  Author: The Associated Press
  Excerpts of the letter from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy that President Barack Obama delivered to Pope Benedict XVI earlier this year and an account of the pope's response, as read by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington:"Most Holy Father I asked President Obama to personally hand deliver this ...

• Reid joins Biden, Pelosi in misstatements

  article 2009-05-20  |  Author: Laurie Kellman
  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid became the latest Democrat to stray into rhetorical trouble Tuesday, botching statements on three subjects in one news conference — including the fragile health of the chamber's most senior members.The Nevada Democrat reported that one of them, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was absent because he ...

• Ailing Kennedy addresses Democratic convention

  article 2008-08-26  |  Author: Walter R. Mears
  His voice firm, his wave familiar, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy told a cheering Democratic National Convention Monday night that his is "a season of hope" for an era of justice and fair prosperity with the election of Barack Obama as president.Kennedy spoke of the future and said he means to ...

• Sen. Kennedy returns home to sail following brain cancer surgery

  article 2008-06-10  |  Author: Glen Johnson
  Fresh from his hospitalization for an aggressive surgery on a cancerous brain tumor, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy announced it was "good to be home" at his family's Massachusetts compound Monday and headed out for a sail.Kennedy left the Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, on Monday morning and ...

• Costa, Ford and Burch are fashion's big winners

  article 2008-06-03  |  Author: Samantha Critchell
  Francisco Costa, Tom Ford and Tory Burch were the big winners at Monday night's Council of Fashion Designer of America awards, the industry's top honor.Costa, designer for Calvin Klein, was beckoned to the podium by actress Eva Mendes, who had presented the prize alongside Victoria Beckham and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Each ...

• Study: US children's cancer rates highest in Northeast, lowest in South, but still rare

  article 2008-06-02  |  Author: Lindsey Tanner
  Surprising research suggests that childhood cancer. ...

• Ted Kennedy is found to have cancerous brain tumor

  article 2008-05-21  |  Author: Glen Johnson
  For much of his life, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has taken on the role of caregiver, watching over his extended family after tragedies, pushing for sweeping health care, retirement and education legislation, answering the phone to field the concerns of a constituent.Now he is the one in need after being ...