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• Obituaries in the news

  article 2009-08-05  |  Author: Staff
  Charles GwathmeyNEW YORK (AP) — Charles Gwathmey, an architect known for his influential modernist home designs and famous clients like director Steven Spielberg, has died. He was 71.Gwathmey died of cancer Monday in Manhattan, said his stepson, Eric Steel.The architect formed the firm of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates with Robert ...

• 10-year-old SoCal girl copes with breast cancer

  article 2009-06-04  |  Author: Staff
  Ten-year-old Hannah Powell-Auslam is trying to remain brave as she copes with a rare form of breast cancer."I feel like a kid inside but sometimes I feel like an adult, when I'm always at the hospital," Hannah told ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview that aired Wednesday.The ...

• Sunshine, big crowds greet Rose Parade

  article 2009-01-02  |  Author: Solvej Schou
  Spectators who claimed their spots for the Rose Parade hours before it began were rewarded Thursday with spangled dancers paying tribute to Broadway, a lush garden wedding flanked by sari-clad models representing India's Bollywood film industry and a giant robot with a surprise under his hat.A 49-foot-tall mechanical man named ...

• Obituaries in the news

  article 2008-12-06  |  Author: The Associated Press
  Forrest J AckermanLOS ANGELES (AP) — Forrest J Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent and magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term "sci-fi," died Thursday. He was 92.Ackerman died of heart failure at his Los Angeles ...

• Edwards: Passion for health reform keeps me going

  article 2008-10-05  |  Author: Jocelyn Noveck
  Elizabeth Edwards said Saturday that her passion for reforming the nation's health care system has been "a great refuge" for her during the recent turmoil over her husband's extramarital affair.Edwards, who has incurable breast cancer, also said medical tests this week showed that her condition hadn't worsened since ...

• FBI investigates new attacks on Calif. scientists

  article 2008-08-04  |  Author: Marcus Wohlsen
  The FBI is investigating two firebombings targeting scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as the latest in a rash of attacks against biomedical researchers who experiment on animals, authorities said.One scientist and his family, including two small children, were forced to flee from a second-story window ...

• Bone-building drug Zometa fights breast cancer spread, may lead to wider use, doctors say

  article 2008-06-01  |  Author: Marilynn Marchione
  A drug to prevent bone loss during breast cancer treatment also substantially cut the risk that the cancer would return, results that left doctors excited about a possible new way to fight the disease.It is the first large study to affirm wider anti-cancer hopes for Zometa and other ...

• Kennedy has major cancer bill in Senate

  article 2008-05-27  |  Author: Andrew Miga
  Sen. Edward Kennedy's battle with a malignant brain tumor is likely to put a dramatic personal stamp on a health care cause he first championed nearly 40 years ago: The nation's war on cancer.Kennedy had already begun work on an overhaul of the 1971 National Cancer Act when his tumor ...

• Developing world expected to drive cancer drug growth

  article 2008-05-15  |  Author: Matthew Perrone
  The global market for cancer drugs will grow twice as fast as that for all other pharmaceuticals as the developing world spends more on health care, a new report says.China, Brazil, Russia and other emerging countries are becoming bigger customers for pharmaceuticals as they invest more in treating and diagnosing ...

• Teen exercise protects against breast cancer later in life

  article 2008-05-13  |  Author: Lauran Neergaard
  New research shows exercise during the teen years — starting as young as age 12 — can help protect girls from breast cancer after