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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - (October 20, 2007) — This weekend should top Maria Nevarez's last trip to the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md. "They asked her to name the one thing in the world that she would really like to do," her mother, Kate Nevarez, says of the ...

Philadelphia Inquirer - Nearly 1,000 people – including Wallace's 9-year-old son, who died from brain cancer - are buried in the one-acre cemetery, which backs up to a woods between the church and a row of townhouses. Planners have proposed to depress the highway six feet ...

Newsday - And he reveled in the everyday development of the little girl who was born one month after he became a Yankee and whose existence was a source of inspiration while he recuperated from prostate cancer surgery in 1999. "The one good thing that came from ...

Oregonian - Now she is, to his horror, disfigured physically and mentally by brain cancer. As a younger man, Zuckerman would have taken on all of these characters with bold confidence. But he's not up to the task anymore. As coping mechanisms, he imagines the ...

San Francisco Gate - She is running with Team in Training, a group operated by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society that raises money for cancer research. Many of the athletes in marathons still fit the stereotype of a long-distance runner: a lean, wiry frame molded for ...

Forbes - Adult stem cells are the subject of hundreds of clinical studies to develop novel therapies for such intractable diseases as cancer, heart disease, multiple sclerosis and many others. About American Stock Exchange The American Stock Exchange(R ...

Forbes - PARIS (Thomson Financial) - Sanofi-Aventis cancer-fighting Taxotere drug has received approval from a committee of the European Medicines Agency for use in combination with other drugs for treatment of patients with locally advanced head and neck ...

Bloomberg - Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Roche Holding AG, the world's biggest maker of cancer medicines, won Japanese approval of its Tarceva drug as a treatment for the most common form of lung tumor. Regulators cleared the use of Tarceva in patients with non- small ...

Forbes - ZURICH (Thomson Financial) - Roche Holdings AG said its lung cancer drug Tarceva has been approved in Japan to treat a form of lung cancer which is aggravated following chemotherapy. The drug will be launched in Japan by early 2008. The approval was ...

Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The subtitle for this original telefilm from Lifetime Television is "The Irreverent Story of Searching for Mr. Right." If this sounds confusing, so is the story line. There's an often uncomfortable mix of emotions ...