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Save a life with a simple cheek swab
WDBJ7 Multimedia JournalistA student organization at Virginia Tech, Good to the Bone, is hosting Be the Match Bone Marrow Registration Drive on Wednesday, April 10th in Torgersen Hall (1100) at 620 Drillfield Drive on campus. Now you can take the first step to save a life by...Tags: Virginia Tech, Leukemia, Ceremonies, Diseases and Illnesses, Arts and Culture
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UPDATED: Roanoke tribute to jazz legend helps to build bone marrow registry
ReporterMarch 25th update: The search for potential bone marrow donors in Roanoke was a success. 273 people signed up and provided cheek swabs for the national bone marrow registry during events last week. The Jefferson Center coordinated the effort, with a...Tags: Virginia Tech, Branford Marsalis, Leukemia, Entertainment, Music
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LaVille teachers raising "Pennies for Patients"
It's going to get a little chilly Thursday night, especially for Jodi Kayser and Lacy Buck. The LaVille teachers are spending the evening on the roof of the school for “Pennies for Patients.” The students made their goal of raising $1,600,...
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How I became a tree hugger
Contributing Writer“What are you doing, Dad?” my son asked when he called me on his cell phone. I was sitting on our back patio, admiring the work I’d done, having just planted the first third of my garden with the non-genetically modified seeds I had oh-...Tags: Tomatoes, Occupy Wall Street, Genetic Engineering
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Headlines for Thursday, May 23, 2013
GODSMACK: Sully Gets Own Guitar
Godsmack frontman Sully Erna is the latest musician to get his own signature guitar.
Gibson's Sully Erna Les Paul Studio model is ebony black with a Godsmack sun emblem on the body...Tags: What Happens in Vegas (movie), Cypress Hill (music group), Third Eye Blind (music group), Stan Lee, Services and Shopping
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Douglas E. Rubeck Sr., 58
Douglas Eugene Rubeck Sr., 58, of Hagerstown, Md., died Monday, May 20, 2013, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., and entered into his eternal home in Heaven. Born July 20, 1954, in Washington County, Md., he was the son of Anna Mae Bartles...
Tags: Leukemia, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Reformed
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Is Bacon Really Too Dangerous for Human Consumption?
HealthLike many people, I get a lot of my news from social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. For instance, if I had not checked Facebook yesterday, I would not have known about the destructive tornado in Oklahoma until I read about it in this morning&#... -
Pfizer halts study of lymphoma drug unlikely to help survival
ReutersMay 20 (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc, which has been on a hot streak with three recent approvals of cancer drugs, stumbled on Monday, saying it was halting a late-stage trial of a drug for aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma after independent monitors found it was...Tags: Cancer, Food and Drug Administration, Biotechnology, Leukemia, Oncology
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Greencastle Relay for Life is a time to 'celebrate, remember and to fight back'
roxann.miller@herald-mail.comTina Schaubroeck of Greencastle walked around the track at Kaley Field with a renewed pep in her step during the American Cancer Society’s 19th Annual Greencastle Relay for Life on Saturday. “I just found out this past March that I am free of...Tags: Cancer, Elementary Schools, Health Organizations, Leukemia, American Cancer Society
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Joseph A. Lillis, 62
Joseph Anthony Lillis, 62, of Boonsboro, Md., passed from this life on Thursday, May 16, 2013, at his home while surrounded by his family. Born on Aug. 16, 1950, in Jersey City, N.J., he is the son of Mary (Coaches) Lillis of Brick, N.J., and the late...Tags: Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Leukemia, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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New cancer tools allow patients to reconsider chemo
ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - After decades of using one-size-fits-all therapies to combat cancer, doctors are using new tools to help decide when their patients can skip chemotherapy or other harsh treatments. An approach to oncology that has been in place...Tags: Xalkori (drug), Leukemia, Skin Cancer, Vitamin A, Medical Research
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Creative arts may ease cancer-related anxiety, pain
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Music, art and dance therapy may relieve anxiety and similar symptoms among people with cancer, according to a new analysis of past studies. Researchers who analyzed results from trials conducted between 1989 and 2011 said the...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Leukemia, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Medical Research, Symptoms
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