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  • FOX News Alert: Fred Thompson announces he has Lymphoma ( he is in remission )

    04/11/2007 6:27:06 AM PDT · by tsmith130 · 518 replies · 19,299+ views
    Fox News | 04/11/2007
    Damn! Will be on Fox today with Neil Cavuto.
  • Study Links Aspartame to Cancer (in mice)

    07/28/2005 9:07:32 PM PDT · by gusopol3 · 42 replies · 909+ views
    CBSNews.com ^ | July 28,2005 | Daniel J. DeNoon
    <p>A study of rats links low doses of aspartame -- the sweetener in NutraSweet, Equal, and thousands of consumer products -- to leukemia and lymphoma.</p> <p>But food industry officials point out that many other studies have found no link between aspartame and cancer.</p>
  • Rush Limbaugh: 2005 Cure-A-Thon Raises over $1 Million, Two Listeners Offer to Match Rush's 300K

    04/25/2005 5:26:17 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 43 replies · 1,234+ views
    RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 4/25/05 | Rush Limbaugh
    I know a number of you would like to have an update on our Cure-A-Thon last Friday. We set a record. You people came through. I cannot thank you enough. We set an all-time record. Just as of the close of business on Sunday, the whole weekend, we raised a grand total of over a million dollars, a million sixty-two thousand dollars in three hours on Friday. If you add up the total time in those three hours that we were talking about our Cure-A-Thon, we maybe totaled an hour of the three. You folks are amazing out there, simply...
  • Dog gets stem cell transplant

    04/07/2005 5:11:46 AM PDT · by RedBloodedAmerican · 24 replies · 636+ views
    hosted.ap.org ^ | Apr 7, 7:59 AM EDT | ap
    Dog gets stem cell transplantBAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) -- Darrell and Nina Hallett love their dog Comet and have reached deeply into their wallets to prove it.The couple spent $45,000 on a stem cell transplant for their golden retriever, who is recovering from lymphoma, a type of cancer that attacks the immune system.Dr. Edmund Sullivan, a Bellingham veterinarian, performed the transplant last summer, using stem cells from another golden retriever.Sue Hendrickson, a friend of the Halletts, owns Comet's mother and 11 other dogs. She spent months tracking down 40 of Comet's relatives to donate blood, eventually finding three perfect matches....
  • Rush slams Democrats, receives cheers (Limbaugh appearance/fundraiser in San Jose )

    02/09/2005 1:04:38 AM PST · by CounterCounterCulture · 45 replies · 2,666+ views
    San Jose Mercury News ^ | 8 February 2004 | Brad Kava
    Rush slams Democrats, receives cheers RADIO HOST MAKES FIRST SJ APPEARANCE By Brad Kava Mercury News Preaching optimism and slamming Democrats, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh was greeted like a rock star by a packed San Jose Civic Auditorium audience Tuesday night. ``We are in the midst of a seminal historic shift in this country,'' Limbaugh, 54, told a crowd that paid $40 a ticket and welcomed him with a standing ovation. ``The Democrat party and the media have lost their monopoly. They don't rule the roost anymore.'' Other than one swear word and a slightly off-color story about...
  • Blood Treatment's Promise Mired in Bureaucracy

    05/29/2004 1:08:18 AM PDT · by neverdem · 7 replies · 223+ views
    NY Times ^ | May 29, 2004 | REED ABELSON
    Megan Cardy is one of the lucky ones. Her doctors found a match. Megan was 14 when her leukemia returned. Having already endured chemotherapy, she dreaded the prospect of another long course of treatment. So Megan and her parents decided on a bone-marrow transplant that would provide blood stem cells to enable her body to produce healthy blood. After her doctors spent six months searching the donor lists for stem cells close enough to Megan's own tissue, she got the stem cells she needed — but not from a bone-marrow donor. Instead, the source was umbilical cord blood, a byproduct...
  • Patterns: Smoking: Hazardous to Your Cat

    12/26/2002 8:50:00 AM PST · by dennisw · 39 replies · 969+ views
    nytimes ^ | August 6, 2002 | By JOHN O'NEIL
    Patterns: Smoking: Hazardous to Your CatBy JOHN O'NEIL ats whose owners smoke are up to three times as likely to develop lymphoma, a form of cancer, as cats living with nonsmokers, a new study has found.Dr. Antony S. Moore of the Tufts University Veterinary School, an author of the study, said cats in many ways were better subjects than people for studying secondhand smoke."Cats basically hang around inside the house, so they don't get exposed to as many possible environmental hazards," he said. "You can often smell the smoke on their fur, and when you consider that they're grooming...