Chest health - Getting younger every year has its perks

Getting younger every year has its perks
Arkansas News Bureau - Grandma is 14 going on 13. When I was a child, my grandfather threw a big party for my grandmother's 50th birthday. Grandma announced then and there that she was going to move forward by going backwards. The very next year, she celebrated her 49th

'Babylon 5' star Andreas Katsulas, 59, dies
San Bernardino County Sun - LOS ANGELES - Veteran character actor Andreas Katsulas, immortalized as imposing red-eyed alien ambassador G'Kar on television's "Babylon 5" and a one-armed murderer in the 1993 film "The Fugitive," has died of lung cancer. He was 59. Katsulas, who

'Babylon 5' and 'Fugitive' star Andreas Katsulas, 59, dies
KESQ News - LOS ANGELES Veteran character actor Andreas Katsulas has died. His agent says Katsulas, who had been undergoing chemotherapy treatments for lung cancer, died in his Los Angeles home February 13th. Katsulas was immortalized as imposing red-eyed alien

Gloversville man sentenced for clean air violations
Empire State News - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced Friday that Anthony Mongato 41, of Gloversville, NY, was sentenced in United States District Court in Syracuse, NY by Judge Howard Munson. In 2002 Mongato pled guilty to a

Advaxis' Listeria Cancer Vaccine Receives Regulatory Approval for
dBusinessNews.com - New York - North Brunswick, NJ, February 21, 2006, Advaxis, Inc. (OTCBB: ADXS) announced that regulators have allowed the company to initiate Phase I/II clinical testing with its lead compound, Listeria-based cancer vaccine, Lovaxin C. Lovaxin C

Omega-3 fatty acids not cancer protection
Jackson Clarion-Ledger - Eat your fatty fish and hang on, if you wish, to that bottle of tasty fish oil - but don't expect them to protect you from cancer. A new study says that foods and supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids do not offer such protection, dashing some

Bayer and partner launch Phase 3 trial for lung cancer treatment
Mass High Tech - Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. has begun a randomized, double- blind, placebo-controlled Phase 3 clinical trial with Calif.-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. studying a compound as a potential treatment of lung cancer. The study has the Nexavar (sorafenib

Connecting With Patients Adds Meaning to Medicine
Medscape News - Two recent interactions with patients reminded me once again why I became a doctor. "JP" is a 7-year-old boy who came to the hospital with his parents because he had been sick with a gastrointestinal illness for about a week. JP felt miserable. Every

Cancer-fighting drug may get too expensive for most people
Arizona Daily Star - Doctors are excited about the prospect of Avastin, a drug already widely used for colon cancer, as a crucial new treatment for breast and lung cancer, too. But doctors are cringing at the price the maker, Genentech, plans to charge for it: about $100

Obituaries Feb. 15, 2006
Pacifica Tribune - Funeral services Saturday, Feb. 18, for Richard Gordon Cripe Funeral services will be held this Saturday for former Pacifican Richard Gordon Cripe, who died at home in Manteca Feb. 12 at the age of 78. A native of San Luis Obispo, he lived in