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...kill himself using a plastic hood filled with helium. The defendants face at least up to five years in prison if convicted. It appears the man who died was not terminally ill; according to the Associated Press, his doctor told authorities that although he suffered from cancer that left his face disfigured, he was cancer-free at the time of his suicide...
...added that he regularly speaks by phone with Senator Edward M. Kennedy - who in his capacity as head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has been working on the issue at a distance as he undergoes treatment for brain cancer - and has been meeting with some of the key players in the House, including Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman and Ways and Means chairman Charlie Rangel...
...Wearing a dress or wearing pants he was always our father,” Cardullo-Tavilla said. Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, also praised Cardullo for her courage, and said that it was “profoundly unfair” that her colon cancer diagnosis—which occurred in 2007—came so soon. But Cardullo-Tavilla said she and her siblings, who have assumed responsibility of the store, will continue to uphold Cardullo’s spirit and traditions—especially broadcasting Red Sox games in the TV screen...
...research center, we carry out an important role in developing innovative health technologies that can have an enormous potential impact around the globe. Inventions produced today in Harvard laboratories may lead to revolutionary new treatments, not just for neglected diseases, but for conditions such as AIDS, heart disease, and cancer, which are problems for developing and developed countries alike. Publicly funded research, carried out at institutions like Harvard, produces key inputs to the drug development pipeline: In the past century, 15 out of the 21 most important therapeutic drugs were developed with public funds...
Harvard Medical School Professor Edward E. Harlow was awarded $100,000 last Wednesday by the Melanoma Research Foundation to fund his work developing therapeutic approaches to treat melanoma, a skin cancer that kills thousands of Americans each year. The award—the Established Investigator Grant—will support Harlow’s research for two years. Harlow was one of five to be selected from an applicant pool of 60 for this award after a scientific advisory committee looked over all the proposals and chose the most promising ones, according to the Tim Turnham, the foundation?...