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Sparkman, who had worked with the Census Bureau in five counties since 2003, was a well-liked man who'd gone back to school to get his teaching certification, according to published reports. Despite his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis, he continued working for the Census and substitute teaching at an elementary school in adjacent Laurel County while waiting for a full-time position to open up. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
...Reagan tax cuts, for the war in Iraq, support for the Patriot Act." There's also an undercurrent of worry about Specter's age and health, Madonna says, although voters tend to say so only in whispers. Specter is 79 and has suffered two bouts of Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the blood...
...Connecticut imposed a record $2.1 million in penalties on two Assurant subsidiaries for allegedly engaging unfairly in a practice called postclaims underwriting - combing through short-term policyholders' medical records to find pretexts to deny their claims or rescind their policies. In one case, a woman whose non-Hodgkin's lymphoma was diagnosed in 2005 was denied coverage because she had told her doctor on a previous visit that she was feeling tired. Assurant agreed to pay the fine but admitted no wrongdoing...
...uninvited and changes your life forever. If you survive to tell the tale, your life changes for the better. At 21 years old, I have very recently slain this beast after a relatively brief encounter with it. I consider myself lucky. Chemotherapy and radiation used to eradicate Hodgkin's lymphoma might make you look really unattractive, make you feel like a miserable pile of nothing and bring forth an array of various other discomforting conditions; but surviving cancer makes everyday life so much sweeter. Activism, research, funding and politics are instrumental for developing strategies for creating awareness and combating cancer...
These tools can also grant older medications a new lease on life. Take the cancer drug MabThera, sold in the U.S. as Rituxan. MabThera was originally developed to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In 2006, Roche scientists noticed--again using biomarkers--that it was also extremely effective in certain cases of rheumatoid arthritis, a painful autoimmune condition that causes joint inflammation. Roche's sales to arthritis patients have already totaled more than $420 million...