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December 9, 2009
Child cancer survivors have higher heart risk
LONDON (Reuters) - Children and young people who survive cancer have a significantly higher risk of developing heart disease as young adults because of the cancer treatment they received, researchers said Wednesday.
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December 1, 2009
Iraq sees alarming rise in cancers, deformed babies
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The guns are gradually falling silent in Iraq as a fragile stability takes hold, turning the spotlight on a stealthier killer likely to stalk Iraqis for years to come.
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October 12, 2009
Childhood cancer survivors less likely to marry
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The scars of childhood cancer may go beyond the physical: Adults who survived cancer as children may have lower-than-average likelihood of getting married, a new study suggests.
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September 21, 2009
Greying Britain looks to assisted suicide reform
LONDON (Reuters) - It used to be an issue just for the terminally ill. Now as populations around the world age, governments are increasingly being confronted with the taboo idea of dying as something people can volunteer to do.
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August 26, 2009
Senator Edward Kennedy dies at age 77
BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, a towering figure in the Democratic Party who took the helm of one of America's most fabled political families after two older brothers were assassinated, died at age 77, his family said.
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June 23, 2009
Ed McMahon dies at 86
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ed McMahon, a fixture on U.S. late-night television for 30 years as the full-throated announcer and sidekick for Johnny Carson on NBC's "The Tonight Show," died on Tuesday at age 86, his spokesman said.
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June 22, 2009
Whites at greatest risk for rare bone cancer
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Whites in the United States are nine times more likely than blacks to get Ewing's sarcoma, a rare cancer of the bone and soft tissue, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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December 3, 2008
Children with bone cancer at risk for second cancer
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who survive bone cancer have a modest risk of developing a second "solid organ" cancer elsewhere in the body later in life, a long-term follow-up study confirms.
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January 3, 2008
Oral bisphosphonates may lower jaw necrosis risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A report in the Journal of the American Dental Association clarifies the risk of jaw osteonecrosis associated with bisphosphonates, which are used to prevent or slow the progression of osteoporosis.