Topic: United States
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. comedian Robert Schimmel died on Friday night in a Phoenix hospital from injuries he sustained in a car accident, his public relations firm said on Saturday. Schimmel, 60, was a passenger in his 19-year-old daughter's car on ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adding to evidence that men with early prostate cancer can safely put off surgery, a new study finds that patients who delayed surgery by over a year had similar outcomes as those who opted for immediate treatment. ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Adding an experimental drug to chemotherapy helped wipe out brain cancer cells in mice, offering a promising new treatment approach for the deadly cancer, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. They said a drug called a gamma secretase or Notch ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - An ancient Chinese brew may help reduce the intestinal damage caused by chemotherapy given to colon and rectal cancer patients, researchers said on Thursday. To meet growing consumer demands, researchers in the field of traditional medicine are trying ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The growing burden of cancer in developing countries could be reduced without expensive drugs and equipment, scientists said Monday, but it requires a global effort similar to the fight against HIV/AIDS. In a study in the Lancet, scientists from ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Cathy Jamison wants a pool in her absurdly tiny garden. She has just been diagnosed with terminal stage 4 melanoma, and she wants that pool. Now. Cathy, played by award-winning actress Laura Linney, is an uptight suburban teacher ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Treating tumors with salmonella bacteria can induce an immune response that kills cancer cells, scientists have found -- a discovery that may help them create tumor-killing immune cells to inject into patients. Researchers from Italy and the United States ...
LONDON (Reuters) - An "electronic nose" could be used as a simple breath test to detect lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancers, Israeli scientists said Wednesday. Using the sensor to pinpoint chemical variations, the team found they could not only distinguish between ...
Education Born in Ottawa, Eaves moved at an early age to Nova Scotia. Interested in science, he attended Acadia University and graduated with a BSc in Biology and Mathematics in 1962. He then went to Dalhousie University, completing his MSc in cell ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite Canada's universal healthcare system, poorer Canadians with cancer are more likely to die early than their wealthier peers, suggests a new study of almost 100,000 patients from Ontario. But unlike studies conducted in the United States, ...
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