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Supreme Court rejects another Georgia election challengeThe U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected another attempt to overturn the presidential election results in Georgia. In a lawsuit filed in November, attorney L. Lin Wood cited what he said were numerous problems with the conduct of the election in Georgia. Among other things, he said signature matching on absentee ballots was not done properly. In November, a U.S. District Court judge rejected Wood's request for an emergency order preventing the certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the election in Georgia. The judge found no evidence o...
Tribune News Service
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GOP icon Bob Dole reveals lung cancer diagnosis, begins treatment next week
WASHINGTON — Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole revealed Thursday that he’s been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and will begin treatment Monday. “While I certainly have some hurdles ahead, I also know that I join millions of Americans who face significant health challenges of their own,” Dole, 97, said in a statement. The statement did not provide details about Dole’s treatment plan. Stage 4 is the most advanced stage of the disease and means that the cancer has spread to other parts of the body, according to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Dole represented Kansas in Congress ...
The Kansas City Star
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Editorial: Rush and us: After Rush Limbaugh, America struggles with how to unite, and if unity is even possible
Dead at the age of 70 is the talented, tenacious and tremendously influential voice that more than any other built conservative talk radio. We don’t enjoy speaking ill of the recently deceased. May Rush Limbaugh, who suffered the ravages of lung cancer, rest in peace. But neither on this day or any day can the nation turn away from what Limbaugh represented — and the new American political climate he more than anyone else helped usher in. It is a climate in which “they,” which is to say one’s political opponents, are enemies seeking to profoundly alter the character of the country. In which Bl...
New York Daily News
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Rush Limbaugh, radio host and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, dead at 70
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh died Wednesday after a battle with lung cancer. He was 70. The conservative broadcaster was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Feb. 4, 2020, one day after he announced his diagnosis. The Missouri native was one of the nation’s highest-paid radio personality, according to Forbes, which put his net worth at $600 million. His $87 million annual income is second only to Howard Stern’s deal with SIRIUSXM. Limbaugh had four marriages, including his last one to party planner Kathryn Rogers, 43, whom he wed in 2010. Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas off...
New York Daily News
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Many supposed breast cancer risk genes don't raise risk, studies find
In the quarter century since the watershed discovery of BRCA1 and BRCA2, dozens of other genes have been implicated in hereditary breast cancer. A slew of commercial tests are now available that look for mutations in those breast cancer "predisposition genes" to help guide health-care decisions. The thing is, some of the genes barely nudge cancer risk. Even BRCA1/2, dreaded as time bombs, can have harmless DNA variations, or variants that haven't been studied enough to be classified. Two ambitious analyses of breast cancer risk genes — a U.S. study that included the University of Pennsylvania,...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Gene Screenings Hold Disease Clues, but Unexplained Anomalies Often Raise Fears
When her gynecologist recommended genetic testing, Mai Tran was reluctant. “I didn’t really want to do it,” recalled Tran, who had just turned 21 and was living in New York City, “but she kept on emailing me about it and was really adamant that I do it.” This story also ran on The Washington Post. It can be republished for free. Tran knew she had an elevated risk of developing breast cancer because of her family history — her mother died of the disease and a maternal aunt was diagnosed and survived. Given this, she planned to follow the standard recommendations to begin breast cancer screening...
Kaiser Health News
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Gene Screenings Hold Disease Clues, but Unexplained Anomalies Often Raise Fears
When her gynecologist recommended genetic testing, Mai Tran was reluctant. “I didn’t really want to do it,” recalled Tran, who had just turned 21 and was living in New York City, “but she kept on emailing me about it and was really adamant that I do it.” This story also ran on The Washington Post. It can be republished for free. Tran knew she had an elevated risk of developing breast cancer because of her family history — her mother died of the disease and a maternal aunt was diagnosed and survived. Given this, she planned to follow the standard recommendations to begin breast cancer screening...
California Healthline
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Can COVID-19 hygiene measures cause cancer?
Here is what Google Trends say on what was most searched when Covid-19 was at its peak in 2020 By Nabeela Khan The pandemic brought along with it a few health protocols – recommended by the WHO and the CDC, as also various governments. Wearing a mask, washing hands regularly with soap, use of infrared thermometers and sanitizers signified a “new normal”. We tracked Google Trends at different points in 2020, to get a sense of what people were searching for. Here are some interesting insights: We also found that around the same period that the search trends peaked, there were social media posts ...
Health Analytics
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Balancing Act: Hospitals are helping cancer patients with COVID-19 continue chemo, even as they fight the deadly virus
Reid Grainger, 43, and a dad of three girls, was diagnosed with stage 4 rectal cancer in May. He started an every-two-weeks chemotherapy regimen at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital, along with the attendant blood draws and PET and CT scans. Shortly after Thanksgiving, he was diagnosed with COVID-19. “I was taking three-hour naps in the middle of the day, and I’d wake up with my brain and body still in a fog,” Grainger said. Thankfully, he was able to continue receiving chemotherapy to target his cancer while he was COVID-19 positive — something hospitals weren’t sure was possible at th...
Chicago Tribune
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India’s Regional Cancer Centres, mapped
Regional Cancer Centres are dedicated to providing specialised services in cancer diagnosis, treatment and palliative care. They also have dedicated research facilities and education programs in oncology. Locate them here. By Anuja Venkatachalam Global efforts to prevent and cure cancer have met with little success as cancer kills over 9 million people every year. The latest World Health Statistics Report released by the World Health Organization in December 2020 shows that countries have made considerable progress in reducing deaths from HIV, Tuberculosis, Malaria and other Neglected tropical...
Health Analytics
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