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			<title><![CDATA[Baruch Blumberg dies at 85; Nobel Prize winner who discovered hepatitis B virus]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-04-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Dr. Baruch Blumberg, who received the 1976 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discovering the hepatitis B virus, which causes severe liver disease and cancer, and who later developed the vaccine that protects against it, has died. He was 85....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Conway children recount how 'hero' mom keeps fighting cancer]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/sns-mct-conway-children-recount-how-hero-mom-keeps-20130512,0,4474763.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-12 03:44:02</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Cancer throws even the strongest people for a loop. 

It certainly did with Mollie Conway, by any estimation a pillar of strength in the eyes of her large brood. 

"It's like a punch in the stomach," said the mother of seven. 

The first few days after...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[BGU awarded grant to study measles]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-02 10:24:34</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (AABGU) announces that Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Fox Chase Cancer Center (FCCC) in Philadelphia have received a two-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grant to...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Betty C. Dorris, 63, missionary]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-24 01:54:04</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Betty C. Dorris, 63, of Oreland, a Christian missionary, died Tuesday, April 16, of ovarian cancer at Fox Chase Cancer Center. 

Mrs. Dorris felt called as a young adult to serve as a missionary, said her husband, the Rev. Roger Dorris, a minister with...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Breast cancer and the HCG diet]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/chi-breast-cancer-and-hcg-diet-20110824,0,4550781.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-08-24 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When VJ Sleight&rsquo;s breast cancer returned last year, she wondered if the unusual recurrence &ndash; 23 years after her original diagnosis -- had anything to do with the controversial hCG diet that she had repeatedly followed.

The near-starvation...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Breast Cancer Testing: When to share results?]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/kdaf-sharing-breast-cancer-results-20120116,0,5783387.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2012-01-17 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In July of 2009--Maria Baker's life was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer-- but a follow-up genetic test showed she didn't carry the mutated gene that could be passed along to her children Dillon and James.

Even though the test...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Business briefs for Sept. 20]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/amn-business-briefs-for-sept-20-20110920,0,4531126.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-09-20 07:39:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Stuart Powell welcomes new body shop manager

Brian McQueary brings 21 years of experience to Stuart Powell in repair of all makes and models. During that time, McQueary gained six years of experience as an insurance adjuster, and is I-CAR Platinum...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Debate Surrounds New Treatment]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/sns-health-new-prostate-cancer-treatment,0,4712216.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2009-08-07 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[CyberKnife radiosurgery -- which uses narrow beams of radiation to kill several types of cancer - is marketed as a less invasive, more convenient way to treat prostate cancer, a pitch that has proved convincing for about 3,000 men over the last six years....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rectal cancer rates increasing]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-08-23 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Rates of rectal cancer in people younger than 40, although low, have been rising steadily for the last 20 years for reasons that are mystifying scientists, researchers said Sunday.

Both colon cancer and rectal cancer are thought to share the same risk...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[To be hale and healthy]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2005-08-09 12:33:44</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[BLOOD BANKS/TESTING
Biomat USA, 530 N. Seventh St., Allentown, 610-437-9011
Blood Testing Centers, Health Network Laboratories, 2024 Lehigh St., Allentown, 877-402-4221, www.healthnetworklabs.com
Keystone Community Blood Bank, 2745a Leiscz's Bridge Rd.,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Colon Cancer: This is One of the Most Preventable Cancers]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-03-09 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[You probably saw the recent headline: Colonoscopy may not be as effective as previously thought at preventing colorectal cancer, which killed an estimated 50,000 people last year.

But whether the procedure cuts the risk of getting and dying from colon...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Health Care: Hospitals]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2003-08-13 10:11:20</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Allentown State Hospital, 1600 Hanover Ave., Allentown, 610-740-3200

Central Montgomery Medical Center, 100 Medical Campus Dr., Lansdale, 215-368-2100, www.cmmc-uhs.com

Doylestown Hospital, 595 W. State St., Doylestown, 215-345-2200, www.dh.org...]]></description>
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