Novelos Therapeutics Announces $15 Million Private Placement
Genetic Engineering News - Novelos Therapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB: NVLT), a biotechnology company focused on the development of therapeutics to treat cancer and hepatitis, today announced that it has entered into definitive securities purchase agreements with institutional
Hoyem memorial arrangements announced
News-Press - A memorial service for Mike Hoyem, 51, who died of lung cancer Wednesday, will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at his home, 3417 Via Torcida, Fort Myers. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial contributions be sent to the Patty Berg Cancer
Government issues new rules on chromium
MSNBC - WASHINGTON - The Labor Department reduced the acceptable levels of workplace exposure Monday to a cancer-causing metal, hexavalent chromium, but critics said the new standard still leaves thousands of workers at risk. The new rule limits worker
Obituaries in the news
Seattle Post Intelligencer - BERKELEY, Calif. — Owen Chamberlain, who shared the 1959 Nobel Prize in physics as co-discoverer of the antiproton in atomic physics, died Tuesday of Parkinson’s disease, officials at the University of California, Berkeley, said Wednesday. He was 85
Comedy Star Don Knotts Died of Lung Cancer
Axcess News - (AXcess News) Hollywood - Famed television and movie comedy actor, Don Knotts, 81, died of lung cancer Friday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, California. Best known for his lovable character, Barney Fife, the deputy sheriff on
Former State Lawmaker And Father Of Country Music Singer Dies
LEX 18 - Frankfort (AP) — Former state Rep. Ron Cyrus died Tuesday in a Lexington hospital, a funeral director in Flatwoods said. He was 70. Cyrus, father of country music singer Billy Ray Cyrus, served 20 years in the Kentucky General Assembly, beginning in
Possible Flag for Early Lung Cancer
NewsMax.com - C-reactive protein (CRP), the inflammation-related substance used as a flag for heart disease, may also be a warning marker for early lung cancer, according to a Canadian study. Researchers at the University of British Colombia measured CRP, lung