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FDA'S Cber Sipping New Year's Champagne Burst Patient's Bubbles
TIME MATTERS CareToLive is following in the footsteps of the Abigail Alliance http://abigail-alliance.org, a truly stellar patient advocacy group, who fought the FDA for earlier approval for 16 treatments for late stage patients who were out of options. All 16 have either... 
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Stand Up To Cancer - Manage Your Treatment
Award-winning actresses Edie Falco and Cynthia Nixon appear in a new Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) public service campaign (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9avVoQB2_rQ) to educate cancer patients and their loved ones... 
August 31, 1909: First Chemotherapy Drug Treats Syphilis 100th
Among other things that happened in history on August 31, this date marks the 100th anniversary in medicine. On August 31, 1909 German physician Paul Ehrlich developed a treatment for syphilis using a chemotherapy drug. Ehrlich in fact coined the term chemotherapy to describe...
Frank McCourt, Author of Angela's Ashes May Have Weeks to Live
Frank McCourt, the world-famous author and Pulitzer Prize winner of Angela's Ashes, may only have weeks to live as he battles the deadly skin cancer melanoma and now he has been diagnosed with meningitis. He is...
Melissa Etheridge: Medical marijuana should be legal
(CNN) -- Each day an estimated 6,000 Americans will try marijuana for the first time. It's the most common illicit drug in the United States with nearly 15 million people using it at least once a month. ... 
Finding bone-marrow donors a problem for mixed-race patients
Mixed-heritage patients in the US who are in urgent need of a bone-marrow donor to help cure their sickness are in a dilemma since only a tiny fraction of donors on the national bone-marrow registry are of mixed race. Nick Glasgow is sufferring from leukemia and he has not... 
Cancer-stricken Minnesota teen, mother return home on their own
" The weeklong search for Daniel Hauser — the 13-year-old refusing court-ordered chemotherapy — came to an end Monday when Brown County authorities announced he and his mother were back in Minnesota. The...
Mom, teen fighting chemotherapy flee Sleepy Eye home, miss court
NEW ULM, Minn. — "An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for Colleen Hauser, who failed to bring her 13-year-old son, Daniel, to a court hearing regarding whether he should receive chemotherapy against his wishes. ...
CareToLive Provenge Prostate Cancer Petition at FDA 620 Days
FDA IGNORES PATIENT'S RIGHTS - They prefer to burn us, poison us and mutilate us, as if we are experimental mammals that they can torture for their own financial enrichment. 1 in 6 men will be diagnosed with... 
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