Women receiving radiation for breast cancer (search) may no longer face an increased risk of potentially deadly heart damage from the treatment. More than 40 percent of women with breast cancer undergo radiation following surgery. Studies in the 1970s indicated that radiation therapy for breast cancer also exposed the heart …
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NEW YORK – The irony has not escaped Lorraine Bracco (search). For five seasons as psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Melfi on HBO’s “The Sopranos” (search), the actress has battled mob boss Tony Soprano’s mental demons. But for a year and a half in real life, Bracco was fighting clinical depression with …
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INDIANAPOLIS – Fairleigh Dickinson (search) coach Tom Green still believes a 16 seed will knock off a No. 1 someday. And for a little while, it looked possible to everyone in the RCA Dome (search). The 16th-seeded Knights took it to the nation’s top-ranked team in the first half Thursday …
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This is a partial transcript from “The Beltway Boys”, Feb. 26, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “The Beltway Boys” Saturday at 6 p.m. ET and Sunday at 1 and 6 a.m. EST. FRED BARNES, CO-HOST: Congress takes Social Security on the road as we go Beyond the …
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TOKYO – Japan Airlines is ordering 30 jets from Boeing Co. (BA) in a contract worth about $1.8 billion, the companies said Friday. The order for the 737NG (search), which stands for “next generation,” follows an order by Japan Airlines in December for 30 of Boeing’s new widebody jets called …
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan’s government on Monday rejected a media report that an international black market in weapons technology, run by disgraced Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan (search), may have sold equipment to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. But while Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed described as “baseless” the allegations …
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VIENNA, Austria – Iran received an “extensive” written offer from the nuclear black market in the 1980s, the head of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency said Monday, reacting to reports that the list contained all the know-how required for weapons-related enrichment technology. Mohamed ElBaradei (search), head of the International Atomic …
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Blocking the effects of estrogen (search) may offer a new way to stop lung cancer growth and reduce deaths from the disease, according to two new studies. The results show estrogen may trigger growth in lung cancer cells (search) much in the same way that estrogen causes breast cancer cells …
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CENTERVILLE, Iowa – A longtime fugitive nicknamed the “Ruthless Care Giver (search)” has been arrested with the help of tips following a television program and records that showed someone else once punched her in the face in this southern Iowa town. Elizabeth Raughton (search), 62, had been sought since 1992 …
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You probably clean vigorously at home, at least occasionally. But how often does this happen at work, the valiant efforts of the janitorial staff notwithstanding? Maybe not as effectively as you might wish or suspect, according to a five-city study of germs found in office settings. Charles Gerba, a microbiologist …
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