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Weekend book picks: Allman, Spacek memoirs

What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include memoirs from Gregg Allman and Sissy Spacek, and the latest very funny novel from Christopher Buckley.My Cross to BearBy Gregg Allman with Alan Light; William Morrow, 378 pp., $27.99; non-fictionMy Cross to Bear, Allman’s autobiography, is a soul-searching rumination on a hard-lived [...]

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Tricking cancer with decoy molecules

How do cancer cells reproduce and form dangerous tumors? first, they must copy their DNA, and to do this, they use molecules – called nucleosides – to build new DNA strands. Many chemotherapy drugs are “nucleoside-like drugs,” and are shaped like these molecules, to disrupt the process. When cells mistake them for nucleosides, DNA replication [...]

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SciClone Pharmaceuticals to Report Financial Results for the First Quarter 2012 on May 9th

FOSTER CITY, CA, may 02, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) –SciClone Pharmaceuticals, inc. /quotes/zigman/77751/quotes/nls/scln SCLN -1.70% today announced thatit plans to report first quarter 2012 financial results on Wednesday,may 9, 2012. SciClone will host a conference call and webcast toprovide a business and product update at 4:30 pm ET that day. Thecall will be hosted by [...]

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The struggle against Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is a contagious, viral disease that leads to swelling (inflammation) of the liver. according to the Caring Ambassadors Hepatitis C Program, approximately five million Americans have been infected with the virus and two out of three are unaware that they have it.Lucinda K. Porter, registered nurse and author of “Free from Hepatitis C,” [...]

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State inspections find ‘deficiencies’ at abortion-providing clinics; problems corrected last month

A Tennessee Department of Health inspection earlier this year of two local clinics that provide abortions found several violations. Both clinics have corrected the deficiencies, the department said. The state contracted local surveyors to inspect Knoxville Center for Reproductive Health, 1547 W. Clinch Ave., on Feb. 21 and Volunteer Women’s Medical Clinic, 313 Concord St., [...]

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