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Is there a cancer cluster around the Alberta Tar Sands

2015-02-26 13:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Vox: In 2006, Canadian doctor John OConnor made a startling realization. Specialists had diagnosed three of his patients in the northern Alberta village of Fort Chipewyan with cholangiocarcinoma -- a deadly cancer of the bile duct. The same cancer had killed his own father years earlier in Ireland. Only about one in 100,000 Canadians contracts this type of cancer, so the likelihood of three cases in a town of about 950 was minuscule. OConnor suspected pollution from Albertas tar sands, 100 miles...

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Pharmacyclics said to weigh sale of U.S. cancer drugmaker

2015-02-26 02:33:48| Biotech - Topix.net

Pharmacyclics, which makes a fast- growing cancer drug and is valued at more than $15 billion, is exploring options including a sale, said people with knowledge of the matter. The Sunnyvale-based drugmaker has attracted interest from companies including Johnson & Johnson and Novartis, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private information.

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RTI International opens Indian subsidiary, tackles toilets, cancer

2015-02-23 23:21:31| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

Fresh off the plane from India, Research Triangle Park-based RTI International CEO Wayne Holden says the firm's newly opened New Delhi subsidiary has a real chance to change the world. A Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded effort to develop a waterless toilet for use in developing nations is among the subsidiary's missions.

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Novartis AG wins approval to buy GSK cancer drugs with conditions

2015-02-23 19:12:54| Biotech - Topix.net

Novartis AG has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy GlaxoSmithKline's oncology drugs, with conditions, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Monday. To win U.S. approval for the $16 billion deal, Novartis agreed to divest assets related to its BRAF and MEK inhibitor drugs, now in development to fight melanoma, the FTC said.

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