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New drug shows promise in cancer treatment

A relatively new drug treatment for breast cancer has created exciting prospects from the future of breast cancer treatments.

Trials give hope to patients

To a cancer patient, the best medicine often can be hope. Hope for a better course of action, hope for better medicine, hope for great doctors or hope for what the Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada often can deliver: acceptance into a study for an effective new drug.

Oncology nurse finds joy in her work

Oncology nursing is not an easy career choice by any means. Nurses in this field specialize in caring for people with cancer, often serving as the first line of communication and coordinating the many aspects of patients’ treatment plans.

Global warming taking toll on people’s health, doctors say

Global warming is hurting people’s health a bit more than previously thought, but there’s hope that the Earth — and populations — can heal if the planet kicks its coal habit, a group of doctors and other experts said.

Director of UNLV HIV program kicked off campus

The university on Monday placed Dr. Echezona Ezeanolue, the program’s director, and Dina Patel, a pediatric nurse practitioner, on administrative leave. They were escorted off the campus, according to their attorney, Jacob Hafter.

Las Vegas poker tourney to benefit St. Jude’s hospital

The fourth annual Against All Odds Poker Tournament to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will be held beginning at 5:30 p.m. Friday at South Beach outside Red Rock Resort,

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