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Following reports, including in Digital Journal, on the shortage of life-saving drugs such as those required to combat cancer, the FDA, under orders from President Obama, have outlined a plan to increase supplies.
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The U.S. Senate and medical groups have raised concerns about a national shortage of a scarce cancer drug for children. The scarcity relates to the volume of medicine being prepared by pharmaceutical companies.
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Toronto -
Tony Coscarella has been a police officer for the past 20 years. He has spent his life helping the residents of Toronto every day but now he needs help from the community.
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Actress Jill Clayburgh died Friday night at her home in Lakeville, Connecticut surrounded by her family. Clayburgh had battled chronic lymphocytic leukemia for two decades. She was 66 years old.
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The VA has opened the door for retroactive disability compensation for about 86,000 Vietnam war veterans, their surviving spouses or their estates by expanding the number of diseases presumed caused by herbicide exposure during the Vietnam war
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British scientists have discovered that pregnant women can transmit some forms of cancer - including a serious type of leukemia and skin cancer - to their unborn babies.
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Following numerous links between viral infections and cancer development, research teams from the University of Utah and Columbia University have connected prostate cancer with a virus.
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Other studies have found a correlation between household pesticide use and leukemia. In this study, scientists analyzed the urine of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and found a higher concentration of pesticides compared with healthy controls.
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Using an asthma medication already available on the market, scientists were able to treat chronic myeloid leukemia by targeting a gene involved with the inflammatory response.
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With only a few weeks left of her life, 9-year-old Jayla Cooper fulfilled a dream as friends and family watched on in bittersweet delight.
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Medication used to treat the most common form of childhood leukemia is in short supply, adding to the largest nationwide shortage of critical life-saving hospital medications in nearly a decade.
Hospitals forced to ration drug that cures leukemia.
 A Terrebonne teen suffering from a rare form of leukemia is appealing to the public to find a bone marrow donor match before her window of opportunity for a transplant closes.
 An Ontario girl whose high-profile battle against cancer has inspired thousands will get a chance to share her story with the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall when the royals visit Toronto.
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