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Trial and Error
Sunday, 5 Dec, 2010 – 14:41 | No Comment
Trial and Error

December 3, 2010
Learning to Trust Divine Guidance
Trial and Error
If you have asked the universe for guidance, learn through experience to recognize and trust the guidance you receive.
Anyone who has asked for divine guidance knows that it can be challenging to trust it when it comes. This is because divine guidance comes in many forms and [...]

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City Harvest “Feed the Dream”
Friday, 3 Dec, 2010 – 21:10 | No Comment
City Harvest “Feed the Dream”

New York, New York–December 3, 2010–If you are not familiar with City Harvest, they are an organization that focuses on rescuing food to feed New York city’s hungry men, women and children. City Harvest has a really cool initiative going on to drive donations using QR codes that we wanted to share with you.
A [...]

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Life’s Tangled Mess
Thursday, 2 Dec, 2010 – 13:06 | No Comment
Life’s Tangled Mess

December 3, 2010–Katy, Tx.–Over this last weekend my parents treated the whole family to Disney’s Tangled. After checking times and deciding which theater we were going to Johnny and I made our way with kids in tow to meet my parents at our local mall on Sunday. Truthfully it has been a while since we [...]

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Potential New Target for Treating Triple Negative Breast Cancer Identified
Tuesday, 30 Nov, 2010 – 1:44 | No Comment
Potential New Target for Treating Triple Negative Breast Cancer Identified

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a cancer that does not express receptors for oestrogen (ER), progesterone (PR) or the human epidermal growth factor (HER2). It tends to be more aggressive, occurs more often in younger women, and is difficult to treat successfully as it lacks the receptors that currently available targeted therapies such as [...]

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Too Much of a Good Thing: Important Mechanism in Hormone-Sensitive Breast Cancer Uncovered
Friday, 26 Nov, 2010 – 15:23 | No Comment
Too Much of a Good Thing: Important Mechanism in Hormone-Sensitive Breast Cancer Uncovered

Jointly with his coworkers, Dr. Yasser Riazalhosseini and Pedro de Souza Rocha Simonini, Joerg Hoheisel has now been able to show that a tiny little nucleic acid, a microRNA known as miR-375, causes the high receptor levels which, in many cases, lead to cancer. MicroRNAs are important intracellular signal mediators, which have a substantial influence [...]

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Discovery Halts Breast Cancer Stem Cells
Tuesday, 23 Nov, 2010 – 20:40 | No Comment
Discovery Halts Breast Cancer Stem Cells

Discovery Halts Breast Cancer Stem Cells
Released: 11/23/2010 8:00 AM EST
Source: Tufts University
Newswise — Breast cancer stem cells (CSCs), the aggressive cells thought to be resistant to current anti-cancer therapies and which promote metastasis, are stimulated by estrogen via a pathway that mirrors normal stem cell development. Disrupting the pathway, researchers were able to halt the [...]

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Woman Forced To Remove And Show Prosthetic Breast At Charlotte Douglas International Airport
Monday, 22 Nov, 2010 – 14:03 | 2 Comments
Woman Forced To Remove And Show Prosthetic Breast At Charlotte Douglas International Airport

Cathy Bossy, a flight attendant for U.S. Airways for the last 32 years, had to remove and show her prosthetic breast during a security pat-down by a TSA (Transport Security Administration) agent at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Bossy is a 3-year breast cancer survivor. The prospect of being exposed to radiation during a full-body scan [...]

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Pa. Students File Lawsuit Over ‘Boobies’ Bracelets After Suspension
Thursday, 18 Nov, 2010 – 20:11 | No Comment
Pa. Students File Lawsuit Over ‘Boobies’ Bracelets After Suspension

With support from the American Civil Liberties Union, two Easton, Pa., middle school students are suing their school district over their suspensions for wearing popular bracelets supporting a breast cancer awareness group, the AP/Los Angeles Times reports. The $4 rubber bracelets, sold by the Calif.-based Keep A Breast Foundation, say “I [heart] boobies!”
School officials said [...]

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Portable Breast Scanner Allows Cancer Detection in the Blink of an Eye
Monday, 15 Nov, 2010 – 1:32 | No Comment
Portable Breast Scanner Allows Cancer Detection in the Blink of an Eye

Professor Zhipeng Wu has invented a portable scanner based on radio frequency technology, which is able to show in a second the presence of tumours — malignant and benign — in the breast on a computer.
Using radio frequency or microwave technology for breast cancer detection has been proven by researchers in the US, Canada and [...]

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Undistracted Energy
Thursday, 11 Nov, 2010 – 1:49 | No Comment
Undistracted Energy

November 10, 2010
Undistracted Energy
Pure Thoughts
Pure thought is focused attention which creates power and energy because there is no distraction.
If we make no effort at all, our thoughts usually scatter in a vast array of directions. They start and stop and move in surprising ways from one second to the next. If we try to follow [...]

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