Thursday, October 2, 2008 Serving Others in Honor of Our Daughters: Marrianne Dietzel and Linda Bergh and Writing to Heal the Loss of a Husband and Child: Dianne Rooks

Thursday, October 2, 2008 Serving Others in Honor of Our Daughters: Marrianne Dietzel and Linda Bergh and Writing to Heal the Loss of a Husband and Child: Dianne Rooks
Marianne Dietzel and Linda Bergh lost their teenage daughters, Nina and Kirsten, in a car accident in 1996.  Their mutual losses brought them through grief and gave them the desire to be of service to others suffering loss. Linda is the publisher of  She Would Draw Flowers\ a book of poetry by Kirsten Bergh. (See Grief Poems for  one of Kirsten’s poems, “For You, Papa.)

As a master storyteller, Diane Rooks found healing after the death of her husband and son in the stories that she heard and told. On this show Diane reveals how we can use our stories to repair even the most shattered lives. She is the author of Spinning Gold out of Straw: How Stories Heal.

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Some immigrant and women's rights advocacy groups are raising concern about a new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services rule that adds the human papillomavirus vaccine to the list of required vaccinations for female immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship, the

DeGeneres Joins Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign Thursday With Phone Messages

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Researchers Find Safer Way To Make Stem Cells From Mature Cells

ake Stem Cells From Mature Celld a safer way to convert mature cells into an embryonic-like state, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Science, the

ONI BioPharma Inc. Licenses Unique Gene Targets For Colorectal Cancer

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Antisoma Starts Phase II Trial Of AS1402 In Breast Cancer

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Enchanting Christmas Celebration At St. Paul’s Raises Money For Cancer Research UK

For anyone looking for a truly sparkling way to celebrate the festive season this year, the biennial Christmas Concert at St Paul's Cathedral in aid of Cancer Research UK is taking place on 16 December 2008.

Immune System Can Hurt As Well As Help Fight Cancer, Penn Study Shows

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that some proteins of the immune system can promote tumor growth. Investigators found that instead of fighting tumors, the protein C5a, which is produced during an immune response to a developing tumor, helps tumors build molecular shields against T-cell attack. These findings appeared online this week in Nature Immunolgy.

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