News lifestyle 2008-06-20 Andanh.com

IMMUNOTHERAPY WORKS IN ONE MELANOMA CASE Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:06 EDT
An Oregon man, given less than a year to live, had a complete remission of advanced deadly skin cancer after an experimental treatment that revved up his immune system to fight the tumors.

The 52-year-old patient's dramatic turnaround was the only success in a small study, leading doctors to be cautious in their enthusiasm. However, the treatment reported in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine is being counted as the latest in a small series of successes involving immune-priming treatments against deadly skin cancers.

"Immunotherapy has become the most promising approach" to late-stage, death-sentence skin cancers, said Dr. Darrell Rigel, a dermatology researcher at the New York University Cancer Institute in New York who had no role in the research.

Still, the immune-priming experiments have yet to yield a consistent therapy. Even researchers who worked on the experiment involving nine patients and just one success are quick to couch the result. "This is only one patient," said study co-author Dr. Cassian Yee of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

Two years after his recovery the patient fell out of contact with researchers, and scientists do not know his current condition. The man, who lives in a small town in Oregon, has declined media interviews, Yee said.

Chain saw artist has carved a niche Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:48 EDT

JEFFERSONVILLE . On a wooded road two miles from the center of the hamlet of Jeffersonville in Montgomery County, the sound of a chain saw leads a visitor to the back-yard workshop of Harley Dougherty.

His long gravel driveway in the pristine woods is lined on either side with bears, owls, wildcats, eagles and a dolphin. All are made of wood, mostly pine, that has been shaped with a chain saw.

On this day, Dougherty is hard at work on an eight-foot bear.

He looks the part of someone you might find in this backwoods location. He has a thick lumberjack-style beard, a dark cloth tied around his head and dirty leather chaps that help protect his legs. He has a soft, intelligent voice and greets visitors with a come-on-in friendliness.

Indigo Run is community defined Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:40 EDT

RICHMOND . Blame the kids.

.The first day we moved in,. says Cindy Glass, .Tyler and Tanner (two kids from down the block) came to see if there were any kids with us..

There were four.

From that day on, the kids on Moss Creek Court have been out on the circle. One minute it's soccer goals at both ends; the next, it's water balloon fights and bike races. The next, it's one teenage boy noticing that another was always wearing a Guns-N-Roses or Led Zeppelin T-shirt and saying .Hey, let's play some music,. said Jake Ellison, and soon Jake, T.J. Glass and Michael Riley had put together a band that plays in T.J.'s room at the Glass's house or out on the Rileys' driveway.

Tragedy unites family through bluegrass band
There was no doubt in Jere Cherryholmes’ mind that musical talent flowed through his whole family.

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