Drug Treatment Works, Illinois Advocates Say – (Springfield, IL) –The estimated number of Illinois residents waiting for alcohol and drug abuse assessment and treatment at state-financed facilities in 20…

Nonsmokers with lung cancer fight stigma

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Meghan O'Brien, seen in an undated handout photograph, during one of her many hospitalizations over the past 15 months. Meghan is a non-smoker that is battling stage 4 lung cancer. / Provided …
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Nonsmokers with lung cancer have to battle stigma, too

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The University of Chicago is one of the nation's major treatment centers because of a clinical trial for crizotinib, part of a new arsenal of drugs designed to help patients by blocking ALK. This pharmaceutical “Hail Mary” helped contain O'Brien's …
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Illinois man sells valuable comic book collection to fight disease

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KILDEER, Ill. (AP) — It could be a plot from a classic comic book: A mild-mannered boy with the good Spidey sense to treat his comics like priceless manuscripts grows into a man who must use the valuable collection to fight his greatest foe, a rare …
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