Lance Armstrong Steps Down as Cancer Group Chair, Dropped by Sponsors

Lance Armstrong steps down as cancer group chair, dropped by sponsors

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Armstrong was dumped by Nike, Anheuser-Busch and other sponsors, and he gave up the top spot at Austin-based Livestrong, his beloved cancer-fighting charity, a week after an anti-doping agency released evidence of drug use by the seven-time Tour de …
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USADA stripped Lance Armstrong's titles; sponsors fled; fans left to decide

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Lance Armstrong was accorded a hero's reception when he strode on stage at the Austin Convention Center for this weekend's 15th anniversary celebration of Livestrong, the charity he founded to help those battling cancer following his own diagnosis in …
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Teen's death shows how flu can kill in a flash

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Austin Booth didn't feel great, but well enough to play in a high school varsity basketball game and even made it to school the next day. When he started … Austin's case is not unusual, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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A Novel Drug Delivery Method for Targeting Chemotherapy to Pancreatic …

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A new drug delivery method that targets high levels of the chemotherapeutic agent gemcitabine directly to pancreatic cancer cells, while largely sparing normal cells, is presented in an article in Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, a peer-reviewed journal from …
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