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• FDA questions Amgen drug for prostate cancer

  Monday, Feb 6, 6:12 am

  Scientists for the Food and Drug Administration say that an Amgen drug slowed the spread of cancer to the bone in men with hard-to-treat prostate cancer, though the drug did not extend life and carried significant side effects. Read more...
  

• Dr. Oz's health effort nets 1 million participants

  Monday, Feb 6, 5:37 am

  Television already has "The Biggest Loser." Dr. Mehmet Oz is looking for the biggest number of losers. Read more...
  

• Too many kids breathe others' smoke in cars: CDC

  Sunday, Feb 5, 10:49 pm

  Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list. Read more...
  

• Today in History

  Sunday, Feb 5, 9:00 pm

  Today is Monday, Feb. 6, the 37th day of 2012. There are 329 days left in the year. Read more...
  
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  Philadelphia celebrates Dickens' 200th birthday

  Sunday, Feb 5, 6:14 pm

  Past the glass case containing sketches for his novel "Oliver Twist," beyond the handwritten letter to his publisher about Little Nell, and away from the first published installments of "Hard Times" sits Charles Dickens' pet bird. Read more...
  
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  'Chronicle' edges Radcliffe's 'Woman' with $22M

  Sunday, Feb 5, 12:51 pm

  Some unknown kids with superpowers have nudged out the actor who plays the world's most famous teen wizard at the weekend box office. Read more...
  

• Ga. pastor apologizes to Jewish group for ceremony

  Sunday, Feb 5, 11:32 am

  A Georgia megachurch leader is apologizing to a Jewish group that criticized him for taking part in a ceremony in which he was wrapped in a religious scroll and exalted as a "king." Read more...
  
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  Russia's unlikely protest song rocks rally

  Sunday, Feb 5, 10:59 am

  The most popular protest song in Moscow today comes from burly men in blue berets, unlikely heroes of a peaceful middle-class movement challenging the strongman rule of Vladimir Putin. Read more...
  

• Mass. boxer who was on '05 reality TV show dies

  Sunday, Feb 5, 6:54 am

  A boxer who appeared on the 2005 reality TV show "The Contender" has died after being struck by a Massachusetts commuter train while he was walking along the tracks. Read more...
  

• Mass. boxer on '05 reality TV show dies

  Sunday, Feb 5, 12:05 am

  A boxer who appeared on the 2005 reality TV show "The Contender" has died after being struck by a Massachusetts commuter train while he was walking along the tracks. Read more...
  
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  Some former Komen supporters can't forgive, forget

  Saturday, Feb 4, 6:35 pm

  When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer _ "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. _ she was so moved she sat in her car and wept. Read more...
  
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  Hungarian far-right politician and writer dies

  Saturday, Feb 4, 6:33 am

  Istvan Csurka, a Hungarian anti-Soviet dissident playwright and later far-right nationalist politician who was criticized at home and abroad for his anti-semitic articles, died Saturday at age 77. Read more...
  
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  Surprises about Planned Parenthood cancer testing

  Friday, Feb 3, 8:02 pm

  To many people, breast cancer screening means a mammogram. But for millions of poor, mostly young women who visit Planned Parenthood, it is usually just a physical exam by the only health professional they may ever see. Read more...
  
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  Jason Segel honored by Harvard theater group

  Friday, Feb 3, 6:56 pm

  Actor Jason Segel has been honored as Man of the Year by Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Read more...
  

• Diocese closes purchase of Crystal Cathedral

  Friday, Feb 3, 6:24 pm

  The Diocese of Orange has closed on its purchase of the shimmering Crystal Cathedral and surrounding 31-acre grounds, putting the iconic building seen as a testament to televangelism in Catholic hands. Read more...