| Alleged Fake Cancer Patient Accused Of Bilking NYC Widower Of $208K | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 7:02:11 AM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK -- A New Jersey woman has been indicted on charges of bilking an 81-year-old Manhattan widower out of $208,000 by claiming she had a fatal illness and needed the money to pay for medical treatments, authorities said. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said Janet Costello, 32, of North Bergen, N.J., was arrested Oct. 5 when she showed up at the man's Upper East Side townhouse to collect another check for her allegedly bogus sickness. Costello is being held on $250,000 bail and is charged with grand larceny. She faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. .... | |
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| | | Making huge strides | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 12:57:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | More than 700 Dover area residents will gather at Wentworth-Douglass Hospital on Sunday, Oct. 15, to walk to honor and celebrate breast cancer survivors, educate women about the importance of early detection and prevention, and raise money to fund lifesaving research and support programs during the American Cancer Society's 14th annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. Opening ceremonies at the event begin at 10:45 a.m., and will include a special survivors' recognition. Walkers will leave at 11 a.m. from the front parking lot at of the hospital on Central Avenue, and complete a 2 or 3 mile route through downtown. Disc jockey JD Plourde will provide entertainment for participants before and after the walk. The Dover event is one of more than 110 walks being held throughout the nation, and one of eight in New Hampshire.... | |
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| | | Medical treatments often miraculous it's just their price that's lethal | | Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:04:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Within the last decade, an array of expensive new treatments has given some patients their first real fighting chance against common diseases once routinely called "terminal." These treatments include: - Cancer drugs manufactured in living cells, instead of beakers. These biotech drugs target just diseased tissue, unlike chemotherapy. Thanks to these drugs, some late-stage colon and blood cancers are no longer hopeless. - Implants that help the heart pump blood. These devices ? the most common is the left-ventricular assist ? are heir to decades of research in artificial heart technology. They provide an option for some patients with failing hearts. Some of these therapies, like the biotech drug Gleevec for leukemia or implanted defibrillators for some heart problems, work wonders in many patients.... | |
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| | | A Medical Crisis of Conscience | | Posted Sunday, July 16, 2006 8:57:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | In Chicago, an ambulance driver refused to transport a patient for an abortion. In California, fertility specialists rebuffed a gay woman seeking artificial insemination. In Texas, a pharmacist turned away a rape victim seeking the morning-after pill. Around the United States, health workers and patients are clashing when providers balk at giving care that they feel violates their beliefs, sparking an intense, complex and often bitter debate over religious freedom vs. patients' rights. .... | |
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