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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 13 study Pill gives Hope to liver cancer patients by Lindsey Tanner the associated press Chicago for the first doctors say they have found a Pill that improves survival in liver a notoriously hard to treat disease diagnosed in More than half a million people globally each the results in a multinational study of 602 patients with advanced liver cancer Are impressive and Likely will change the Way patients Are cancer specialists including the study authors patients got either two tablets leadership questioned at debate by Beth Fouhy the associated press questions of courage and political leadership emerged at the latest democratic As John Edwards forcefully challenged front run ners Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama Over whether they had demonstrated Leader ship on key two Longshot hopefuls Mike gravel and Dennis Kucinich denounced what they called the Lack of leadership by congressional democrats after voters returned them to Power last with a new Washington news poll showing Clinton far ahead of her rivals a the former first lady projected an air of Confidence and a Mastery of the subject matter at sundays she also insisted democrats should focus their pol icy critiques ones specially president the differences among us Are the differences Between and republicans Are analysis us and we dont want anybody in America to be she she chuckled As her rivals were quizzed Over what role her Hus former president Bill Clin would play in a democratic and the consensus hed be a roving global who in the first debate in april appeared nervous and in sufficiently had a smoother delivery this time and a More detailed grasp of policy is so it was left to Strug gling to catch up to Clinton and Obama in most National to throw the sharpest accusing them of being passive and cautious on urgent like health care and Gay the Job of the president of the United states is not to legislate but to he one strategist said Edwards approach was bold but potentially daily of a drug called Sor Afenir or Dummy pills in the which started in March some patients Are still although on Sor Afenir patients sur Vived months versus almost 8 months for those on Dummy that a difference of 44 per or about three that Type of survival advantage has never happened with liver cancer and is a major break through in the management of the said Josep la the Lead that May not sound like a lot of but for liver this is actually a quite impressive said Nancy David son of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg school of Public it is the first effective systemic treatment for liver which is such a huge problem Sor Afenir attacks cancer with a targeted double barrelled a it zeros in on malignant cells themselves and cuts off the blood Supply feeding the it is believed to work on tutors within the liver and those that have spread in the tutors didst shrink or disappear but in Many cases they also didst you Are not curing the disease but you Are delaying the progression of the disease significantly and said of mount Sinai school of Medicine in new York and Hospital clinic of the study was halted in because of the Good re and patients on Dummy pills were switched to this is a very Good step for Ward in this said Emily Chan of Vanderbilt in Gram cancer Center in results were prepared for re lease monday in Chicago at the american society of clinical on cology annual film car flies off the lot in Florida auction Samuel the fort journal Tony Darcangelo polished the chitty chitty bang bang movie car before it was rolled to the auction ring at the Auburn Spring motor fair in Ralph Spencer of bought the winged roadster for owner of mulch manufacturing already owns a 1966 Batto bile and said he had his eyes on the winged car for the past few Ive always liked this he study tech search terms Are Riskiest by Anick jes Danu the associated press new York search terms related to music and technology Are most Likely to return Sites with spy Ware and other malicious a new study some 42 percent of the results using the term for led to Sites flagged with a red warning or a cautionary yellow by Mcafee sit advisor other keywords Mcafee deemed risky include names of file sharing software Kazan and in Many the programs come bundled with adware and toolbars Mcafee considers according to Mcafee the state of search engine safety that was scheduled for release Mcafee found it slightly safer to use search engines although about 4 percent of search results Lead to Sites deemed that Down from 5 percent a year weve seen some incremental Steps in the right i said Mark senior product manager for but the average Joe user should be aware theres still plenty to be concerned risks Are greater when clicking on keyword ads that make up much of search companies revenues according to 7 percent of such links pro Duce risky Down from percent a year the study was conducted by running about popular keywords through the top five search engines Google Yahoo Microsoft time Warner Al and the sold under the Brand name is approved in the United states and dozens of other countries to treat advanced kid Ney it is marketed by Bayer pharmaceuticals and Onyx pharmaceuticals which funded the liver cancer they Hope to receive approval for liver cancer use from and foreign Llovet has done consulting for the liver cancer is diagnosed in about americans annually but is much More common else where and is the fifth most com Mon cancer Hyundai tops in 07 Quality study Detroit when it comes to car it May be time to Start thinking Hyundai motor leads in five categories in the annual vehicle Quality study released monday by strategic vision a san Diego based Market research company and consultant to Auto Hyundai azera led among Large and its Santa be led among Small sport Utility Lehi its entourage was tied for Best minivan with the quest by Nissan motor and the Sedona by Hyundai affiliate Kia motors the Kia Sorento led among medium strategic vision Bow a led in four and Ford motor and Daimler Chrysler a led in three credit report violations visited Washington the supreme court on monday scaled Back a Standard that would have made it easier for Consumers to win lawsuits against companies for violating the fair credit re porting the Law requires insurance companies and other businesses to notify customers who Are charged More because of their credit the justices modified a Stan Dard of the 9th circuit court of appeals in san Francisco that the insurance Industry said could have subjected it to billions of Dol Lars in punitive damages for fail ing to notify thirteen state insurance commissioners said that a lower threshold for proving liability would motivate compliance with the congressman Jefferson of Louisiana indicted Washington will Iam was indicted monday on Federal charges of soliciting bribes and Money laundering in a Long running bribery investigation into business deals he tried to broker in the indictment handed up in Federal court in is More than an Inch thick and list 16 alleged violations of Federal Law that could keep Jefferson in prison for up to 200 from the associated press  
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