| STILL FIGHTING: Prostate cancer survivor helps others with the disease
Larry Puccio beat prostate cancer 12 years ago, but he's still fighting the disease. Only now, he's doing it to help newly diagnosed men and survivors who need information and hope. The retired engineer joined a prostate cancer support group soon after his surgery in 1996 at Somerset Medical Center in Somerville. In 2005, he and his wife, Grace, moved from their Hillsborough home to the Holiday City South seniors development in Berkeley. Puccio decided to look for a new support group. He had an obligation to do so, he says in his quiet but measured way.
September 2007
East for the Red Sox but it's not confirmed if the resulting revelry may have played a role. Barnstable Police charged 29-year old Donal McNulty of Quincy with assault and battery and malicious destruction of property. We'll bring you further details as we get them from Barnstable Police. (Photos by Frank Paparo). SWAT team moves in on Fresh Holes Road as series of raids continue SWAT team members make entry at a house on Fresh Holes Road to make warrant arrests.HYANNIS - A SWAT team descended on a house at 50 Fresh Holes Road late Friday afternoon. Two people were arrested reportedly on outstanding warrants. It was the continuation of a now three-day push by local and state police in Yarmouth and Hyannis. 13 people were arrested on Wednesday and Thursday.
Transplant anti-rejection drugs studied
EVANSTON, Ill., Jan. 29 U.S. scientists are using stem cells from kidney donors' bone marrow to possibly eliminate the need for anti-rejection drugs in transplant patients.
After a transplant surgery, anti-rejection drugs for the organ recipient are required but such drugs also present the potential of infection, heart disease and cancer.
If it's successfully, the new research -- led by Dr. Joshua Miller of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine -- would mean a dramatic change in post-transplant procedures.
Northwestern, one of four U.S. facilities involved in the research, has received a four-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to enroll 20 patients in the study.
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