Famed cancer researcher Folkman dies
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Dr. Judah Folkman, a groundbreaking researcher who worked to cut off cancer from its blood supply, curing the disease in mice and giving humans hope for a cure, has died. He was 74.
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Luciano Pavarotti, the most celebrated opera singer of modern times, died this morning in his home near Modena.  Mr. Pavarotti, 71, had been suffering from pancreatic cancer since July 2006. Although his family had said he was in remission, hi...
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Dr. Lee Jong-wook, who led the U.N. health agency&#039;s battles against SARS and bird flu, died Monday following surgery for a blood clot in the brain. He was 61.
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Willem Oltmans, without doubt the Netherlands' most colourful and controversial journalist, succumbed to cancer at the age of 79 in his hometown Amsterdam on Thursday.
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Scientist Professor David Parry has paid tribute to Nobel Prize winner and New Zealand born scientist Maurice Wilkins who has died at the age of 88.
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Maurice Wilkins, 88, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 along with the two scientists credited for describing the structure of DNA, Francis Crick and James Watson, died Tuesday at a London hospital.
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By News Sentinel staff  A noted scientist and former director of the University of Tennessee's McClung Museum died Tuesday of complications from a stroke.  Dr. Paul W.
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BBC journalist Ivan Noble, whose online  diary about his brain tumor treatment touched hearts around the  world, has died at the age of 37.
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An anti-smoking guru who has helped millions of smokers to kick the habit has died from lung cancer.
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Earl Ubell, 80, a print and broadcast medical and science journalist who covered the leading health and science breakthroughs of the post-war age in a lively and effective style, died May 30 at Actors Fund Home in Englewood, N.J. He had Parkinson's disease and dementia.
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Legendary rock drummer and Hall of Fame inductee Jim Capaldi died on Friday after a brief fight with stomach cancer, his publicist said.
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The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, once a spiritual advisor to the Beatles, died Tuesday in his Dutch home, a spokesman for the Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation movement told the ANP news agency here early Wednesday.
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Swedish Nobel Prize laureate Sune Bergstroem, who shared the 1982 medicine award for research that led to new treatments for ulcers and menstrual pain, has died.
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MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. - "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, who turned personal tragedy into a public crusade and from his wheelchair became the nation's most recognizable spokesman for spinal cord research, has died...
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Nuclear scientist Raja Ramanna passed away in a Mumbai hospital on Friday morning following an intestinal problem. Ramanna, 79, was admitted to Bombay Hospital on Thursday after he complained of giddiness and sweating.
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Howard Keel died Sunday morning colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif., according to his son, Gunnar. Among the broad-shouldered baritone movie musical credits were &quot;Annie Get Your Gun,&quot; opposite
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Scientists yesterday mourned Maurice Wilkins, sometimes called the forgotten man of DNA, who died in hospital on Tuesday aged 88. Wilkins, a professor at King&#39;s College London, shared the 1962 Nobel prize