Judge orders teen to cancer treatment
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A judge has ruled that a 16-year-old boy fighting to use alternative treatment for his cancer must report to a hospital by Tuesday and accept treatment that doctors deem necessary, the family's attorney said.
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After Marci Smith was told she had a malignant brain tumor, she had surgery and then made an appointment with an oncologist to receive chemotherapy and radiation.
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Yueqi Guo, a 17-year-old senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, grew up hearing that her grandfather in China had died because doctors failed to recognize his cancer until it was too late.
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A Texas high school student convicted of a double murder waits on death row as the Supreme Court weighs the constitutionality of the juvenile death penalty.
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A Forsyth Central High School student has been diagnosed with tuberculosis by officials from the state Health Department. The 11th-grader has not attended school since Sept.
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SAN SALVADOR -- The first patient of the day was a plump 16-year-old wearing sparkly barrettes, Mary Jane-style shoes, and a shy smile.
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Commissioner Reva Goetz of Los Angeles County Superior Court appointed a physician on Monday to determine if Britney Spears, 26, is competent to make decisions, The Associated Press reported. While Ms. Spears continues to be held in a psychiatric ward, the judge also barred that troubled singer from contact with her friend and sometime manager Sam Lutfi, and extended until Feb. 14 the conservatorship over her personal and financial affairs granted last week to her father, James Spears, and her lawyer Andrew Wallet.
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Robin Roberts, who had surgery last month for breast cancer, was to begin chemotherapy Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Some kids with Hodgkin's  disease, a form of lymphoma, may not need to undergo radiation  treatment, German doctors have found.
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A 17-year-old Argentine has won a court battle to undergo surgery to become a female, the first decision of its kind involving a minor in Argentina, news reports said Thursday.
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WASHINGTON The first new cancer drug in ten years that is specifically designed to help children is a step closer to approval. An advisory panel at the Food and Drug Administration is recommending the use
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A judge rules that doctors caring for a terminally-ill baby can withhold treatment if his condition worsens.
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When Diana Menendez was diagnosed with Hodgkin&#39;s disease in 1968 at age 8, doctors weren&#39;t sure they could cure her. So they hit her cancer with everything they had: high-dose radiation and four years of chemotherapy.
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Report Simona Torretta helped Iraqi teenager go to Italy to get treated for leukemia in a Rome hospital. ROME - An Iraqi teenager who was treated for leukemia in a Rome hospital owes her life to aid worker
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For more than three weeks, despite medical tests and home remedies, a teenager has been hiccuping. A lot.
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A 15-year-old girl is to spend Christmas in custody because she is "out of control", a High Court judge rules.
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Parents who lost a son to cancer have built a website using their own funds to help other patients make sense of complicated treatment information. By Kristen Philipkoski.