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Longtime ESPN college basketball announcer Dick Vitale said on Wednesday that he is taking a step back from the broadcast booth amid his latest battle with cancer. Vitale announced in October that he had been diagnosed with lymphoma, his second cancer diagnosis in three months. After meeting with a throat specialist in Massachusetts this week, Vitale said it was recommended that he take a break. “I’ve been having some issues with my voice and I needed to see what was going on,” Vitale Source link

(Adds details on Trillium’s drug candidates, share movement) Aug 23 (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc said on Monday it would buy Canadian drug developer Trillium Therapeutics Inc in a $2.26 billion deal to strengthen its arsenal of blood cancer therapies. Pfizer, which acquired a $25 million stake in Trillium last year, will buy the remaining outstanding shares for $18.50 apiece, representing a 203.8% premium on the stock’s last closing price. Pfizer expects to benefit from Canada-based Trillium’s… Source link

Tiger Woods has understandably kept a low profile since the February car crash that left him with substantial leg injuries. He’s made social media appearances, including a congratulatory tweet to his old rival Phil Mickelson for his PGA Championship victory on Sunday. But until this week, he’s only been known to show himself in public once — an April photo on crutches that he shared on Instagram.  On Monday, a new photo of Woods surfaced on social media. This one he didn’t provide. It was… Source link

Largest Gathering of Advocates From Across the Country Use Their Voices, Calling on Congress to Fund Pancreatic Cancer Research LOS ANGELES, May 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Registration has officially opened for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s (PanCAN) Action Week Voices in Action event. The leading pancreatic cancer patient advocacy organization is mobilizing advocates nationwide to join together for its first-ever Voices in Action virtual evening event where participants will hear… Source link

When Google renamed itself Alphabet Inc. in 2015, co-founder Larry Page revealed that one of the new name’s meanings was a pun: alpha-bet, as in “a bet on investment returns above a benchmark.” This implied that the so-called “Other Bets” in Google’s financial reports — subsidiaries that work on projects ranging from self-driving cars to cancer cures — aren’t just moonshot bids to make the world better, but potential businesses… Source link

Hologic has tapped Google Cloud to help elevate its digital pathology platforms for diagnosing cervical cancer with new artificial intelligence and machine learning programs. The medtech’s Genius cytology system digitally stacks 2D images of a patient’s cells to provide additional visual depth to glass Pap test slides and uses AI to select the scans that may be the most relevant to the pathologist’s task of spotting precancerous lesions and signs of cervical… Source link

Leon Spinks, an undersized heavyweight who became undisputed champion when he outworked Muhammad Ali over 15 rounds in 1978, died Friday at 67 after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. Along with his brother, Michael, Spinks was a gold medal winner on the 1976 U.S. Olympic boxing team that is regarded as one of the great teams in boxing history. His son, Cory, a slick defender who became the undisputed welterweight champion in 2003, was born on Feb. 20, 1978, five days after his father… Source link

The Guardian Belichick’s exit plan and a JJ Watt trade: NFL subplots to watch in 2021 Will Aaron Rodgers depart Green Bay after an MVP-caliber season? Will Bill Belichick leave New England before it turns ugly? There’s no shortage of meaty NFL plotlines in 2021The NFL’s general attitude towards 2020 can be summed up succinctly: What pandemic?Whereas other leagues ground to a halt, considered voiding their seasons, entered into complex bubbles or faced existential crises, the NFL thundered… Source link