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Breakthrough Cancer Care
Charles Farber, MD, PhD, hematologist/oncologist at Atlantic Hematology Oncology, located at Morristown Medical Center’s Carol G. Simon Cancer Center, and medical director of Oncology Research Network Development for Atlantic Health System, is leading a new study that will allow patients with a rare type of blood-cell cancer to get access to a new treatment now in use for another type of lymphoma. The study, which is for patients who have a type of lymphoma known as Waldenström macroglobulinemia, uses a new drug known as a ...
HeartBeats
The olive tree, with its ancient roots, is strongly identified with a region and a cuisine. More than just a tree, it has come to symbolize peace, wisdom, persistence, longevity, healing, prosperity, stability, friendship, victory and tranquility. Why is such importance attributed to this dusty, twisted, gnarly shrub? The olive tree is a small evergreen tree that is indigenous to the Mediterranean basin. Olive groves ring the Mediterranean Sea from Portugal to Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey, the Levant, Egypt and along the North African ...
Liz on Theatre
NEW BRUNSWICK,NJ - A riveting, timely play is now on view at George Street Playhouse, exploring the conflict between Senators Margaret Chase Smith and Joseph McCarthy. With the red scare taking place in the U.S., Smith became concerned that McCarthy had created an atmosphere of fear, where citizens were afraid to speak out. They might be labeled Communists or Fascists. Countless careers and lives were ruined during the decade of the 1950s. Smith’s declaration of conscience cost her political support, but paved the way and planted ...
