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To San Antonio's newest online healthcare and bioscience community and to The HCB Newsletter, feeder publication to the San Antonio Healthcare & Bioscience Magazine and website, www.hcbmagazine.com.
In this week's issue (which is a little light due to the past Thanksgiving holiday) you'll find the latest news and stories on some of San Antonio's finest unsung heroes, local businesses, and organizations who are helping to shape and strengthen our healthcare community and lead San Antonio towards building a stronger national and global presence.
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Celebrate the Science of San Antonio at BioMed SA Annual Business Meeting |
 BioMed SA, San Antonio, Texas - December 1, 2008Updates from the San Antonio biomedical industry's four key "pillars" or segments will highlight BioMed SA's Annual Business Meeting breakfast December 10 at the Omni Hotel. In addition to these industry updates, BioMed SA President Ann Stevens will brief attendees on the organization's progress in promoting San Antonio's healthcare and bioscience assets to accelerate industry growth and enhance San Antonio's reputation as a city of science and health. Full Story. |
Dr. Ian M. Thompson Jr. Receives National Award for Advancing Cancer Science |
 Cancer Therapy Research Center, San Antonio, TX - December 1, 2008
Ian M. Thompson Jr., M.D., will be given the highest award bestowed by the Society of Urologic Oncology at its annual meeting Dec. 4 in Bethesda, Md. Dr. Thompson, who served as president of the society in 2004, is professor and chairman of the Department of Urology and holder of the Henry B. and Edna Smith Dielmann Memorial Chair in Urologic Science at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He also holds the Glenda and Gary Woods Distinguished Chair in Genitourinary Oncology at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center at the UT Health Science Center. The Society will present Dr. Thompson with its Huggins Medal, awarded annually for outstanding contributions in furthering the science of urological oncology and in furthering patient care for individuals with genitourinary cancer. Full Story. |
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European Ancestry Increases Breast Cancer Risk among Latinas |
 American Association for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, PA - December 1, 2008Latina women have a lower risk of breast cancer than European or African-American women generally, but those with higher European ancestry could be at increased risk, according to data published in the December 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. For the current study, Fejerman and colleagues identified the genetic ancestry of 440 Latina women with breast cancer and 597 Latina women who did not have breast cancer. "We need to study the possible factors that are placing Latina women of high European ancestry at greater risk," said Laura Fejerman, Ph.D., a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of California San Francisco. "The increased risk could be due to environmental factors, genetic factors or the interplay of the two." Full Story. |
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