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Barbie Will Get Bald Friend

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:33:34 CDT

Barbie-maker Mattel is creating a special doll for children who have lost their hair to illness. The new doll will be bald and a friend of Barbie, and she'll come with fashion accessories including hats, scarves, and wigs. Earlier this year, a Facebook campaign that garnered 150,000 "likes" urged...

Induced Labor Lets Dying Dad See Baby

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:00:12 CST

A Texas man with only a few days left to live held his newborn baby daughter for the first time—because his wife had her labor induced two weeks early, the AP reports. Holding tiny Savannah in a hospital bed, Mark Aulger "cried, and he just looked very sad," says...

Chavez Stays in Venezuela for 3rd Round of Chemo

Mark Russell — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 05:36:01 CDT

Hugo Chavez will undergo a third round of chemotherapy for his cancer today, this time in Venezuela instead of Cuba, reports Reuters . The 57-year-old socialist leader went to Cuba in June to have a baseball-sized tumor removed and returned there twice for chemotherapy, but his opting to stay at home...

Post-Chemo, Hugo Chavez Returns Home

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 12:40:08 CDT

He's baaaaack: Hugo Chavez returned to Venezuela early today, after completing a second round of chemotherapy in Cuba, reports CNN . "Good morning, beloved homeland," Chavez tweeted today. "What a beautiful full moon greeted us at midnight." The Venezuelan president is now hairless after an earlier round of chemotherapy , but appeared...

More Cancer Patients Try Risky 'Hot Chemo Bath'

Matt Cantor — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:30:05 CDT

A combination of surgery and heated chemotherapy is rising in popularity—even though patients compare it “to being filleted, disemboweled and then bathed in hot poison,” writes Andrew Pollack in the New York Times . The surgery plus heated chemo, or Hipec, involves cutting the patient open, probing the body for...

Hugo Chavez's Hair Disappears

Matt Cantor — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:07:05 CDT

Hugo Chavez, who is undergoing chemotherapy , revealed what he called a "new look" on TV: a shaved head. In a ceremony with his ministers yesterday, the Venezuelan president said his cancer treatment has been going well, the Telegraph reports. “I went to bathe and a bit of hair fell out,...

Chavez Back in Venezuela After Chemo

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:54:44 CDT

Hugo Chavez is back on Venezuelan soil after undergoing a week of chemotherapy in Cuba, reports the AP, trumpeting on national television that "This body of mine, of a cadet and a soldier, held up." The 56-year-old Venezuelan president landed last night to a red-carpet welcome, telling watchers that though...

Chavez Heads to Cuba: 'It's Time to Live'

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 06:01:16 CDT

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned to Cuba to begin chemotherapy nearly a month after surgery to remove a tumor, and he is expressing optimism the treatment will help him survive his cancer. Chavez said he would start the treatment in Havana today in an attempt to ensure cancer cells...

Chavez Going Back to Cuba for Treatment

Polly Davis Doig — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 05:48:14 CDT

Hugo Chavez is returning to Cuba today for further cancer treatment, which this time will include chemotherapy in order to, as he says, "armor the body against new malignant cells." Chavez made the surprise announcement yesterday, reports the AP, asking lawmakers' permission to return to the country where he had...