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Topic: cancer

March 7, 2013
12:52 pm

Valerie Harper traveled to Israel in 2007 for a screening of her film about Golda Meir. (YouTube screenshot)

Zionist ‘Rhoda’ star has terminal cancer

Valerie Harper, who announced her diagnosis Wednesday, offered high praise during 2007 visit to Israel

By Times of Israel staff

March 6, 2013
12:16 am

A woman holds a picture of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and the country's national flag in Caracas, Venezuela last Wednesday. (photo credit: AP/Ariana Cubillos)

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez dead at 58

Latin American leader had long been suffering from cancer; vice president says he was ‘poisoned like Arafat’

March 2, 2013
10:13 am

A banner bearing a photo of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is displayed on the military hospital where the ailing leader is continuing his recovery from surgery related to an unspecified cancer (photo credit: AP/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela rejects ‘absurd’ rumors over Chavez’s death

From the web Reuters: Family members and close aides say socialist leader continues to fight for his life in Caracas hospital

March 2, 2013
8:56 am

In this photo released in January, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, center, poses for a photo with his daughters, Maria Gabriela, left, and Rosa Virginia at an unknown location in Havana, Cuba (photo credit: AP/Miraflores Presidential Press Office)

Chavez undergoing chemotherapy, admits VP

Vice president says Venezuelan leader wanted to be back in Caracas for ‘more intense and tough’ treatments

March 1, 2013
12:54 pm

Irish TV host Vincent Browne has expressed regret for his word choice, but insists his comments on Israel weren't anti-Semitic. (YouTube screenshot)

Irish channel must apologize for show calling Israel ‘cancer’

National broadcasting regulator rejects claim that comments were anti-Semitic, but says host failed to meet standards of fairness

By Eamon Delaney

March 1, 2013
1:51 am

Chavez ‘fighting for his life,’ but Venezuelans harbor hope

Poll finds three in five believe recovery possible, despite speculation that leader’s end is near

February 23, 2013
8:19 am

Venezuelans hold candlelight vigil for Chavez

Officials insist that ailing president, unseen in public for months, is still in charge

By Ian James

February 21, 2013
6:11 am

A poster of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez decorates a motorbike near the military hospital where Chavez is allegedly receiving treatment in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday (photo credit: AP/Ariana Cubillos)

Bolivian leader unable to visit Chavez in hospital

Since his reported return to Caracas on Monday, no images have been released of the ailing Venezuelan president

February 20, 2013
8:11 pm

A screenshot of a video of the boy in Thailand. (Screenshot Channel 2 via YouTube)

Israeli boy on his own in Buddhist monastery

Child sent to Thailand by parents to recover from cancer; authorities call in parents

By Adiv Sterman

February 16, 2013
11:04 am

Chavez pics emerge after two months of speculation

Officials in Venezuela say president’s condition is ‘delicate’; communist leader breathing through a tracheal tube

February 12, 2013
3:28 pm

An art therapist with a background in Jewish studies, Shira Frimer hopes her new book will inspire young children fighting cancer. (Avi Jacob)

Widow combines Kabbalah and comics to fight cancer

In a new graphic novel aimed at kids battling the disease, art therapist Shira Frimer turns her husband into a superhero

By Sharon Kanon

December 20, 2012
10:53 am

Benny Gantz (left) and Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (2nd right), along with other former chiefs of staff in Tel Aviv, October 2011 (photo credit: Meir Partush/Flash90)

IDF chief Gantz, in farewell note to Lipkin-Shahak, hails his predecessor’s ‘sobering sanity’

Army’s 15th chief of staff, who died of cancer on Wednesday, being laid to rest Thursday in Tel Aviv

By Aaron Kalman and Times of Israel staff

December 17, 2012
4:17 am

The Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (photo credit: Yoel Goldman/Times of Israel staff)

Israeli, Gazan patients bond

Best of friends At a Tel Aviv hospital, two teens from opposite sides of the border make friends over Playstation while battling the same type of cancer, reports The Daily Beast

November 30, 2012
9:34 pm

Gross biopsy results ‘hopeful’ but not determinative, lawyer says

Cuba asked to allow imprisoned US Jewish contractor to be examined by his own doctor

November 28, 2012
8:03 pm

Alan and Judy Gross at the Western Wall in the spring of 2005. (Courtesy of the Gross family)

Cuba denies imprisoned US Jew has cancer

New York rabbi who also works as a gastroenterologist backs Havana’s claim about Alan Gross’ health

By Jessica Gresko

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