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25 Years Ago – 1996 Julie Kottsick, sponsored by the Hair For You Salon, has been crowned the 1996 Winter Daze Queen during the annual pageant held at the Mandan High School Auditorium. Peggy Wright, sponsored by Brunsoman, Leifur and Mattern Dental Associates, Bismarck, was chosen as the Winter Daze Princess. Kottsick will reign over all Winter Daze events during February. This year’s theme was “Remember When.” Nine candidates participated in the pageant. This year’s Winter Daze activities include: a Caribbean Beach Party, with dancing in the sand to “Night L...

 E-Mail WASHINGTON, DC - Investigators leading the Lung Cancer Master Protocol, or Lung-MAP trial, will present findings from three translational medicine studies at the 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer, to be held online January 28-31, 2021. The presentations will mark the first time that investigators share translational medicine insights from Lung-MAP, the first large-scale precision medicine trial in lung cancer backed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the first major NCI trial to test multiple treatments, simultaneously, under one...

We received news last week of the death of Fred Hirsch ((Nov. 11, 1933 – Dec.15, 2020), a true working class hero. Fred was a giant in the struggle for all human rights, especially labor rights, and a true internationalist. He was Vice President of the Plumber & Pipefitters Local 393 of Santa Clara and San Benito Counties in California. His activism was always rooted in his being a worker and a union member. Fred had a significant and continuing impact on us at the Alliance for Global Justice. He was a founder of our Worker to Worker Solidarity Committee. He not only proposed its name, but ...

As COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out, an extremely vulnerable group is being overlooked: millions of cancer patients. Doctors nationwide are sounding the alarm that many state governments and the federal advisory committee charged with prioritizing who gets vaccinated should move cancer patients up to the front of the line, right after nursing home residents and frontline health care workers. Right now, they're deemed a lower priority than "essential workers" such as firefighters and mass transit employees. Yet cancer patients are getting decimated by COVID-19. New data from 360 U.S. hos...

As COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out, an extremely vulnerable group is being overlooked: millions of cancer patients. Doctors nationwide are sounding the...