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Kathy Griffin is on the mend. The comedian gave a "TMI" update on her life, sharing that she was hospitalized after undergoing a medical procedure. "I spent the night in the hospital because I had ...

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It turns out that despite everything you’ve heard, getting a colonoscopy is wonderful. By Sam Anderson For many of us, a colonoscopy is a distant inevitable horror, like the heat death of the universe ...

ABSTRACT: Since long surgical excision of the tumors, followed by anti-cancer therapy, and irradiation were the basic tenets of management of all malignancies. Recently, Dendritic Cells (DCs) therapy ...