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Lung tumors can often be biopsied without surgery unless lymph nodes are involved. In that case, the procedure needs to be more invasive and recovery takes much longer, but now doctors at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance are using a newer approach that’s much easier on the patient.

You know what our problem is, Madison? We’re “satisficers.”

Richard Frank Maulhardt, Sr., long-time farmer and third-generation descendant of the first families to grow crops in the Oxnard Plain in the late 1860s died last week after a short illness.He was 88.Maulhardt and his wife of 64 years, Ruth, continued to live on the land his great grandfather first tilled in 1869 in a home that was built just after the turn of the last century.Surrounding the …

A new report from the National Cancer Institute did show an increase in…

Not long ago, I had one of those moments that only other parents or full-time caregivers of young children are likely to understand: I was sitting in our family room holding my miserably sick baby, who was sneezing, coughing and drooling all over me, when my older son stumbled into the room and s…