Rosetta Puts Blood-Based Cancer Screen on Back Burner to Refocus on miRNA Diagnostics (GenomeWeb News)

Rosetta Genomics this month announced that it has scaled back its work on a serum-based colon cancer-screening assay based on microRNA biomarkers, less than a year after the company said that commercialization of the test, dubbed miRscreen Colon, had become its top priority.

Meet Quebec's 'Mr. Asbestos' (Toronto Star)

Bernard Coulombe has big plans for a mineral shunned here but valued in the developing world.

Kindred spirit is making a difference year round (Foxboro Reporter)

Geraldine "Gerry" Parker, 79, of Foxboro, has given more than 2,000 hours of her time as a health care volunteer. That service equates to 84 'round-the-clock days.

Mystery lawn cutter identified (Community Press & Recorder)

Rita and Harry Adler of Madeira traveled far and wide earlier this year before they found a doctor who diagnosed him with lung cancer.

Canada's booming asbestos market (Toronto Star)

The cancer-causing mineral is prized in India, even as it is reviled here. Jennifer Wells investigates the demand for a product we shun â€" but still mine.

Armonk woman cares for caregivers (The Journal News)

MOUNT KISCO â€" When Marian Hamilton walks into a patient's room at Northern Westchester Hospital, she greets the sick person lying in bed, as hospital volunteers often do.

Community remembers Greg Kannerstein, 67: 'The living history of Haverford College' (Main Line Times)

HAVERFORD â€" The tributes continued to pour in for Haverford College legend Greg Kannerstein, who passed away last week of complications from mesothelioma at the age of 67.

Advocate’s work for asbestos victims spans 35 years (Daily Inter Lake)

LIBBY â€" It was six funerals in six weeks that prompted Gayla Benefield to lay down her torch a couple of years ago.

Residents demand answers about toxicity of asbestos (Daily Inter Lake)

LIBBY â€" Frustration boiled over Tuesday at a meeting in Libby where federal scientists were long on technical explanations but short on answers about how toxic Libby’s unique form of asbestos really is.

Local women provide meals for hospice patients (The Palladium-Times)

Two Oswego women took the positive experiences hospice provided for their families during their time of need and decided to give back by donating home-cooked meals for hospice patients and their families this Thanksgiving.