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Cord blood transplants a viable option in leukemia: "patients fare as well with stem cell transplants taken from a cord blood bank as they do from a well-suited adult donor"

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:29 PM | Add Comment

Nutrients may be why some smokers avoid cancer

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2010 3:12 PM | Add Comment

A beautiful article about finding an old friend after a purchase of a book with an old inscription

Posted by kluciole at 6/12/2010 1:54 PM | Add Comment

Beautiful story, great work everyone! "Galloping back to health: 17 horses left starving after years of abuse are given a new lease of life"

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2010 3:12 PM | Add Comment

Drug boosts survival in major melanoma (skin cancer) study

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:27 PM | Add Comment

8 scientists share lucrative Kavli Prizes "for work that has helped humans explore distant corners of the universe and the tiniest particles on Earth"

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 4:13 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "When Death Comes" by Mary Oliver (previously posted)

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2010 10:29 PM | Add Comment

Effort aims to rescue horses: Farm diverts animals from slaughterhouses

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 6:15 PM | Add Comment

Park de Triomphe - the day French farmers turned the Champs-Elysees into a garden

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:25 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Photo: (Nazret, Ethiopia) Women wait to cast their vote at a polling station

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 5:03 PM | Add Comment

Poem by Emily Brontë: "A Day Dream"

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 5:21 PM | Add Comment

Poem: "Courage" by Anne Sexton

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 1:58 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

An essay from Luciole friend/contributor Christine McClintock: "Child Abuse - The Fight to Protect"

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Woke up this morning and thought about Alphonse de Lamartine's "The Lake," which I have posted before. So, two other poems, "Butterfly" and "Memory"

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:58 AM | Add Comment

Meltdown, volcano: Weary Icelanders ask, what next

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Quote about living from Agatha Christie; painting, "Moon" by Alphonse Mucha

Posted by kluciole at 4/25/2010 3:49 PM | Add Comment

Omega 3s may help cut colon cancer risk

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2010 3:50 PM | Add Comment

Hailed a hero: German shepherd called Buddy led police down winding back-roads to owner's burning home

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2010 3:18 PM | Add Comment

TIME article -- School Bullying Prevention: Teach Empathy at Young Age

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 11:10 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Mexico rejects church criticism of sex education

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Use of vitamin supplements 'can reduce long-term risk of contracting breast cancer'

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2010 2:09 PM | Add Comment

Testing lung tumors tailors chemotherapy, matching tumors to targeted drugs to choose the best drug for an individual patient

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2010 1:57 PM | Add Comment

Silk brain implant could aid spinal injuries, epilepsy

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2010 1:55 PM | Add Comment

Home found for orphaned seal delivered by hunter

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2010 2:06 AM | Add Comment

RIP Wilma Mankiller: Remembering First Female Chief Of Cherokee Nation

Posted by kluciole at 4/7/2010 2:43 PM | Add Comment

Scientists: "Toads are a telltale sign for impending quakes"

Posted by kluciole at 3/30/2010 11:00 PM | Add Comment

Photo: US Marines feed a stray puppy in northern Marjah, Helmand province in Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 3/29/2010 12:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

In paying for sex changes, Cuba breaks from past

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2010 7:13 PM | Add Comment

Japanese dolphin hunters bitter as 'The Cove' wins Oscar

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:07 AM | Add Comment

Frosty the cat survives FOUR WEEKS in a chilled food warehouse... by eating frozen peas

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 9:55 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Removing Lymph Nodes May Boost Endometrial Cancer Survival

Posted by kluciole at 2/26/2010 10:19 PM | Add Comment

Bitter Melon Extract May Slow, Stop Breast Cancer

Posted by kluciole at 2/24/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

There's quite a story behind the Olympic flowers

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 1:14 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Luciole Press is on hiatus until the next issue, to be published May 1 (important to read this)

Posted by kluciole at 2/15/2010 5:06 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

The Healing Power of Herbal Tea

Posted by kluciole at 2/9/2010 4:06 AM | Add Comment

Great essay from Luciole's Emma-Jayne Saanen (send love to Dougal): "Would you lend a paw? Would you stop to help an injured animal?"

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:39 PM | Add Comment

13 countries agree plan to save wild tigers

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2010 9:38 PM | Add Comment

Incredible journey: How Baltic the scrappy dog drifted 90 miles on a piece of ice down a river and out to sea before being rescued

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2010 11:41 AM | Add Comment

'Dogs of war' saving lives in Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2010 11:35 AM | Add Comment

Stunning recovery: Haitian girl pulled from debris 15 days after the quake

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2010 6:35 PM | Add Comment

Gene discovery may help guide breast cancer care

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2010 10:43 PM | Add Comment

Entombed by the Haitian earthquake: survivor buried for 11 days in coffin-like space beneath the rubble

Posted by kluciole at 1/24/2010 10:23 PM | Add Comment

If smokers with cancer quit, they double their survival chances

Posted by kluciole at 1/22/2010 10:35 PM | Add Comment

Study: Fast morphine treatment to wounded troops cuts risk of PTSD in half

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 9:40 PM | Add Comment

How to help survivors of quake in Haiti

Posted by kluciole at 1/13/2010 9:36 PM | Add Comment

Stem Cell Research Gets a Boost From Vitamin C

Posted by kluciole at 1/9/2010 3:18 AM | Add Comment

Afghanistan's first skatepark mixes rich and poor

Posted by kluciole at 1/8/2010 3:11 AM | Add Comment

Outdoors delight: Maine triples conserved acreage

Posted by kluciole at 1/8/2010 3:06 AM | Add Comment

Ultra-Orthodox Jews make rare visit to Gaza in show of support for Palestinians

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 5:51 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Celebrate the new year early with the newly published Winter 2010 Issue of Luciole Press! Here is the Table of Contents

Posted by kluciole at 12/31/2009 3:04 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Indian tribes buy back thousands of acres of land

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:22 PM | Add Comment

Pomegranate lotion offers new hope in war on superbugs like MRSA

Posted by kluciole at 12/27/2009 10:17 PM | Add Comment

Cat finds way home after 11 days, 2 broken legs

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2009 9:51 AM | Add Comment

5 years later: Some struggles, a lot of hope, for tsunami orphans

Posted by kluciole at 12/25/2009 9:43 AM | Add Comment

Photos: Afghan children, refugees in Pakistan, play in their neighborhood of Rawalpindi

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 4:06 AM | Add Comment

Uganda parliament outlaws female genital mutilation

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:54 PM | Add Comment

Stephen King and his wife donate money so 150 soldiers can come home for the holidays

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Photo: students in Massachussets light luminary candles to celebrate 2009 and offer hope for 2010

Posted by kluciole at 12/11/2009 6:49 PM | Add Comment

The Robin Hood Food Bank for New York City -- (4 million NYC residents experience difficulty affording food)

Posted by kluciole at 12/11/2009 6:34 PM | Add Comment

Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate

Posted by kluciole at 12/11/2009 6:25 PM | Add Comment

From Luciole friend/contributor Geraldine Green: ~ Poetry In Aid of Cumbria Flood Recovery ~

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:57 PM | Add Comment

Iraqi reunited with mother 20 years after Halabja gas attack massacre

Posted by kluciole at 12/6/2009 8:20 PM | Add Comment

Project C.U.R.E.: Delivering Health & Hope to the World (sending donated medical supplies and equipment to developing countries)

Posted by kluciole at 12/4/2009 6:30 PM | Add Comment

Photo: the world's largest fingerpainting, created on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities in India

Posted by kluciole at 12/4/2009 6:23 PM | Add Comment

Flash mob ballet for charity: 50 dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet astound Louvre museum-goers, leave behind slippers with children's medical charity address

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:16 PM | Add Comment

South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:06 PM | Add Comment

Broadway shows returning to New Orleans

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2009 4:31 PM | Add Comment

Wrong Number Miracle: Mom was going to miss mortgage payment if she sent daughter food money; the stranger who took the call decided to help

Posted by kluciole at 11/30/2009 4:13 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Prison theatre drama an escape for Romanian inmates

Posted by kluciole at 11/28/2009 12:04 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poem from Luciole friend/contributor Scott Wannberg: "my so called thanksgiving riff for 2009"

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 1:23 AM | Add Comment

Alert from Luciole friend S.A. Griffin: Dairyland Greyhound Racetrack in Kenosha is closing, and the greyhounds need to be adopted!

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 11:00 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Taiwanese fashion designer Colin Lin uses recycled paper in shoemaking

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 6:02 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Palestinian girls release balloons with messages attached, during an event organized by UNICEF to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2009 10:15 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Quote from Thich Nhat Hanh

Posted by kluciole at 11/20/2009 10:11 PM | Add Comment

Quote from the Dalai Lama

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 6:32 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Quotes from Victor Hugo

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:09 PM | Add Comment

India to move all zoo elephants to wildlife parks

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2009 6:34 PM | Add Comment

MIA bomb-sniffing dog found in Afghanistan after 14 months

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2009 1:08 AM | Add Comment

Happy tales for some former fighting dogs

Posted by kluciole at 11/11/2009 9:40 AM | Add Comment

Is this the only white tiger cub in the wild? Newborn gets a bath from Mom in South Africa

Posted by kluciole at 11/9/2009 7:33 PM | Add Comment

Article: "Cervical cancer wiped out by pioneering use of 'amazing' osteoporosis and breast cancer drugs"

Posted by kluciole at 11/9/2009 7:14 PM | Add Comment

Blueprint of horse genetic code reveals remarkable similarity to humans

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2009 2:54 PM | Add Comment

Quote from Oscar Wilde

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2009 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Pakistan's fashionistas defy Taliban

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2009 2:32 PM | Add Comment

West Africa's last giraffes make surprise comeback

Posted by kluciole at 11/7/2009 2:21 PM | Add Comment

To defang Taliban, some look to private schools: "the quality of public education is deteriorating day by day... when there's a vacuum of quality, someone will fill it"

Posted by kluciole at 11/7/2009 2:06 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a woman playing the part of an angel takes part in a dress rehearsal for a piece of rooftop theatre in Berlin to commemorate the 20th annivesary of the Wall coming down

Posted by kluciole at 11/5/2009 6:09 PM | Add Comment

Just watched the PBS broadcast of "Born Wild: The First Days of Life"... here is a video clip!

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2009 9:07 PM | Add Comment

"Which hand do you want to lose first?" The inspiring story of Mariatu Kamara, who survived Sierra Leone's war

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2009 8:50 PM | Add Comment

Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall -- how Germany has healed the scars

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2009 10:44 AM | Add Comment

Quote from Auguste Rodin

Posted by kluciole at 10/31/2009 11:19 AM | Add Comment

Genes key in compulsive urge to hoard

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2009 11:18 AM | Add Comment

Ethel Smyth – a wrecker with a cause. "Jailed for her activities in the Suffragette movement, composer Ethel Smyth had no problem putting her beliefs into action"

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2009 11:16 AM | Add Comment

Trailblazers: The early women aviators -- from the Flying Baroness to the Fiancee Of Danger

Posted by kluciole at 10/27/2009 8:20 AM | Add Comment

Prudence the runt piglet was saved from death and adopted by 6 puppies; she likes to play fetch with them

Posted by kluciole at 10/21/2009 4:46 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Kuwait grants women passports without spousal nod

Posted by kluciole at 10/21/2009 4:28 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Movie: Natasha Arthy's film "Fighter" (2007, Denmark). I really liked this film! I think the descriptions do not reveal the depth of the rich character/culture relations in this movie. Great action as well.

Posted by kluciole at 10/17/2009 5:12 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Quote from Anne Sexton

Posted by kluciole at 10/14/2009 4:08 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Green tea may curb risk of blood and lymph system cancers

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 10:33 PM | Add Comment

Sidewalks, parks, farm markets cut diabetes risk

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 1:03 AM | Add Comment
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