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Celebrating the red, white and blush

A Brennan Vineyard 4-Pak:  Great Wines and a Great Flower Vase!


Celebrating the red, white and blush - Brownwood Bulletin - Brownwood's News and Sports Leader: Local Area: vineyard, wine, brennan vineyards, austin st. comanche, brennan vineyards viognier: COMANCHE — It all started with the old stone farm Patrick and Trellise Brennan purchased in 1997 as a weekend getaway.

4.0 Cellars to be picnic mecca of the Texas wine trail, plus perfect picnic pairings 

http://austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/05-10-12-17-30-welcome-four-point-cellars-a-new-picnic-mecca-on-the-texas-wine-trail/ 

One of our "No fan of Obama" customers even defaced our Obama Soap Poster in the Deli Bathroom during the nasty debate on healthcare.  Some people!

Obama Soap - 100% All Natural - The Original Obama Bar

"A portion of the proceeds from every sale goes to the Yellow Ribbon Fund, supporting injured war veterans at Walter Reed."

http://www.obamasoap.com/ 

Texas Cancer Center to Study New Blood Test

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor's office.

Boston scientists who invented the test and health care giant Johnson & Johnson announced Monday that they are joining forces to bring it to market. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and three other big cancer centers also will start studies using the experimental test this year.

Stray cancer cells in the blood mean that a tumor has spread or is likely to, many doctors believe. A test that can capture such cells has the potential to transform care for many types of cancer, especially breast, prostate, colon and lung.

Initially, doctors want to use the test to try to predict what treatments would be best for each patient's tumor and find out quickly if they are working.

"This is like a liquid biopsy" that avoids painful tissue sampling and may give a better way to monitor patients than periodic imaging scans, said Dr. Daniel Haber, chief of Massachusetts General Hospital's cancer center and one of the test's inventors.

Ultimately, the test may offer a way to screen for cancer besides the mammograms, colonoscopies and other less-than-ideal methods used now.

"There's a lot of potential here, and that's why there's a lot of excitement," said Dr. Mark Kris, lung cancer chief at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He had no role in developing the test, but Sloan-Kettering is one of the sites that will study it this year.

"Early detection of the cancer will improve the chances to cure the cancer and also improve the prognosis of the cancer," said Dr. Naveena Allada of Texas Oncology and Baylor Irving.

Many people have their cancers diagnosed through needle biopsies. These often do not provide enough of a sample to determine what genes or pathways control a tumor's growth. Or the sample may no longer be available by the time the patient gets sent to a specialist to decide what treatment to prescribe.

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/Texas-Cancer-Center-to-Study-New-Blood-Test-112830969.html

Hot Dog Mike Juiliano creates The World's Most Expensive Hot Dog for charity

Hot Dog Mike Juiliano creates The World's Most Expensive Hot Dog for charity: Hot Dog Mike sold The World's Most Expensive Hot Dog today, to benefit the homeless advocacy nonprofit The One, Inc.

“Brown County Club Sandwich,”
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