Boy who fled state to avoid chemo turns 14 Court ordered cancer treatment last year after family refused A Minnesota boy who once fled the state with his mother to avoid chemotherapy for cancer has reason to celebrate. Daniel Hauser of Sleepy Eye had his 14th birthday Friday, and family spokesman Dan Zwakman says he remains in remission. Daniel was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma last year and stopped chemotherapy because it made him sick. He and his mother fled the state before returning and ...

Losing breast little help after cancer Mastectomy may not improve survival for some patients For some women, having a breast removed once they're diagnosed with cancer doesn't always mean they'll live longer, a new study says. Researchers said that in women with breast cancer who also have genetic mutations that make them more susceptible to the disease, women appear to live just as long whether they choose treatment that preserves their breast or have a breast removal, or mastectomy. The study results were presented ...

Cancer question complicates 9/11 deal Linking disease to exposure to toxic dust from WTC site proves elusive NEW YORK - Of all the illnesses people fear might be caused by toxic dust from the World Trade Center, nothing scares people like cancer. Hundreds of people are suing New York City over cancer diagnoses they received after working at ground zero. A judge last week rejected a $575 million legal settlement for thousands of sick 9/11 responders in part because he thought it should ...

Student Loan Company: Data on 3.3M People Stolen A company that guarantees federal student loans says the names, addresses, Social Security numbers and dates of birth on about 3.3 million people has been stolen from its headquarters. MINNEAPOLIS - A company that guarantees federal student loans said Friday that personal data on about 3.3 million people nationwide has been stolen from its headquarters in Minnesota. Educational Credit Management Corp. said the data included names, addresses, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of ...

Los Angeles school year shortened in teachers deal The Los Angeles teachers union says it has reached a deal with the school district that would shorten the school year by at least five days, as officials cope with a $640 million budget deficit. United Teachers Los Angeles spokeswoman Marla Eby says under the agreement reached Saturday, teachers will take five unpaid furlough days this year and seven next year, saving the nation's largest school district $180 million. The deal would allow schools to ...

Time to sell Health Care Lawmakers Set to Sell Their Version of Health Care Law to Constituents With lawmakers ending the yearlong health care fight in Congress this week by sending legislation to President Obama to sign into law, they now face a new front on the battle back home in their districts: justifing their "yea" or "nay" vote to the bosses - their constituents. Kathleen Gudaitis, of Johnston, R.I., protests against the health care reform bill recently signed into law by President ...

CBS lets the cat out of the bag on HTML5 video iPad tests The iPad launch is a little more than a week out and unsurprisingly, Flash support is still nowhere to be seen. Content providers understand that Apple means business with this no Flash stuff, too. While no one else is openly talking about alternate plans just yet, it looks like CBS.com has begun testing HTML5 video playback, no doubt thanks to the iPad. As first noted by The Other Mac ...

Google reportedly shares mobile ad revenue with key partners Google's Android mobile operating system is gaining considerable traction in the smartphone market. According to a report from mocoNews, the secret behind Android's success is a series of revenue-sharing agreements that Google has signed with carriers and even some handset manufacturers. The specific details are somewhat hazy, but the report cites unnamed sources who say that Google is giving its partners a cut of the advertising revenue generated by its mobile users. These ...

A Microsoft engineer last week said that to properly handle multicore processors, future operating systems should discard the multitasking systems of today, in favor of dedicating cores to specific tasks. This seems more than a little surprising. The lack of native code development on Windows Phone 7 Series was always likely to discourage developers with large, preexisting codebases. Mozilla has confirmed that it is suspending development of its version of Firefox for Windows Mobile due to the inability to migrate to ...

Controlling Mars rovers: there's an app for that What if, instead of pocket-dialing, you could pocket-send-a-Mars-rover-over-a-cliff? That was the goal of two programmers at EclipseCon 2010 (via Slashdot). A competition at the conference asked developers to either create an e4-Rover client or use one to move a demo robot over a model Mars landscape. Two participants, Peter Friese and Heiko Behrens, built the robot-controlling client into an iPhone application. Entrants could win the rover challenge at EclipseCon in one of two ways. ...