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By Shannon McDonald
The Fox Chase Cancer Center received a $217,906 cancer research grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act yesterday.
Researchers at the facility will use the funding to examine cancer patients’ common symptoms and determine the best medical approach to them. The goal of the study is to educate caregivers about symptom recognition, treatment and the benefits of intervention when multiple symptoms present themselves.
Reiger tombstones in the graveyard of Trinity Oxford Church near Burholme, where black and white residents were buried together in the 18th century.
Last week’s Northeast Times featured the first in a cool three-part series on the history of black communities in the Northeast for Black History Month.
There has always been a significant African-American presence in the Northeast. A trip to the Trinity Oxford Church graveyard near Burholme, where there is a cluster of early 17th-century graves marked by the first names of slaves, attests that there were blacks in Northeast Philadelphia very early in its settlement.
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By Christopher Wink
The unofficial mayor of the Northeast has something to say about Philadelphia’s financial crisis that Michael Nutter announced in November.
Al Taubenberger, the Burholme resident and former Republican mayoral challenger and Northeast Chamber of Commerce president, was asked by city hall reporters what he would do if he overcame the city’s wealth of registered Democrats and was leading Philadelphia through this dark night.
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The Philadelphia Business Journal reports that the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Burholme will cut about 3 percent of its staff – more than 70 jobs.
