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Pharmaceutical company Abbott just announced this week that they have signed an exclusive licensing agreement with the Institut Curie for a biomarker for bladder cancer!. Genetic mutations in FGFR3 can be used for early detection, disease monitoring, & predicting patient outcomes in both urine & tissue-based testing. FGFR3 ...

One word says it all! Amazing! He's the AMAZING Kreskin, & Kreskin's still kickin'. Today's (Monday) is his 80th birthday & there's a star-studded birthday party for Kresin tonight in New York City. It gets even better...this afternoon at 4:35, the Amazing Kreskin will be my special guest on the Puffman Show, & I'm looking forward to chewing the fat with this living legend. You don't .

Believe it or not(!), I've talked Edward Meyer from Ripley's Believe It or Not into returning to the Puffman Show this Monday afternoon at 4:30. Edward's all fired up about the Ripley biography on PBS American Experience coming up this Tuesday, January 6th on PBS...

It's a hilarious journey from a stifling rut to a life without boundaries...It's "Radical Sabbatical", & it's the new book that's up for grabs tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 7:30 on Puffman SPORTS Trivia. Glen Tibaldeo & Laura Berger have come up with a real laugh riot & Doua Moua, the actor who appeared in Gran Torino, blasts, "It's a couple's Eat Pray Love meets The Ha

I've come across THE book of all books for railroad buffs & my last name, of course, rhymes with "buff." For all of the steam & diesel locomotives you can't see in person, or the ones you want to remember in all of their larger-than-life glory, this read is the ultimate! It's "...

The ol' Puffman's memory doesn't seem to be what it was once...I simply FORGOT to call the Gabby Cabby this week & ask him to recount & share his infamous Christmas story of when years back he was driving in the dead & cold of night in rural backwoods eastern Pennsylvania on Christmas Eve & there were NO places to stop & eat in order that the Gab Man's family could enjoy a warm

WAS it a hoax or can the dead truly speak AND kill? The answer is in this potboiler of a new novel that I'll be giving away this afternoon (Monday) at 4:35 on Puffman Musical Trivia. The book is Alan Finn's "Things Half In Shadow", a masterful blend of history, romance, & a classic ghost story that pulls you in from the 1st line & keeps you riveted to the page. Acclai... Read Mor

Tomorrow, Saturday, is the DEADLINE to bring your Santa letters to the Smile Shop here in Shelby so that Santa's fine helpers can get your letters mailed/forwarded up the North Pole. Christmas Eve will be here next Wednesday, & to my way of thinking, it no doubt takes 3 to 4 days for a letter to reach the Pole. Do...

I've put together a Puffman Sports Trivia question for tomorrow (Saturday) morning pertaining one of the world's tallest pyramids, & the 1st caller in with the correct answer to my sports trivia question WINS the FRIGHTENING book, "Biowarfare And Terrorism" by Francis A. Bo...

When I first came across Dr. Mark Pitstick's book (with a forward by Dr. Bernie Siegel), I assumed that it was a book about shoes until I figured out that the spelling would have to read "Sole" as opposed to "Soul." That said, the book. "Soul Proof; Compelling Evidence You Are an Infinite Spiritual/Energetic Being" is "up for grabs" this afternoon (Monday) o

That's what it is...a dose of shock & "awwww" in Ripley Publishing's new book "Reality Shock! that is NOW on sale. I'll be giving the book away this afternoon (Tuesday) on the Puffman Show, & if you're the 1st caller in during the 4 o'clock hour, you WIN the book. I'm al...

I didn't have a winner Saturday morning on Puffman Sports Trivia (the question was too tough), so Saturday's prize is up for grabs this afternoon at 4:35 on Puffman Musical Trivia. The book I'm giving away is: All American; Two Young Men, The 2001 Army-Navy Game And The War They Fought In Iraq" by New York Times Bestselling Author Steve Eubanks...