QUEENSGATE, OH (FOX19) - A free presentation is being held at the Cincinnati Musuem Center on the ongoing battle with all forms of cancer.

An insights lecture; Fighting Cancer: Is the glass half-empty or half full? is being given by the CEO and President of Bexion Pharmaceuticals Dr. Ray Takigiku.

This presentation will explore the dynamic nature of cancer, and describe a new approach to treat it by attacking at least some of those evolutionary attributes.

In 2012, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 2 men will develop cancer, almost 600,000 people will die of it, and another $2 billion tax dollars will have been spent.

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OVER-THE-RHINE, OH (FOX19) - Cincinnati’s first Corealign Pilates studio is the latest new business to open its doors in the Gateway Quarter of Over-the-Rhine. Core: A Movement Studio will officially open to the public on Monday, September 17 in the Parvis Building on Vine Street.

Core: A Movement Studio joins seven other businesses in the 15,700 square feet of commercial space that make up the ground floor of Parvis Lofts, a fully-leased 32-unit apartment building on Vine Street. Those include Mannequin, The Brandery, Kathy Hamm Studio, the Gateway Quarter Sales Office, We Have Become Vikings, Pet Wants, and Reser Bicycle Outfitters. The Paint Building across from Parvis will soon house Kaze, a Japanese restaurant and whiskey bar by John Zipperstein who owns Embers in Kenwood. Only three commercial spaces totaling 3,500 square feet remain available at Parvis.

CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) - Submitted by Alison Auciello

Following Wednesday's unanimous vote by the Cincinnati City Council to ban injection wells associated with the disposal of waste from hydraulic fracturing, the citizen’s advocacy coalition Southwest Ohio No Frack Forum called on the state legislature to protect Ohio residents and their natural resources by banning all fracking-related activity throughout the state.

 Fracking is an unconventional natural gas drilling method that involves pumping millions of gallons of water, silica sand and as many as 750 chemicals into the earth to release natural gas from hard rock formations. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) expects to permit over 2,250 fracking wells by 2015, which would create billions of gallons of fracking waste. Though local geologists claim that Cincinnati is not a favorable location for fracking, the shallow layer of sandstone makes it a desirable site for waste injection.