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4 HIV babies born in Broward, PBC — first in years
In South Florida, home to some of the nation's worst AIDS rates, a trend worth celebrating came to a sad end last year when Broward and Palm Beach counties each reported two babies born HIV-positive. They were the first such cases since 2006 in Palm...
Tags: AIDS, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Palm Beach County, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Health
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DNA link found in 2005 Roanoke slaying
Court records show a recent DNA hit has linked a man to evidence left at the scene of a 2005 shooting death. A warrant filed in Roanoke Circuit Court reveals that a match was found in April for DNA evidence recovered from the Aug. 16, 2005 shooting...
Tags: Biotechnology Industry
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Over 57-year career, pediatrician says, vaccines changed everything
The Orange County RegisterSANTA ANA, Calif. If you think today's world can be a perilous place for children, imagine life in the 1950s. Seat belts in cars were not widely used, much less required. A kid wearing a bike helmet would have been mocked mercilessly. The child-resistant...Tags: Internists, Orange County Register, Disease Prevention, University of California, Los Angeles, Human papillomavirus
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'Body of War' veteran who said he was ready to die says he will live on for now
The Kansas City StarKANSAS CITY, Mo. Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war veteran who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said that he has decided to live for now. "I decided I was going to hold on as long as I can until it becomes too unbearable for me,"...Tags: Entertainment, Music, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts, Iraq
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Health care concerns
I'm not statistician enough to know how much of the story U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster's editorial ("Time to repeal Obamacare," May 16) tells, but surely we agree that the existing health care system deserved overhaul. We are a sick nation, getting sicker,...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pharmaceuticals, Bill Shuster
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North student wins Gates scholarship
The Leader-TelegramWhen the folder from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation arrived in the mail last month, Chou Lee opened it with anxious fingers. Lee, a senior at Eau Claire North High School, has been an outstanding student and so getting accepted to the college of...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Students, Science and Technology, Biotechnology Industry, Biotechnology
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Voice of the People, May. 20
Cancer research We recently heard the revelation that Angelina Jolie had undergone preventive double mastectomy in order to lessen her chance of developing breast cancer. Her DNA carries a genetic defect in the BRCA1 gene that significantly increases her...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Science and Technology, Breast Cancer, Chicago Cubs, Mastectomy
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RNA was a key ingredient in primordial soup that led to life
How did we go from a lifeless Earth with no oxygen to a planet teeming with life and that essential element? Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found one crucial clue: iron and RNA. The team managed to re-create conditions of life on...
Tags: NASA, Science and Technology, Biotechnology Industry, Biology
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Pharmacists seen as valuable members of health-care team
Tribune Media ServicesSearching for a health care career where you’ll be a trusted adviser and partner in helping improve the care of patients? Consider the field of pharmacy. Nearly three-quarters of Americans rate pharmacists as having high or very high honesty and...Tags: Science and Technology, General Practitioners, Diabetes, Biology, Chemistry
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Clearing the air about asthma
The Record, Stockton, Calif.Dr. Greg Bensch would like to see people change their thinking about asthma. Asthma is a chronic disease, but most people don't look at it that way. A chronic disease is a long-lasting health condition that can be controlled but not cured, such as...Tags: Physical Conditions, Allergies, Flu, Wheezing, Heart Disease
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SWARM
The Honolulu Star-AdvertiserIt's termite-swarming season again, and if your neighbor's tented home isn't enough of a reminder, those clouds of critters gathered around outdoor lights at night should scare you to be on the lookout for evidence of the voracious, wood-eating pests....Tags: Inorganic Chemical Industry, Marketing
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Minnesota strives to increase inspections of anhydrous storage facilities
St. Cloud Times, Minn.Anhydrous Ammonia Storage Facilities A massive explosion last month at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, that killed 15 people and injured 200 more also heightened awareness of hazardous farm chemicals and how they are stored. Ammonium nitrate, which...Tags: Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Fertilizer, Government, Emergency Incidents, Explosions
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