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'How do you shoot my baby?': A first responder arrived at Robb Elementary to learn his 10-year-old daughter had been killed
Med aide Angel Garza rushed to Robb Elementary School on Tuesday and arrived as officials started escorting shell-shocked children from the classrooms.
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Red Cross Emergency Preparedness for Older Adults
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Till Debuts at 2022 New York Film Festival
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The Ceremonia Holiday Edit Is Here!
Don Victor Mooney of Queens, the first African American to row across the Atlantic Ocean recognizes Qatar’s Hamad Medical Corporation and Ministry of Public Health for World AIDS Day for their commitment to fight against HIV/AIDS and unprecedented global partnerships that has catapulted the tiny country as a center in the Middle East for medical research, care and culture.
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Texans Take Homegrown Talent To Help Bolster Needs In The 2022 NFL Draft
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Australia's government has bought the copyright to the Aboriginal flag, making it freely available for public use and ending a longstanding battle over the design.
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READ: Vice President Kamala Harris' remarks on January 6 anniversary
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke from the US Capitol on the one-year anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, where she said that on that day, "we all saw what our nation would look like if the forces who seek to dismantle our democracy are successful. The lawlessness, the violence, the chaos." Read her remarks as released below:
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Pittsburgh synagogue gunman has mental illness and epilepsy, doctor testifies at death penalty trial
The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter made several suicide attempts as a young man, was involuntarily committed multiple times and has schizophrenia and epilepsy, a neurologist who examined him testified at his death penalty trial Wednesday.
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One
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Higher rates of lung cancer in women are a mystery for researchers
More young and middle-aged women are being diagnosed with lung cancer at a higher rate than men, and scientists are struggling to understand why, new research shows. Awareness of the disease’s effects on women is lacking, experts say, and the US government spends significantly less on its research than on similar studies in men.
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Chimera Vividly Captures Conflicting Emotions of Long-Term Cancer Survivorship
Few people have survived the nightmare of a stem cell transplant gone sideways. Fewer still have had the audacity to write about the miraculous yet bewildering experience of becoming a genetic chimera. Brad Buchanan breaks this taboo and offers readers eloquent, surrealistic and profoundly moving passages about his dramatic transformation and amazing recovery. Chimera, Buchanan’s fourth book of poems, tells in lyrically oblique confessions and hallucinatory vignettes the difficult but nevertheless wonderful history and aftermath of the author’s 2016 stem cell transplant.
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RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel elected to fourth consecutive term
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was elected to a fourth consecutive term Friday after winning the support of about two-thirds of the RNC members who gathered here for their winter meeting.
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Selfie taken by Gabby Petito shows she had a facial injury on the day she was interviewed by Moab police over domestic disturbance call, lawyer says
A selfie taken by Gabby Petito weeks before her death shows she had facial injuries on the day she and her fiancé, Brian Laundrie, were stopped by police investigating a domestic disturbance call, according to her family's lawyer.
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Drone kills US soldiers in Jordan; follows American drone onto base, causes confusion
The drone that killed three US Army soldiers and wounded dozens more in Jordan on Sunday approached the US military outpost, Tower 22, around the same time an American drone was returning to the base, which led to uncertainty over whether it was hostile and caused a delay to the US response, two US officials told CNN.
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Pain after a heart attack linked with higher risk of death over next eight years, study finds
Someone who has any kind of severe pain a year after a heart attack may be more likely to die within the eight years afterward, according to a new study.
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Two research teams detail advancements in transplanting pig kidneys to humans, marking key steps on path to clinical trials
New advancements in transplanting pig kidneys to humans, detailed by two separate research teams on Wednesday, mark key steps forward in the evolving field of xenotransplantation, the use of non-human tissues or organs to treat medical conditions in humans.
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Dune: Part Two
How deep is the sand? How high is the sky? Director/writer Denis Villeneuve knows how to make a throw-down sci-fi epic. He proved that with his captivating production Dune (2021), which won six 2022 Oscars® for cinematography, production design, visual effects, sound, editing and score.
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A daily step count goal may counteract effects of sitting
Ten thousand steps per day have long been known as the magic number needed to lower risk of disease and early death. What researchers didn’t know was whether the amount could have the same effect even for people who are sedentary most of the day.
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Four children in Haiti describe harrowing stories of survival
They have the calm of people who have lived through terrible things. But they are just kids.
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Lovell's Food For Thought - Racism & Health Inequities
Do We Really Want to Address Either? My Perception is NO
Thirty years ago I wrote my first NIH on addressing breast cancer in African American Women. In that grant I included a section on the impact of racism on outcomes. The grant was not score. In fact, I was told that it really was not reviewed. Ten years later I wrote an article for "The Scientist" entitled "Racism Has An Impact On Research And Health Care Policy." Around the same time, serving on the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Integration Panel, I asked this question - how many Black women needed to die before we really did anything to really address inequities. Guess who not involved back to serve? Today, Racism is now a topic as it relates to health. Let me just say, it has been a topic for years. The question I continue to ask is whether anyone(s) in significant leadership position be held accountable. Only then will we truly see progress.
