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Young South African Woman's AIDS Diary Touched Millions of Radio Listeners
Society & Culture  (tags: South Africa, Society, health, disease, illness, AIDS/HIV, stigma, death )

Dee
- 162 days ago - online.wsj.com
Rising from a shack in a South African shantytown, Thembi Ngubane mined a personal tragedy to become an international advocate for people with HIV and AIDS.
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Sign Petition: Stop Rising Teen Birth Rates and STD Infections
Society & Culture  (tags: society, teens, girls, sex education, naral, pregnancy, stds, disease, prevention, health, culture, americans, family, abstinence, contraception, birth control, government )

Tom
- 243 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
We're facing a teen-health crisis. One in four American girls has a sexually transmitted disease and the teen birth rate is up in 26 states. The Responsible Education About Life (REAL) Act would establish the first-ever federal sex education program.
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Swayze, Who Has Pancreatic Cancer, Checked Himself Into Hospital for Pneumonia
Society & Culture  (tags: culture, celebrity, health, media, sadness, illness, healthcare, disease, treatment )

Suzybell
- 316 days ago - webmd.com
Actor Patrick Swayze, who has stage IV pancreatic cancer, has checked himself into a hospital for observation because he has pneumonia.Swayze, 56, was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer, which had already spread to his liver, in March 2008. Swayze
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USA For Africa - We Are The World
Society & Culture  (tags: world, music, sharing, love, help, children, Lionel Richie, Kenny Rogers, Harry Belafonte, United States, Live aid, society, activists, family, freedoms, goodnews, famine, disease )

Gregory
- 461 days ago - br.youtube.com
USA for Africa (United Support of Artists for Africa), was the name under which forty-five predominantly U.S. artists, led by Harry Belafonte, Kenny Rogers, Michael Jackson, and Lionel Richie, recorded the hit single "We Are the World" in 1985.
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Disease and History
Society & Culture  (tags: disease, history, society, plagues, contagion, health, lifestyle )

RC
- 481 days ago - health.usnews.com
Informative piece on how the great plagues of humankind have affected - and continue to affect - our social, political, economic and cultural history. A great read!
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Peaceable Kingdom: Journey Home Trailer WATCH VIDEO   video
Society & Culture  (tags: environment, ethics, death, diet, disease, health, interesting, news, nutrition, prevention, protection, safety, society, treatment, warning, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, animals, cruelty, death, rescued, slaughter, killing, society, s )

Echo
- 659 days ago - youtube.com
Perfect time to watch this, sad but a very "feel good" featurettte too! Documentary due out some time in 2008, by Tribe of Heart, same who made The Witness. CHECK IT OUT and DONT MISS IT!
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Pediatricians Convinces ABC to Cancel Show About Mercury and Autism
Society & Culture  (tags: environment, protection, research, activists, children, culture, ethics, law, media, politics, death, disease, drugs, health, healthcare, medicine, risks, prevention, treatment, warning, study, modified, science, scientists, research )

Susan
- 664 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
On Mon ABC will release the letter from the group about the premiere of a new legal drama series , Eli Stone, because it features a family attorney who successfully argues in court that mercury-containing flu vaccine caused autism in one child .
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Internet 'Promoting Teen Smoking'
Society & Culture  (tags: internet, health, disease, teens, youth, tobacco )

Brian
- 787 days ago - theaustralian.news.com.au
POPULAR internet sites including YouTube, Facebook and MySpace are being used to promote smoking to teenagers, a health expert at the University of Sydney says. About 7% of schoolchildren aged 12 to 15 smoked, rising to about 18 percent of 17-year-olds.
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Forgetting Living With AIDS for Week at Camp
Society & Culture  (tags: children, AIDS, camp, victims, health, illness, disease, death, culture, entertainment, family, freedoms, humans, GoodNews, interesting )

Barb
- 811 days ago - newsday.com
For one week, they are allowed to escape from their broken homes or inner-city squalor to spend time singing and dancing under the stars, fishing and boating in a bucolic setting untainted by graffiti or gangs. For one week, they are all happy campers....
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Britain Moves to Stop New Foot and Mouth Disease Havoc
Society & Culture  (tags: Animal welfare, disease, heath, cattle, contamination, death, humans, illness, safety, world, animal, animalsuffering, health, animals )


- 840 days ago - news.yahoo.com
LONDON (AFP) - Britain moved swiftly Saturday to prevent the spread of foot and mouth disease after the first case since 2001 appeared on a farm in southern England, prompting fears of mass slaughter and devastation to farming and tourism.
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U.S. Polygamist Community Faces Rare Genetic Disorder
Society & Culture  (tags: Arizona, polygamy, Mormon sect, disease, inbreeding, retardation )

Rooibos
- 892 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Arizona (Reuters) - In a dusty neighborhood under sheer sandstone cliffs studded with juniper on the Arizona-Utah border, a rare genetic disorder is spreading through polygamous families on a wave of inbreeding.
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