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AP: La. Justice Quits After Interracial Wed Flap
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Government, Justice of the Peace, racism, biased, crime, abuse, rights, freedoms )

Dee
- 16 days ago - nytimes.com
BATON ROUGE, La.- A Louisiana justice of the peace who refused to marry a couple because the bride was white and groom was black resigned Tuesday. Good Riddance...
New Vaccine Offers Hope in Africa's Malaria Battle
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, malaria vaccine, medicine, humans, disease, death, prevention, protection, research, treatment )

Dee
- 16 days ago - abcnews.go.com
A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube in her baby's head. Blood streamed into the anemic 4-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year.
U.S. Delegation In Myanmar For Rare Talks With Junta
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, U.S., Obama, delegation, Hope, Burmese government, Myanmar's military )

Dee
- 16 days ago - nytimes.com
YANGON (Reuters) - A delegation of senior U.S. officials, pursuing a new dialogue, met with Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday in the highest-level talks with the reclusive junta in 14 years.
Researcher Behind the Drug Gleevec
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, myeloid leukemia, study, medicine, humans, health, prevention, disease )

Dee
- 16 days ago - nytimes.com
Dr. Brian J. Druker, 54, an oncologist at Oregon Health and Sciences University and a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator, is one of three winners this year of the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award
Giving Sight By Therapy With Genes
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, study, humans, health, retinal diseasetreatment, prevention )

Dee
- 17 days ago - nytimes.com
By the time Corey Haas was 7, the retinal disease he was born with had already stolen much of his vision. "He always clung to me or my wife," said Corey's father, Ethan Haas.
As Donors Focus on AIDS, Child Illnesses Languish
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, AIDS, children, disease, illness, death, prevention, protection, treatment )

Dee
- 16 days ago - nytimes.com
JOHANNESBURG- Diarrhea kills 1.5 million young children a year in developing countries - more than AIDS, malaria and measles combined -- but only 4 in 10 of those who need the oral rehydration solution that can prevent death for pennies get it.
Woman Pleads Guilty to Charges in Smart Kidnapping
Society & Culture  (tags: society, crime, children, abuse, kidnap, rape, sadness, violence )

Dee
- 3 days ago - news.yahoo.com
SALT LAKE CITY - A woman charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart pleaded guilty Tuesday as part of a deal with federal prosecutors and asked Smart to forgive her for all the pain she had caused.
A Mixed Year for Gorilla Infants
Animals  (tags: animals, Gorillas, Infants, Dian Fossey, death, sadness, wildanimals, AnimalWelfare )

Dee
- 3 days ago - gorillafund.org
Since January of this year, 10 infant gorillas have been born into the mountain gorilla groups that we monitor from the Karisoke Research Center. Infant gorillas are very vulnerable during their earliest days, however...
New Mammogram Advice Raises Questions, Concerns
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, cancer, breast cancer, mammograms, protection, prevention, disease, illness, death, safety, study, treatment, warning )

Dee
- 3 days ago - news.yahoo.com
NEW YORK - For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences. Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure out if they should even be getting one at all.
Vaccines on Horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, Herpes
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, vaccines, disease, illness, humans, medicine, prevention, protection, research, safety )

Dee
- 3 days ago - news.yahoo.com
MARIETTA, Pa. - Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.
 
 
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