Health
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Pilgrims yearn to visit isolated peninsula where Catholic saints cared for Hawaii’s leprosy patients
KALAUPAPA, Hawaii (AP) — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula,…
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Elton John addresses Britain’s Parliament, urging lawmakers to do more to fight HIV/AIDS
LONDON (AP) — Elton John has urged British lawmakers to do more to fight HIV and AIDS, saying the U.K.…
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France to ban smoking on beaches as it seeks to avoid 75,000 tobacco-related deaths per year
by: AP Posted: Nov 28, 2023 / 04:42 AM MST Updated: Nov 28, 2023 / 04:42 AM MST PARIS (AP)…
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China says a surge in respiratory illnesses is caused by flu and other known pathogens
BEIJING (AP) — A surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization…
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South Africa, Colombia and others are fighting drugmakers over access to TB and HIV drugs
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa, Colombia and other countries that lost out in the global race for…
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Poland’s new parliament debates reversing a ban on government funding for in vitro fertilization
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s new parliament began debating the reinstatement of government funding for in vitro fertilization as its…
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Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ‘bamboozled’ by science, COVID-19 inquiry told
LONDON (AP) — Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, struggled to come to grips with much of the science…
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4-year-old girl needs bone marrow transplant
People urged to join bone marrow donor registry AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) — A Northglenn family is asking folks to register…
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The world’s first gene therapy for sickle cell and thalassemia has been approved
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a…
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UK experts recommend chickenpox shot for kids for the first time, decades after other countries
LONDON (AP) — An expert scientific committee advising the British government recommended for the first time Tuesday that children should…
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