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UPDATE: 17-year-old from Zambia gets free surgery
ReporterAn update now on a story we first brought to you a couple of weeks ago. A 17-year-old boy from the African country of Zambia is getting life saving surgery Friday in one of our hometowns. Orphan Medical Network International and another organization...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Africa, Health, Lymphatic filariasis, Zambia
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OUR HEALTH: Diabetes Mellitus
Diabetes Mellitus. The data is startling, and it’s getting worse.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, diabetes affects more than 25 million people in the U.S., or 8.3 percent of the population. It’s the seventh leading cause of...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Insulin, National Institutes of Health, Salem (Salem, Virginia), Medical Research
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Roanoke facility helping make high tech discoveries for amputees
reporterSean O'Connor is like a lot of 8th graders - he loves video games. But, unlike a lot of 14-year-olds, he's learned how to play these games one handed. Sean was born without his right hand and forearm. Throughout the year he tried prosthetics - but...Tags: Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Music, Entertainment
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Live updates: Krystle M. Campbell mourned as 2nd Boston bombing victim
Friends of 29-year-old Krystle M. Campbell mourned her Tuesday as the second victim of the Boston Marathon bombings. On Facebook, employees of the Summer Shack restaurant in Hingham, Mass., where she was general manager said they were devastated “by...Tags: Deval Patrick, Government, MSNBC (tv network), Hospitals and Clinics, Terrorism
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Boston bombs said to be made from pressure cookers
BOSTON (AP) — The bombs that ripped through the Boston Marathon crowd appear to have been fashioned out of ordinary kitchen pressure cookers, packed with nails and other fiendishly lethal shrapnel, and hidden in duffel bags left on the ground,...
Tags: Terrorism, Hospitals and Clinics, Times Square, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Janet Napolitano
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Blasts lead to deaths, injury after Boston Marathon
The Baltimore SunBOSTON -- At least three people are dead and 100 injured after two bomb blasts shook the site of the Boston Marathon finish line Monday afternoon, with a third, possibly related incident an hour and a half later, reported at Boston's John F. Kennedy...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Deval Patrick, Road Running, Sports, Arts and Culture
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On screens, familiar images of terror flash
NEW YORK (AP) — The Boston Marathon explosions and their aftermath were captured in chilling images that ran as relentless tape loops of terror online and on TV networks Monday, a sickeningly familiar routine in an age of violence designed for...
Tags: Paula Abdul, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Television, George Stephanopoulos, Scott Pelley
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Still no suspect in hit-and-run that led to cyclist's amputation
California Highway Patrol officials say they are nowhere closer to finding a motorist who ran down and badly injured a bicyclist near Griffith Park than they were when the hit-and-run occurred nearly two months ago. On Feb. 17, Damian Kevitt, 36, an avid...Tags: Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Broken Arm
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High school boys lacrosse: Jessup attacking adversity
MISHAWAKA -- How much courage and maturity does it take for a 14-year-old to decide his quality of life would be better if his right leg were amputated? What high school freshman can weigh the possibilities and reach that conclusion? Three years...
Tags: Lacrosse, Sports, Snowboarding
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Afghan bomb cost Marine his legs, but not his spirit
SAN DIEGO — Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Zambon was in Afghanistan, on his fourth combat deployment as an explosive ordnance disposal technician, when he took a step and heard the ominous click. "I remember flying through the air and coming down on my...
Tags: Czech Republic, Iraq, Armed Forces, Explosions, Climbing
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The president's feeble gesture
"President Obama plans to give up 5 percent of his salary this year to draw attention to the financial sacrifice of more than 1 million federal employees who will be furloughed." -- The Washington Post, April 4 "Here's the plan. We get the warhead and...
Tags: Tammy Duckworth, Washington, DC, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Mitt Romney
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Her strength keeps family going
It seemed like a regular day. Kaitlyn Dobrow, 18, woke up in time for her eight-hour shift as a receptionist at the Days Inn & Suites of Huntington Beach. She worked from 3 to 11 p.m. until her best friend, Kristen Kidd, gave her a ride to the gym,...
Tags: Personal Service, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals, University of California, Irvine, Meningitis
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