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One dead, three hurt in North Carolina hospital fire
Authorities say one patient has been killed and three employees injured in a fire at a long-term care unit at a North Carolina hospital. Firefighters received a report of an explosion at the care facility in Durham Regional Hospital about 2:15 a.m....
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics
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UPDATED: Arrest made in Lynchburg TGI Friday's stabbing
WDBJ7 Associate ProducerUPDATED Friday 9:25pm Lynchburg police say they've made an arrest in connection with last weekend's stabbing outside the TGI Friday's on Timberlake Road. Officers say they arrested 25-year-old William McCauley of Durham, North Carolina, on Friday....Tags: Health, Police Arrests, Injuries and Wounds, Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia)
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Updated: Driver's name released in deadly tractor-trailer accident in Danville
Updated 3:30 p.m. The accident has been cleared. All lanes of traffic are back open.
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Updated 10 a.m. Virginia State Police have identified the driver who was killed Thursday morning on the Danville...Tags: Traffic, Disasters and Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Roanoke Police offers suspected drug dealers a second chance
Anchor/ReporterThere is a poem by Robert Frost which talks of a wood and a road, of one choice and the difference it makes. Tuesday night it was inside the Hurt Park Elementary gymnasium where four choices were decided. A year from now, maybe sooner, we will know what...Tags: Prisons, Robert Frost, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia)
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Virginia ready for the ACC Tournament
Sports ReporterThe UVA baseball team was number in the national polls for a large part of the regular season. Virginia lost three straight to UNC at the end of the season, which knocked them out of the top spot in the rankings. But the Wahoos had already done enough...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Atlantic Coast Conference, Virginia Cavaliers, Men's College Baseball, College Baseball
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Certain chronic pain may raise suicide risk
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Back pain, migraine and other types of chronic pain without a known physical cause - and therefore little prospect for relief - were associated with an increased risk of suicide in a new study of U.S. veterans. But the...Tags: Veterans Affairs, Science and Technology, Migraine, Pain, Medical Specialization
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Frances M. Finney, educator
Frances M. Finney, who overcame poverty, earned a college degree and became a city school teacher, died April 19 from heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Guilford resident was 82. Frances Mae Hopkins was born in Baltimore and was...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, High Schools, Johns Hopkins University, The Women (movie, 2008), Justice and Rights
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Online tool helps control blood pressure long term
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study, people with high blood pressure who could communicate with their pharmacists online had better blood pressure control a year after that service ended. Previously researchers had found that patients randomly...Tags: Internists, Health and Medical Professionals, High Blood Pressure, Science and Technology, Medical Specialization
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New cancer tools allow patients to reconsider chemo
ReutersBy Deena Beasley LOS ANGELES, May 15 (Reuters) - After decades of using one-size-fits-all therapies to combat cancer, doctors are using new tools to help decide when their patients can skip chemotherapy or other harsh treatments. An approach to oncology...Tags: Chemotherapy, Skin Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Lung Cancer
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Misdiagnosis: More Common Than Drug Errors or Wrong-Site Surgery
The Hartford CourantUntil it happened to him, Itzhak Brook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University School of Medicine, didn't think much about the problem of misdiagnosis. That was before doctors at a Maryland hospital repeatedly told Brook his...Tags: IBM, MRI (imaging), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Diseases and Illnesses, Georgetown University
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RPT-INTERVIEW-Cree says innovation answer to rising competition
ReutersBy Alastair Sharp TORONTO, May 15 (Reuters) - LED lighting manufacturer Cree Inc, which aims to make traditional lighting obsolete, promises further innovation and a better product as it tempts customers with a low-power light bulb priced around $10....Tags: New Products, Samsung Group, Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Home Improvement
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Video: Clever water stop sign prevents tunnel crashes in Australia
Autoblog.comFiled under: Videos, Australia Faced with truck drivers not heeding warnings when their tractor trailers were too tall to enter the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, officials turned to a company called Laservision to put an end to these costly crashes that were not...
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