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City Lead on Child Eye Care
Source: Liverpool Echo
DOCTORS at Liverpool's Alder Hey joined the fight against childhood blindness. As research shows that one child goes blind every minute somewhere in the world, eye specialists have offered to share their expertise. They have teamed up with the Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) to launch…
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Americans of All Ages Are Ready for Citizen Service: Are Politicians Ready to Lead Them?
Source: Gara LaMarche
This morning Senators John McCain and Barack Obama suspended their intense competition for the Presidency to visit Ground Zero in lower Manhattan, in tribute to those who lost their lives on a brilliantly sunny New York morning seven years ago today. And tonight they will…
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UCT drops HIV vaccine project
Source: Cape Times
The department of science and technology, which is reviewing its funding of HIV vaccine research at the University of Cape Town, says it has to consider its "limited budget". "There are a number of issues that need to be considered," department spokesperson Nhlanhla Nyide said.…
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Beyond the classroom
Source: Catalyst Chicago
Original Source by Phuong Ly Middle-grade students at Reavis Elementary in Kenwood are learning Brazilian martial arts. Perspectives Charter Middle School at Calumet in Auburn Gresham wants to require students to learn to swim. Ames Middle School in Logan Square will have a garden and…
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Older and still toiling
Source: The Boston Herald
by TENLEY WOODMAN Gone are the golden days of retirement spent playing golf or spoiling the grandchildren. A sluggish economy and higher costs for food, utilities and health care has Americans 65 years and older saturating in the work force in growing numbers to make…
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Suicide on the Brink of Release; Families, Attorneys Push to Hold Guantanamo Officials Liable
Source: The Washington Post
by Josh White When Mani al-Utaybi fixed a makeshift noose around his neck and hanged himself in a Guantanamo Bay cell in June 2006, the Saudi Arabian detainee had been close to being transferred to his homeland and freed, his attorney and military officials said.…
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Medicines bill clause slammed
Source: The Star (South Africa)
by Slindile Khanyile Durban Anyone in South Africa can oppose the registration of new medicines if they feel it would not be in the public interest or the country's economic interest, or vulnerable groups would not have access to the drugs. This is a consequence…
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Hundreds of Workers Held in Immigration Raid
Source: The New York Times
by ADAM NOSSITER LAUREL, Miss. - In another large-scale workplace immigration crackdown, federal officials raided a factory here on Monday, detaining at least 350 workers they said were in the country illegally. Numerous agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement descended on a factory belonging to…
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Vietnam to See Private and Foreign-Invested Hospitals Mushrooming
Source: Thai Press Reports
According to the Ministry of Health, number of private clinics and foreign-invested hospitals will sharply soar in the near future when a series of investment incentives are put into reality. First of all, many barriers in private medical activities in Vietnam will be removed when…
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Longer lives don't mean more disability: study
Source: Reuters
by Amy Norton More and more people are living into their 90s and beyond, but that may not mean a large cost to society in terms of medical care, a new study suggests. In a study that followed a group of Danish adults born in…
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