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Women’s Caucus: “Fight Trump on Abortion, Healthcare”

California’s women lawmakers are fighting against President-elect Donald Trump’s statements that he’d support overturning abortion rights. “President-elect Trump’s statements and policies threaten to restrict our freedoms, cut off our healthcare, affect our economy and the pocketbooks of working families, and drag us back to an era of back alley abortions,” said state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson […]

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Years Later, Vietnam Vets Suffer from Rare Cancer

DANVILLE, Calif. — Mike Baughman considered himself one of the lucky ones, returning from Vietnam without any major injuries or psychological scars. But after falling ill nearly a half-century later, he found out he did not escape the war after all. The 64-year-old is among hundreds of veterans who have been diagnosed with a rare […]

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60 Minutes to Trump: What Will You Do with Obamacare?

Today I watched CBS’ Leslie Stahl interview President-elect Donald Trump on the 60 Minutes YouTube live stream that had a viewer chat window on the side. While I tried to ignore everyone cursing at each other and sending racist epithets, sexist and sexual comments, and swastikas to each other, here’s what Trump said on his […]

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Study: Prescribe Anti-Overdose Drug With Opioids

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Prescribing an anti-overdose drug at the same time as opioid painkillers can help prevent overdose deaths, according to researchers at the University of New Mexico. Researchers studied 164 patients at the UNM Pain Center for a year and published their findings in the journal Substance Abuse in April, The Albuquerque Journal eported. […]

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Judge Offers Mentally Ill a Lifeline

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Before he entered mental health court, Kevin had worked out what he considered to be an unspoken agreement with the criminal justice system. In exchange for using illegal drugs to escape his demons, Kevin — who did not want to use his real name — would spend part of the year behind […]

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Blacks Were Encouraged to Buy Tainted Homes

TAMPA, Fla. — Sulfurous fumes seep from the walls of Valentine Hendrix’s home, slowly attacking her appliances and light fixtures, her lungs and sinuses. It’s been that way for almost nine years. In 2008, Hendrix’s family was one of 12 poor black families encouraged by the Tampa Housing Authority to become first-time home buyers in […]

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Trial Focuses on Deadly Police Response

NEW YORK — When Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.’s medical alert pendant accidentally went off five years ago, the 68-year-old told police who showed up that he was fine, barred them from entering his apartment and repeatedly asked them to go away. They didn’t. That set off a tense, 90-minute standoff that ended with the mentally ill, […]

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LSU: No Medical Marijuana Before 2018

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana State University’s planned medical marijuana growing operation doesn’t expect patients seeking the drug to have access until the summer of 2018, at the earliest. Bill Richardson, LSU’s vice president for agriculture, led an AgCenter forum Friday to update the public, including potential contractors and business partners, about plans to start […]

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Trapped— How to Prevent Deaths in Walk-In Freezers

ATLANTA —Trapped in a walk-in hotel freezer with subzero temperatures, Carolyn Robinson Mangham knocked so desperately on the door that the skin on her knuckles had worn away, her husband said in a lawsuit. When the door finally opened 13 hours later, the coroner said, the 61-year-old kitchen worker was lying on the metal floor, […]

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Kansas Mental Health Courts Improved Lives, Advocates Say

WICHITA, Kan. — Municipal Judge Bryce Abbott slid into a high-backed leather chair behind a stack of bloated manila files documenting the dilemma of adults seeking refuge in Kansas’ groundbreaking mental health court. He shoved enough progress-report files aside to create a line of sight to defendants and family members, social workers, counselors and the […]

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Feds Look Into Claim of Secret VA Wait Lists

DENVER — Government investigators said they are looking into allegations that Department of Veterans Affairs employees in Colorado kept unofficial lists of veterans waiting for health care that could conceal how long it takes to get an appointment, possibly broadening a nationwide scandal. The VA’s internal watchdog announced an audit in a letter October 19 […]

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Pitt Leads $90M Effort to Improve Trauma Care

PITTSBURGH —The University of Pittsburgh is set to lead a nationwide effort to improve treatment of trauma injuries that will be funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that the university’s Schools of the Health Sciences will lead the $90 million effort under a defense contract. The first step will be […]

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