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It Was Like the Vigor Had Suddenly Been Sucked Out of His Body. What Was It?

And so, early that Friday, the woman drove her husband to Danbury Hospital, the emergency room closest to the couple’s small Connecticut town. He walked in on his own. It was the last time he would walk without help for weeks. Many Pink Pills He was admitted to the hospital. Neurology was consulted and did

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Dr. Anthony Epstein, Pathologist Who Discovered Epstein-Barr Virus, Dies at 102

In March of 1961, Dr. Anthony Epstein, a pathologist at Middlesex Hospital in London, almost skipped a visiting physician’s afternoon lecture about children with exceptionally large facial tumors in Uganda. The physician, Dr. Denis Burkitt, a native of Ireland who called himself a bush surgeon, showed slides of bulbous tumors that emerged along the jawline

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FDA says to throw away these 6 cinnamon products because they contain high levels of lead

Consumers should not purchase half a dozen ground cinnamon products sold by retailers including Family Dollar and Dollar Tree because they contain elevated levels of lead, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday in an public health alert. The warning, which also urged folks to check their spice racks and throw out any of

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