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US Patient Sick With Bird Flu Virus That Has "Pandemic Potential": Report
A resident of Washington state has been admitted to the hospital with an H5N5 bird flu infection, according to state health authorities. The strain detected in this patient has not previously been identified in humans.
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Australian Cricketer Broke Thumb. Doctors Replaced It With Her Big Toe
After Britney Thomas, a 17-year-old Australian cricket player, fractured her thumb during a game, doctors in April 2018 reassured her that a simple surgery and a short recovery in a hard plaster cast would soon have her back on the pitch. So Thomas expected a routine procedure at Latrobe Regional Hospital, a medical center about two hours from Melb...
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He Died After He Was Taken Off Life Support. Then Walked Through The Door
The hospital staff was insistent, but Brenda Bennett-Johnson could not be sure. It was May 13 and Bennett-Johnson and her sister Rosie Brooks were visiting the intensive care unit at Chicago's Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, watching a man struggle for his life. Authorities said they were looking at their brother.
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IM Pei, The Architect Behind Louvre Pyramid, Dies At 102
I.M. Pei, an American modernist architect regarded as one of the world's leading designers of civic centers and cultural institutions, including the National Gallery of Art's East Building, the glass pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, died May 16 at a hospital in Manhattan. He ...
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49 Killed In New Zealand Mosque Shootings, Gunman Livestreamed Attack
Forty-nine people are dead and scores more are seriously injured after a heavily armed gunman clad in military-style gear opened fire during prayers at a mosque in the center of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday. A second mosque was also targeted in what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called a well-planned "terrorist attack" making for "one of Ne...
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Daycare Said Toddler Fell, But Video Shows Something Much Worse
The mother of a 3-year-old girl went to Brighter Day Care in early February after being told her daughter had been hurt in a fall. She arrived at the St. Louis County day-care center to find her child "covered in blood," with a gash on her head that eventually required seven sutures, according to a lawyer for the family. The child was taken to the ...
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A Soldier Needed An Ear Transplant. Doctors 'Grew' A New One In Her Arm
Two years ago, Army Pvt. Shamika Burrage almost died when she was ejected from her car during a crash in Texas. Afterward, when she woke up in the hospital, she wasn't whole. Her entire left ear was gone.
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Their College-Bound Daughter Was Killed By A Stray Bullet. Then Their Act Of Kindness Touched Thousands.
Chris French headed into the intensive-care unit at Washington Hospital Center last August to visit his mother, who had just had surgery. He was wearing a visor that said FAMU.
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While Undergoing Brain Surgery, A Flute Player Performs
The delicate notes of a flute filled the air of an operating room at a Houston hospital last Tuesday. While playing music during a surgery isn't unusual, this song wasn't being piped through a speaker system.
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Woman Donated Her Embryos After A Fertility Clinic Malfunction. The Response Astonished Her.
The news hit Niki Schaefer hard. About 2,000 frozen embryos and eggs may have been destroyed by a lab malfunction at the University Hospitals Fertility Center in Cleveland.
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US Patient Sick With Bird Flu Virus That Has "Pandemic Potential": Report
A resident of Washington state has been admitted to the hospital with an H5N5 bird flu infection, according to state health authorities. The strain detected in this patient has not previously been identified in humans.
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Australian Cricketer Broke Thumb. Doctors Replaced It With Her Big Toe
After Britney Thomas, a 17-year-old Australian cricket player, fractured her thumb during a game, doctors in April 2018 reassured her that a simple surgery and a short recovery in a hard plaster cast would soon have her back on the pitch. So Thomas expected a routine procedure at Latrobe Regional Hospital, a medical center about two hours from Melb...
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He Died After He Was Taken Off Life Support. Then Walked Through The Door
The hospital staff was insistent, but Brenda Bennett-Johnson could not be sure. It was May 13 and Bennett-Johnson and her sister Rosie Brooks were visiting the intensive care unit at Chicago's Mercy Hospital & Medical Center, watching a man struggle for his life. Authorities said they were looking at their brother.
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IM Pei, The Architect Behind Louvre Pyramid, Dies At 102
I.M. Pei, an American modernist architect regarded as one of the world's leading designers of civic centers and cultural institutions, including the National Gallery of Art's East Building, the glass pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, died May 16 at a hospital in Manhattan. He ...
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49 Killed In New Zealand Mosque Shootings, Gunman Livestreamed Attack
Forty-nine people are dead and scores more are seriously injured after a heavily armed gunman clad in military-style gear opened fire during prayers at a mosque in the center of Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday. A second mosque was also targeted in what Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern called a well-planned "terrorist attack" making for "one of Ne...
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Daycare Said Toddler Fell, But Video Shows Something Much Worse
The mother of a 3-year-old girl went to Brighter Day Care in early February after being told her daughter had been hurt in a fall. She arrived at the St. Louis County day-care center to find her child "covered in blood," with a gash on her head that eventually required seven sutures, according to a lawyer for the family. The child was taken to the ...
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A Soldier Needed An Ear Transplant. Doctors 'Grew' A New One In Her Arm
Two years ago, Army Pvt. Shamika Burrage almost died when she was ejected from her car during a crash in Texas. Afterward, when she woke up in the hospital, she wasn't whole. Her entire left ear was gone.
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Their College-Bound Daughter Was Killed By A Stray Bullet. Then Their Act Of Kindness Touched Thousands.
Chris French headed into the intensive-care unit at Washington Hospital Center last August to visit his mother, who had just had surgery. He was wearing a visor that said FAMU.
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While Undergoing Brain Surgery, A Flute Player Performs
The delicate notes of a flute filled the air of an operating room at a Houston hospital last Tuesday. While playing music during a surgery isn't unusual, this song wasn't being piped through a speaker system.
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Woman Donated Her Embryos After A Fertility Clinic Malfunction. The Response Astonished Her.
The news hit Niki Schaefer hard. About 2,000 frozen embryos and eggs may have been destroyed by a lab malfunction at the University Hospitals Fertility Center in Cleveland.
