Tag: media
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Washington, California sue over pelvic mesh implants
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state and California sued Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday, saying that for years the company misrepresented the risks of vaginal mesh implants it sold to repair pelvic collapse.
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Exclusive: U.N. may delay Syria talks, says U.S., Russia must guarantee truce
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States and Russia must make Syria's cessation of hostilities work or else it may become necessary to delay the resumption of peace talks, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura told Reuters on Tuesday. Without progress on the cessation of hostilities and on access for humanitarian aid, de…
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Giving Your All Without Giving Up – -The Toughest Part of Being a Cancer Survivor
I recently had the opportunity to connect with a friend from high school who like me, is a cancer survivor. We met for a bite to eat and to talk about where life had taken us over the past eight years. When we got around to chatting about the “C” word we both agreed that…
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In slump, oil firms turn to labs, data centers for help
In a basement lab of a North Dakota research center, Beth Kurz and an assistant are peering through a scanning electron microscope, studying samples from the state’s vast Bakken shale oil formation. Kurz, a hydrogeologist, is part of a team, which looks at using carbon dioxide to coax more oil out of wells that have…
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Europe on cusp of self-induced humanitarian crisis: UNHCR
“Europe is on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis”, the UN refugee agency's spokesman Adrian Edwards told a news briefing. The UNHCR also urged all EU member states to reinforce their capacity to register and process asylum seekers through their national procedures as well as through the European relocation scheme.
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Colorado shooting suspect said ‘no more baby parts’: reports
The man accused of opening fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado and killing three people said “no more baby parts” while he was being arrested, NBC News and other media reported on Saturday, citing unidentified law enforcement sources. The utterance from suspect Robert Lewis Dear, 57, would appear to reference the controversy surrounding…