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Baby Boomers And Hepatitis C Proposed Test
Health officials are asking all baby boomers to be tested at least once for the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus, according to proposed guidelines. It is often undiagnosed and the virus is contracted through contact with blood from an infected person. [...]

Prison Rape: 10% Report Abuse
The U.S. Department of Justice reported hat nearly 10% of the prison population has suffered some form of sexual abuse or rape. In fact, rape can occur in prison at the hands of other inmates or guards responsible for their [...]

Florida Rash On Students Is Mysterious
Two teachers and 15 students at McArthur High School in Florida are transported to the hospital to be treated for an unexplained rash as a hazmat response team was quickly dispensed to search for a possible cause. As soon as [...]

Obese 9-Year-Old Returns Home After Losing 50 Pounds
A dangerously obese, Cleveland, Ohio 9-year-old boy who had been removed from his home and mother’s care after being discovered to be weighing over 200 pounds, returns home after shedding 50 pounds. After being placed in foster care last fall, [...]

Flesh-Eating Disease Victim Hopeful On Fighting Bacteria
Aimee Copeland, 24, is a Georgia grad student who lost her leg to a flesh-eating disease and contracted the bacteria after a freak zip-line accident, but she is making an “astonishing” recovery, her father said. However, she is still in [...]