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Overlooked no more: Lilian Lindsay, Britain’s first female dentist End-shutdown
When the headmistress of North London Collegiate School told Lilian Lindsay that she should become a teacher and that would prevent her from finding any other kind of job, Lindsay replied: “You can’t help me being a dentist.” “I knew nothing of dentistry,” Lindsay wrote in her unpublished autobiography, “but having boldly declared that she […]
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An ISU student created a media platform by and about people of color to fill a void in college journalism – Chicago Tribune End-shutdown
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It was sickle cell disease that brought Chicago-born, Detroit-raised Tiffani Jackson to Illinois State University Bloomington-Normal in 2017. Having endured a few bouts, called pain crises, while attending Illinois State University of Grambling, he made the decision to move closer to home. With that, Louisiana lost a music technology major, but Illinois gained a journalism […]
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Are Kwame and Chelsea still together? End-shutdown
happy Love is blind day! The fourth season of the Netflix show just dropped, and fans are already placing their bets on which couples will make it to the end of the show. Trying to find the love of your life without seeing their face first may seem strange at first, but it’s heartwarming to […]
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The most detailed map of the mouse brain includes 5,200 different types of cells End-shutdown
Types of cells in the brain of a mouse, colored according to their type Cindy Van Velthoven The most detailed cellular map of a mouse brain to date could deepen our understanding of how the organ evolved in mammals and what goes wrong under certain neurological conditions. Several research groups have previously mapped hundreds of […]
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Notable and Quotable: Correction – WSJ End-shutdown
Updated March 25, 2023 at 10:02 am ET Charlie Kirk speaks at an event in Miami on February 3. Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg News A March 15 correction to a column By Hannah Holzer of the Sacramento Bee: An earlier version of this column included a statement that Charlie Kirk had “called for the lynching […]
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Journalists Dig Into Insulin Costs and Prior Authorization Policy End-shutdown
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Health inequity should be labeled a ‘never event’ End-shutdown
Progress in eliminating health inequities is extremely slowly. I use health inequities as an umbrella term that refers to differences between demographics in health care treatment or health outcomes, as well as differences in the treatment and representation of health care employees in leadership and government positions. . While increased awareness of disparities has improved […]
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My mother in law is so possessive of our unborn baby. What I can do? | Family End-shutdown
I am pregnant with my first child. My husband and I waited a long time to tell my in law because we knew all hell would break loose once they found out. As soon as we told my mother-in-law, she yelled and began to dash across the room in dramatic fashion. Everything became her. My […]
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All adults should be tested for hepatitis B at least once, CDC says End-shutdown
CNN — A new recommendation from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that all adults should be screened for hepatitis B at least once in their lifetime, a disease that is linked to liver disease. and cancer. The agency estimates that between 580,000 and 2.4 million people are living with hepatitis B, […]
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SIDS increased for black babies during early pandemic and cause unknown, CDC says End-shutdown
Despite a record infant mortality rate in 2020, a new study finds an unexpected rise in unexplained deaths in black babies during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. The rate of SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, rose 15 percent in a single year, from 33.3 deaths per 100,000 babies born in 2019 to […]
