Year after NH hepatitis C outbreak, testing slows

Year after NH hepatitis C outbreak, testing slows

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Before he was hired by Exeter Hospital, Kwiatkowski worked as a traveling cardiac technologist in 18 hospitals in seven states — including a stint at Hays Medical Center — moving from job to job despite being fired twice about allegations of drug use …
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Federal Research $ $ $ on Senate Agenda This Week

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BALTIMORE — Advocates of robust funding for biomedical research have a busy week ahead of them in their efforts to restore the budget for the National Institutes of Health. Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations …
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“Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”: The new warrior cop is out of

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In 2011, for example, police in Baltimore County, Maryland, sent a tactical unit to raid a $ 65 buy-in poker game at the Lynch Point Social Club. From 2006 to 2008, SWAT teams in South Carolina staged a number of … “The typical police raid of these …
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