By Mary Wisniewski CINCINNATI (Reuters) – Bubbly and athletic, Heather Padgett, raised in a loving family in the Cincinnati suburbs, would not fit the stereotype of a heroin addict. Until she got clean last August, she was part of what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called a heroin epidemic – a 100 percent rise in heroin addiction among Americans between 2002 and 2013. The sharp rise
From a “DNA schedule” to allegations that it’s been “consistently proven” that mothers have safe alternatives besides abortion when they have a life-threatening pregnancy condition, Thursday night’s GOP debate was rife with contradictions when it came to issues of reproductive rights.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — International health officials are scrambling, without much success, to find meningitis C vaccines as an outbreak of the child-killing disease threatens to balloon into an epidemic.
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — International health officials are scrambling, without much success, to find meningitis C vaccines as an outbreak of the child-killing disease threatens to balloon into an epidemic.
International aid poured into Myanmar on Friday following weeks of heavy monsoon flooding that aid agencies say is set to extend further across the low-lying southern delta region. “We’re very concerned about secondary flooding that is likely going to happen in the delta region (as more water flows downstream),” said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The World Food Programme, the U.N.
International aid poured into Myanmar on Friday following weeks of heavy monsoon flooding that aid agencies say is set to extend further across the low-lying southern delta region. “We’re very concerned about secondary flooding that is likely going to happen in the delta region (as more water flows downstream),” said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The World Food Programme, the U.N.
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