CDC director: Covid-19 has ‘brought this nation to its knees’

Half of US states are seeing spikes in new coronavirus cases — and it’s not due to just increased testing, health officials say.


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Graduate Engineering Programs at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rank Among Best in the Nation

Newswise imageThe graduate programs in engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are once again considered among the best in the United States, according to the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings released this week.
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Dr Michael Mosely’s plan to help the nation slim down and sleep more

Heard colleagues talking about trying a weight-loss plan that involves cutting your calories on only two days of the week, and eating normally for the rest of the time? That was Dr Michael Mosley.
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Trump to cop and his wife: ‘You embody the goodness of our nation’

President Trump honored Officer Ryan Holets and his wife, Rebecca, during his State of the Union for adopting the baby of a heroin-addicted mother. “You embody the goodness of our nation,” Trump said. The couple received a standing ovation.


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Special Report: In a hospital ward in Yemen, the collapse of a nation

ADEN (Reuters) – Nahla Arishi, chief pediatrician at the al-Sadaqa hospital in this Yemeni port city, had not seen diphtheria in her 20-year career. Then, late last month, a three-year-old girl with high fever was rushed to Arishi’s ward. Her neck was swollen, and she gasped for air through a lump of tissue in her throat. Eight days later, she died.


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Wildfire forces full evacuation of Manitoba First Nation homes

Winds are pushing a 3,000 hectare wildfire perilously close to a remote northern Manitoba First Nation, forcing community leaders to order a full evacuation of homes while local and provincial fire crews battle the blaze.
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital Ranked First in Nation for Heart Failure Survival

– Recognizing heart failure as one of the most widespread and pernicious public health issues in the United States, Northwestern Memorial Hospital physicians and staff focused significant attention and resources on treating people in all stages of the disease, an effort that has the hospital ranked first in the United States for heart failure survival.
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