US hospitals raise alarm about higher-than-normal RSV cases in young children

Pediatricians across the United States are sounding the alarm about unusually high numbers of young children being admitted to emergency departments due to respiratory syncytial virus infection or RSV, a common virus that causes cold-like symptoms.


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Walkouts Raise Questions: How Do We Prepare Our Future Teachers?

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Drugmakers raise 2018 U.S. prices, stick to self-imposed limits

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Drugmakers opened the new year by raising U.S. prices on dozens of medicines, but early data showed the increases generally remained within a 10 percent self-imposed limit in response to a backlash from consumers and politicians.


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For Post-Menopausal Women, Vaginal Estrogens Do Not Raise Risk of Cancer, Other Diseases

Newswise imageWomen who have gone through menopause and who have been using a vaginal form of estrogen therapy do not have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer than women who have not been using any type of estrogen.
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Legionnaire’s cases among newborns raise questions about water births


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Four L.A. start-ups hunting for online video stars raise a combined $56 million

In the eyes of start-up investors, MTV’s “True Life,” HGTV’s “Rehab Addict” and Comedy Central’s “Roast” specials are so yesterday. Today’s hot productions are young, edgier and tend to premiere online. They carry the names “Human,” “Overhaul” and “All Def Comedy Roast.” And the companies who make…
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