Posts Tagged Health

Aid group: Syrian refugees face dire health risks

This citizen journalism image provided by Qusair Lens which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian rebels preparing to repel a coordinated attack by government forces, in Qusair, Homs province, Syria, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Syrian troops backed by tanks and warplanes launched an assault Sunday on a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, pounding the area with airstrikes and artillery salvos that killed tens of people and forced residents to scramble for cover in basements and makeshift bunkers, activists said. (AP Photo/Qusair Lens)

BEIRUT (AP) — Fierce street fighting in a Syrian town near the Lebanese border has killed at least 28 elite members of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, activists said Monday, as Syrian government forces pushed deeper into the strategic, opposition-held town.

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What do we eat? New food map will tell us

In this photo taken April 3, 2013, nutrition scholar Prof. Barry Popkin, who heads the University of North Carolina Food Research Program, poses for a photo in his Chapel Hill, N.C., office. Popkin and researchers he leads are creating a gargantuan map of what foods Americans are purchasing in stores and eating, something he calls "mapping the food genome." "The country needs something like this, given all of the questions about our food supply," he says. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Do your kids love chocolate milk? It may have more calories on average than you thought.

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Marine who dumped toxins felt illness was payback

This undated image provided by Capt. Bobby Rice shows Ron Poirier fishing for tuna. As a young Marine electronics technician at Camp Lejeune in the mid-1970s, Poirier figured he’d dumped hundreds of gallons of toxic solvents onto the ground. It would be decades before he realized that he had unknowingly contributed to the worst drinking water contamination in the country's history - and, perhaps, to his own premature death. "It's just a terrible thing," the 58-year-old veteran said shortly before succumbing to esophageal cancer at a Cape Cod nursing facility on May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Bobby Rice)

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Ron Poirier couldn’t escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment.

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Rabies confirmed in bat found in Albuquerque

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico health officials are urging parents to tell children not to handle wild animals.

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Marine daughter seeks dignity for ‘Devil Dog pups’

Mary Blakely clears dirt and grass from a 60-year-old temporary tin marker in the "Babyland" section of Onslow Memorial Park in Jacksonville, N.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. The Marine's daughter scoured this and other graveyards for the names of children who may have died because of contaminated water at nearby Camp Lejeune. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely’s eyes filled with tears. On line after line, the entry read simply “Baby Boy” or “Baby Girl,” followed by a surname and a burial date.

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