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On the Town: A fundraiser on Wisteria Lane
After a hugely successful eight-year run that earned numerous Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild wins, ABC's “Desperate Housewives” wraps production on its final episode this week. The two-hour series finale, slated to run on Sunday,...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Music, Genes and Chromosomes, Lungs and Airways, Drama (genre)
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Burb's Eye View: It's getting easier to find the right genes
The steps leading down to the quiet storefront added to the intimidation. He remembers it not as a cellar, exactly, but it was a small, dense room underneath the street-level life pulsing away in the evening. Leo Myers, then just a teen, approached the...Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., PBS (tv network), Research, Abraham Lincoln
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Something we can do to help
Never will the term “life-blood of the community” be more appropriate than it will be this Sunday. Hundreds of people are expected to turn out at Saint Finbar’s Catholic Church to donate blood in honor of 5-year-old Matthew Fernandez, a...Tags: Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics, Facebook, Blood, Human Interest
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Blood drive organized to help children
When 5-year-old Matthew Fernandez’s leukemia diagnosis because public in April, Michele Ramos knew she had to do more than just help the family with groceries. “You cannot help but look your children in the eyes and wonder if this could have...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Charity, Facebook, Health, Leukemia
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An anchor between two worlds
Steve Silverman earlier this week sat at the front of his fourth-grade classroom during a reading exercise, pulled out a crumpled ball of paper and lobbed it at a student.
With their hands stretched skyward, the George Washington Elementary students...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Brain, University of California, Berkeley, Health, Genetic Condition
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A breath of fresh hair
Burbank business owner Stephanie Singleton says "hair is hair," but her salon day at the PATH homeless shelter in Los Angeles brightened clients' day. The scheduled "Glamour Day" was intended to expose clients to hair, makeup, photography and other...Tags: Rosie Perez, Hair and Nails, Ohio, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Homelessness
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Police Report
The following were taken from reports filed with the Burbank Police Department. AREA 1 2200 block of North Buena Vista Street At 9:20 p.m. Sept. 25 at Quality Inn Motel on North Buena Vista Street, officers found a woman loitering in the parking lot....Tags: Heavy Engineering, National or Ethnic Minorities, Hair and Nails, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), Travel
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Transplants give Burbank woman the gift of life
Monica O'Brien is celebrating the gift of life.
The 33-year-old Burbank resident has survived three liver transplants and despite the odds, gave birth to a daughter in July.
O'Brien was born with hepatitis C but wasn't diagnosed until after high...Tags: Happiness (state of mind), Liver, Surgery, Pancreas, Charity
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Children swallowing batteries at alarming rate - ER visits double
jscherder@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo -- It's now estimated that every three hours a child shows up in a U.S. emergency room with a battery that's been swallowed or placed in the mouth, ears or nose. That number is almost double what it was 20 years ago, according to a new...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Ear, Nose, and Throat, Health
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Robots useful in hysterectomies
A common operation in the United States, hysterectomies are now going high-tech as many surgeons embrace robotics as another tool to help them do their jobs better. NorthShore University Health System has two robotic surgical systems used for...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health, Hysterectomy, Cancer
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Passenger's Implant Claim Triggers Flight Diversion
CNNBANGOR, Maine -- A passenger who claimed to have a device surgically implanted inside her spurred authorities to divert a North Carolina-bound jetliner to Maine on Tuesday, federal officials said. Doctors aboard US Airways Flight 787 examined the woman...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Lungs and Airways, Peter King, Health, Bangor
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Authorities believe missing Northern California girl is dead
Investigators don't know where 15-year-old Sierra LaMar is, but they are almost certain she is dead. For more than two months, the high school cheerleader's family has been holding out hope. They have organized repeated searches of the Northern...Tags: DNA, Safeway Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Biotechnology Industry, Police Arrests
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