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Emerging talent gets spotlight at Fashion Designers Expo
Staff WriterThey are about to walk that runway until it's red. Fashion Designers Expo - that 3-day spate of runway shows spotlighting local up-and-coming designers - has decided to help raise awareness of how AIDS-HIV has reached epidemic proportions in South...Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), HIV
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Peninsula restaurants help in the fight against HIV/AIDS
A record dozen Peninsula restaurants are participating in Dining Out For Life, the annual fundraising evening to benefit ACCESS AIDS Care. This year’s event will take place April 25 at more than 70 Hampton Roads locations. Here’s how it...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Hampton Roads, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Lifestyle and Leisure
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'Central Park Five,' graphically told
WASHINGTON -- From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice. Still, from...
Tags: Justice System, Lawyers, Central Park, Crime, Law and Justice, New York City
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Free meningitis vaccines offered after West Hollywood man's death
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation will offer free meningitis vaccines starting Monday. The move comes just days after a West Hollywood man died from the disease. Anyone who might have been exposed to the disease or might be at risk should to make plans...
Tags: Disease Prevention, Vaccines, Chemical Industry, Preventative Medicine, Headaches
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Our View: Healthcare grants help make us better
It’s hard to quibble with a $185,000, few-strings-attached gift aimed at making our community healthier, even when that money is split between eight entities. Alliance Healthcare Foundation announced this week that it had awarded $25,000 each to... -
Dozens line up for meningitis vaccine in West Hollywood
Dozens of men lined up Monday morning at an AIDS Healthcare Foundation pharmacy in West Hollywood to get a free meningitis vaccine, days after a local man died from the disease. Allen Smith, a 21-year-old dance student, said he had a weak immune...
Tags: Disease Prevention, Vaccines, Chemical Industry, Common Cold, Preventative Medicine
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Drug overdose prevention could be right at our fingertips
What do you think is the leading cause of accidental death in California? If you said car accidents, you were wrong. In 2009, the most recent year for which statistics are available, 3,200 people in the state died in automobile crashes, while 3,561...
Tags: Tom Ammiano, Pain, Heroin, Hydrocodone (drug), Disasters and Accidents
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It's not just a disease, it's genetics
Call it kismet. Cristy and Rick Spooner of Rancho Santa Margarita finally learned two and a half weeks ago that two of their three daughters have a rare genetic disorder, a diagnosis for which they waited more than a decade. All it took was reconnecting...
Tags: Genetic Condition, Vitamin Therapy, Biology, Science and Technology, Diseases and Illnesses
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Oscars 2013: It takes a week's worth of parties ...
The Oscars are like the Super Bowl meets New Year's Eve for Hollywood. And as such there was no end to the parade of parties that swept the city leading up to Sunday night’s awards ceremony. Two of the most entertaining pre-parties were Thursday...
Tags: Joel Madden, Ron Howard, John Krasinski, Politics, January Jones
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C. Everett Koop dies at 96; former U.S. surgeon general
In the mid-1980s, the emerging AIDS epidemic was a high-profile target of vocal conservatives. Politicians and the religious right called for sweeping measures against those diagnosed with AIDS, including quarantine of patients, mandatory screening of...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Pregnancy and Childbirth, U.S. Public Health Service, Colleges and Universities, Religion and Belief
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Highlights of nation's most famous surgeon general
WASHINGTON (AP) — With a fiery drive belying the courtly beard and bow tie, C. Everett Koop led a groundbreaking fight against smoking and brought AIDS to the attention of a reluctant nation. Koop was the only surgeon general to become a household...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Ronald Reagan, Heroin, Washington, DC
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C. Everett Koop, 'rock star' surgeon general, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. C. Everett Koop has long been regarded as the nation's doctor— even though it has been nearly a quarter-century since he was surgeon general. Koop, who died Monday at his home in Hanover, N.H., at age 96, was by far the...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Tobacco Addiction, Politics, Abortion Issue, Surgery
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