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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani health worker Bushra Bibi spent eight years trekking to remote villages, carefully dripping polio vaccine into toddlers’ pursed mouths to protect them from the crippling disease. Now the 35-year-old mother is too scared to go to work after masked men on motorbikes gunned down nine of her fellow health workers in a string of attacks this week. "I have seen so much pain in the eyes of mothers whose children have been infected. So I have never seen this as just a job. It is my passion," she said. "But I also have a family to look after . . . . . .

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CONCORD, N. H. (AP) ? Hospitals across the country recommended hepatitis C testing for about 7,900 patients last summer after a traveling medical worker was accused of stealing drugs and infecting patients with tainted syringes in New Hampshire. But five months later, nearly half of those who were possibly exposed to the liver-destroying disease in other states have yet to be tested.

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Here?s a story that will give you paws. Or at least it has paws. According to TMZ, Justin Bieber gave an unsuspecting fan an early Christmas present by unloading his pet hamster, named PAC, on her during a recent concert. ?That?s all you,? Bieber can. . .

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CHICAGO (AP) ? It happened after Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Colo. , and now Sandy Hook: People figure there surely were signs of impending violence. But experts say predicting who will be the next mass shooter is virtually impossible ? partly because as commonplace as these calamities seem, they are relatively rare crimes.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Had there been a vote on Republican House Speaker John Boehner’s "Plan B" to avert the so-called U. S. fiscal cliff on Thursday night, it would not have been close. He was probably 40 to 50 votes short of the number he needed to avoid a humiliating defeat at the hands of his own party, according to rough estimates from Republican members of Congress and staff members. It was not for lack of effort. . . .

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CONCORD, N. H. (AP) ? Five more people have been diagnosed with the same strain of hepatitis C a former traveling hospital worker is accused of spreading through tainted needles, bringing the total to 44 in four states.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? Sixteen-year-old Jason Alexander weighed 326 pounds four months ago when he and 13 classmates boarded a plane for a weight-loss boarding school in South Carolina.

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Nitin Chhoda, a trained physical therapist, author and owner of emrnews. com recently revealed the benefits of EMR for physical therapy services. Denville, NJ (PRWEB) December 21, 2012 EMR, or electronic medical record management is quickly becoming not only popular but essential amongst those who own and manage their physical therapy practices and Chhoda has been teaching physical therapists the benefits of physical therapy software for many years now. He is an expert in this field and is effective because he has put the power of EMR to work in his own practice. . . .

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A federal crackdown on illicit foreign supplies of human growth hormone has failed to stop rampant misuse, and instead has driven record sales of the drug by some of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies, an Associated Press investigation shows.

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Parker Waichman LLP has filed a lawsuit on behalf of an Ohio man implanted with the Zimmer NexGen