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Starling Marte struggled during spring training and hit just.159. The Mets would like to think they have a version of the player who owned a.292/.347/.468 slash line with 18 homers in 118 games two years ago. Marte is open to the possibility of serving as the Mets’ designated hitter in 2024.
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2 years ago Read more at New York Post

Princess Catherine said she is getting a course of preventive chemotherapy. In medical settings, it is usually called adjuvant chemotherapy. "Unfortunately, so much of the cancer we diagnose is unexpected," Dr. Elena Ratner said.
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2 years ago Read more at The New York Times

The First Lady Jill Biden discussed the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research at an event at the Getty Center on Monday, March 25. Biden was joined in conversation with actress Halle Berry billed as “Writing New Stories About Women's Health” This annual event seeks to connect entertainment industry players to change-makers in a wide range of fields to inspire writers, artists and executives to use media to advance social change.
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2 years ago Read more at LA Daily News

Michigan State University will host its first sexual health conference on March 30 at the MSU Union. The conference was created and organized by two MSU students aiming to create a comfortable space for education and discussion surrounding sexual health.
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2 years ago Read more at The State News

Communications Sciences and Disorders department announces the appointment of four new department chairs. Karen Mainess, PhD CCC-SLP, joined the department in 2001. She currently teaches graduate research sequence for the MS degree.
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2 years ago Read more at Loma Linda University

The expo will be held in honor of Colon Cancer Awareness Month. More than 30 vendors will be in attendance. The event is free and open to the public.
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2 years ago Read more at WTXL ABC 27 Tallahassee News

Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl had a severe pigeon virus and rat poison in his system at the time of his death last month. Veterinary pathologists from the Bronx Zoo conducted a necropsy of the beloved owl following his death on Feb. 23, resulting from a crash into a building on the Upper West Side. Flaco's severe illness and death are ultimately attributed to a combination of factors—infectious disease, toxin
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2 years ago Read more at NBC New York

Martin Griffiths is stepping down for health reasons after nearly three years of trying to tackle mounting humanitarian crises in Ukraine, Gaza and Africa. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres praised Griffiths "for his tremendous leadership and service to the United Nations and the humanitarian community in advocating for people affected by crises and mobilizing resources to address their needs" Griffiths, 72, told The Associated Press earlier this month that he got a severe case of COVID-19 in October and is still
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2 years ago Read more at PBS NewsHour

A new poll on children’s health reveals that a lot of parents struggle to decide whether their child should stay home from school if they don’t feel well mentally and emotionally. According to the report, 1/4 of parents say the attendance policies are challenging for kids with medical conditions 2/3 say their adolescent or teen worries about how sick days may impact grades 1/5 of parents consider if their child needs a mental health day.
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2 years ago Read more at WILX

Steward’s private-equity, for-profit model was a novelty that no one quite knew how to regulate. When Steward Health Care first came to Massachusetts in 2010, it was cast as something of a savior. It offered to buy and revive a chain of Catholic community hospitals that were vital to the health care system but failing fast under the weight of aging facilities.
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2 years ago Read more at The Boston Globe