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Tuberculosis Scare at Three Chicago-Area Hospitals
Hundreds of patients and staff at three Chicago-area hospitals may have been exposed to...
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China has long way to go on health reforms
Beijing - Chinese authorities released a long-awaited health reform action plan...
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Shriners Hospitals May Close a Quarter of Their Facilities
Shriners Hospitals for Children is considering closing a quarter of their facilities as donations...
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WHO calls for disaster-resistant hospitals, health facilities
Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday urged Asian countries to...
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Study Finds High Rate of Rehospitalizations among Medicare Patients
A new study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that one in five...
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CQC: 21 NHS Trusts Fail Hygiene Tests
According to a report released Friday by the Care Quality Commission, the new “super...
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Adoption of Electronic Medical Records Going Slow in US Hospitals
According to a survey published online Wednesday by the New England Journal of Medicine, only 9...
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Study Links Head Aches to Weather
A recent study showed that there is a strong link between the warming of the weather and head...
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Washington Legalizes Assisted Suicide
Washington State passed Initiative 1000, which means it has legalized assisted suicide. Starting...
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Mixing Plavix with Stomach Medicines Raises Risk of Death By 25 Percent
Mixing Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s anti-clotting Plavix, also known as clopidrogel, with...
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MRSA Infections Acquired in Hospitals’ ICUs Fall By 50 Percent
Cases of infection with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus acquired in hospitals’...
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Zimbabwe Fights Worst Cholera Outbreak in Its History
Zimbabwe is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak in the history of the country with almost...
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MRSA Infections Declining in Hospital Intensive-Care Units
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections among some of the most...
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Swimmers Exposed to Drug-resistant Staph Bacteria
People who swim at crowded public beaches are exposed to antibiotic resistant staph bacteria...
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Peanut Plant Owner Knew There Were Some Salmonella Problems at the Plant
According to recent reports in the salmonella outbreak case, the owner of the Georgia plant knew...
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New Discovery in Stem Cell Research Field: Skin Cells Reprogrammed into Heart Cells
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced they were able to reprogram skin...
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IBM Helps Google In An Effort To Put Personal Health Data Online
It looks like Google and IBM will team up in order to help get personal health data online, as the...
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$100 million Gift for AIDS Institute
AIDS researchers hailed a $100 million gift from a Cambridge technology magnate that will create an...
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HealthGrades: Top-Rated Hospitals Have 27 Percent Lower Death Rate
Another report, this time coming from HealthGrades, comes to the rescue of people looking for the...
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FDA Finally Approves Geron’s stem cells therapy
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just tapped a Northern Californian biotech company to...
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California Hospital Death Rates for 2006/2007 Released
In an attempt to help improve health care and people looking for better places to treat their...
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California Hospitals’ Death Rates Vary Widely
According to a recent study that looked at mortality rates for California hospitals between 2006...
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China’s Government Plans to Spend $124 Billion on Health Care Reform
China’s government announced the decision to spend more than $120 billion over the next...
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MRSA Infections on the Rise in US Children
Children in the US are developing more serious head and neck staph infections that are harder to...
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Community-Acquired MRSA Infections On The Rise Among Kids
A study appearing in the Archives of Otalaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery reveals that rates of...
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Seven States Sue Federal Government over Abortion Rule
California and six other states sued the federal government Thursday over the “conscience...
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UNICEF To Provide $5 Million To Zimbabwe Health Sector
UNICEF Executive Director M. Ann Veneman made a three-day visit in Zimbabwe at the end of...
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Checklists Might Reduce Risks During And After The Surgery
Simple checklists before, during and after the surgery might reduce the number of surgery-related...
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Another Person Dies In Minnesota From Salmonella
The peanut butter-caused salmonella provoked another victim in Minnesota, an elderly man living in...
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Researchers Find Simple Steps To Be Really Useful For Surgical Teams
Researchers have just announced on Tuesday that a few simple steps may help doctors and nurses from...
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US health industry promises to tackle spiralling costs
Washington - Representatives of the US healthcare industry on Monday pledged to find savings of...
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New York finds more probable cases, more schools closed
New York - Authorities confirmed Thursday a total of 49 swine flu cases in New York City and...
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Mardi Gras Shootings Leave Seven People Injured
A New Orleans Mardi Gras parade turned into a chaotic scene on Fat Tuesday when several gunshots...
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California Hospital Death Rates For 2006/2007 Released
In an attempt to help improve health care and people looking for better places to treat their...
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Peanut Butter, Possibly The Source Of Current Salmonella Outbreak
Peanut butter may have infected 399 people in 42 states with salmonella, according to the Minnesota...
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Health Officials In Minnesota: Peanut Butter Might Have Started Salmonella Outbreak
Even if federal officials have yet to establish the cause of a salmonella outbreak that has...
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Barack Obama’s Health Reform Gets Vote Of Confidence
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Obama’s Health Care Reform May Not Work
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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National Blood Donor Month Is Here
January marks the National Blood Donor Month, but fewer people than ever remember this. In...
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14 Pound Baby Delivered Via C-Section In California
A woman from Laguna Hills, Calif. delivered a 14-pound baby boy on Dec. 23.
The baby, delivered...
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1 Dead, 3 Injured as Sacramento House Explodes due to Gas Leak
A violent explosion occurred in a Sacramento suburb due to a suspected natural gas leak. The home...
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Winter Storm, ‘Hazardous’ Traveling Conditions Make Victims
A powerful winter storm hit the US West Coast painting all landscapes in white. The storm featured...
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Controversy In Health Care – “Conscience Protection” Rule Passed
The Bush Administration is clearly taking advantage of the least few days in office to pass some...
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Black Friday Ends Tragically for Wal-Mart Worker
What was supposed to be the busiest retail day of the year ended tragically for a man working...
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Barack Obama’s Health-Care Reform May Help Many People
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Google Releases Its Newest Tool: Google Flu Trends
Google Inc. announced the release of a new tool, which will
provide information about potential...
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California To Carry Out Largest Earth Quake Drill In U.S. History Today
The state of California will carry out the largest earth quake drill in United States history on...
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Health Officials Urge People to Get Flu Shots
Given that
the flu season is nearing rapidly, United States health officials have...
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Intel and GE Sign $250 Million Deal in Health Care Field
Two Giant US companies announced Thursday that they will team up to produce a line of...
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Need a dog toilet, a knotless balloon? Meet the inventors
Geneva - What to do if you live next door to a veterinarian whose clients' dogs always leave behind...
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New Yorkers, You Are All Invited to “Play Safe” on Valentine’s Day!
In an attempt to reduce the number of sexually transmitted diseases, the New York City Department...
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IBM Announces Partnership with Google Health
People who already use Google Health program will now be able to transfer their health records...
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Mass. Man Donates $100 M for AIDS Institute
On Wednesday, the Massachusetts General Hospital was donated $100 million to create an...
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The Year of the Ox Caused Quite a Stir in China
Chinese people, including millions of quake survivors, observed the Lunar New Year eve in the...
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Surgeon’s Checklist Could Reduce Surgical Errors
A new study shows that surgeons who used a verbal checklist before, during and after the...
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Simple Checklist Reduces Risk of Accidental Deaths in Surgery
Wednesday, doctors reported that a simple checklist made out to confirm a patient’s name, the...
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Deep Brain Stimulation: A Remedy For Parkinson’s Patients?
Deep brain stimulation improves both physical function and quality of life in...
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14-Pound Baby Delivered Via C-Section In Calif.
A woman from Laguna Hills, Calif. delivered a 14-pound baby boy on Dec. 23.
The baby, delivered...
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‘Right of Conscience’ Rule Passed. What’s Next?
The Bush administration passed on Thursday the “conscience protection” rule,...
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Surgeons Perform First Face Transplant In US
Tuesday, the
Cleveland Clinic announced that surgeons had performed the first face
transplant in...
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Widow of Chris Baker, Travis Barker’s Late Assistant, Sues
Another lawsuit was filed in connection with the fiery plane crash in which Travis Barker and DJ...
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The Economic Crisis Is Affecting National Security
The economic crisis that has hit the United States this year – and that has been looming over our...
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Study: Heart Attacks Deadlier for Women
New research in the latest edition of Circulation: The Journal of the American Heart Association...
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Medical Residents Should Sleep More to Prevent Deadly Errors
A series of reports done on the medical field have revealed
serious medical errors....
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Medical Residents Need a Sleep-Break after 16 Hours of Work
Medical residents should work no longer than 16 hours in a row without a five-hour break for sleep...
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Experts Recommend More Sleep for Medical Residents
A panel of
experts at the Institute of Medicine issued a recommendation to medical
residents...
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U.S Attorney General Suffered Fainting Spell
MICHAEL Mukasey, the U.S. Attorney General, collapsed at the conclusion of one of his speeches,...
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Magnetic Field Therapy Said To Help Cure Body's Ills
Munich - Magnetic fields, which are common in our everyday lives but cannot be felt, are also...
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Barack Obama’s Health-Care Reform May Help Many
The universal health-care systems, proposed by president elect Barack Obama, may be the last hope...
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Google Flu Trends – A New Tool to Track Flu Outbreaks
Google wants to be more than a giant search engine; it wants to be closer to its users through its...
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Diarrhea Bacteria, Quite Common in U.S. Hospitals, Survey Shows
As many as 13 out of every 1,000 hospital
patients are infected with Clostridium difficile,or
C....
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Chip Giant Intel Corp. Releases New Home Medical Monitor
Intel Corp., the biggest computer chip
maker, took a big step forward into health care Monday when...
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Maternity Tourist Boom Brings Midwife Crisis to Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Like most things from the cradle to the grave in Hong Kong, it used to be simply a...
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Many U.S. Patients Dissatisfied with Their Pain Care
According to a national survey of patients’
experiences, patients in many U.S.
hospitals are not...
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CDC: Food Allergies Up 18 Percent among US Kids
Food allergies continue to be on the rise among US kids according to a report released...
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Angioplasty Overused in Heart Patients
Percutaneous coronary intervention, or PCI is the clinical
name for angioplasty and cardiac...
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Radical Hindus Attack Christians over "Forced Conversions"
New Delhi - Communal tensions are on the rise in eastern India as radical Hindus in the state of...
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Swine flu cases rise to over 50 in EU
Stockholm/Geneva - The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the European Union went beyond 50...
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45 suspected and confirmed swine flu cases in New York City
New York - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday that 28 cases of swine flu have been...
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Twelve factory workers killed in blast in Philippines
Manila - Twelve factory workers were killed and five injured when a boiler at a...
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Italian earthquake toll at 211 after students found dead
L'Aquila, Italy - The bodies of four students located Tuesday under rubble brought to 211 the death...
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Italian earthquake death toll now at 207
Rome - By midday Tuesday the death toll from an earthquake that struck central Italy early the...
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Central Italy reels as quake claims at least 50 dead
Rome - At least 50 people were confirmed dead - amid fears of that number rising - after a cental...
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Central Italy reels as quake claims at least 27 dead
Rome - At least 27 people were reported dead - amid fears of that number rising considerably...
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Israel Rejects Calls For Truce, Gaza Toll Nears 370
Gaza/Tel Aviv - Israel rejected calls by the United Nations and European Union for an...
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Banda Aceh Looks To Future Four Years After Tsunami
Banda Aceh, Indonesia - Grass has covered the mass grave known as Kuburan Massal...
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Russia Pursues Ambitious Goals Despite Financial Crisis
Moscow - Russia set out its development goals until 2012 this year, but the four-year budget plan...
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Pakistan arrests suspected plotter of Mumbai attacks
Islamabad - Pakistani security personnel have arrested the alleged planner of the November 26...
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Zimbabwe Declares National Emergency
Zimbabwe declared a national health emergency as the cholera epidemic froze the entire health...
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Mumbai, city of extremes, has history of resilience
Washington - Hours after the shooting stopped, as the overwhelming stench of death still wafted...
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Battle with terrorists continues in Mumbai, toll 119
New Delhi - Indian forces continued their battle with terrorists in luxury hotels in the financial...
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Britain Shocked By Rapist Father's Reign Of Terror
London - A man dubbed the "British Fritzl" began a life behind bars Wednesday, leaving a...
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Elders Tell MDC: Join Government Now, Push For Change Later
Johannesburg - The Elders on Monday urged Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change...
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China subway tunnel cave-in leaves one dead, 16 missing
Beijing - A cave-in killed at least one person and left 16 missing after trapping dozens on...
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Haiti school collapse death toll rises to 90; owner arrested
Port-au-Prince - The number of children killed the collapse of a school in the Haitian capital...
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Vatican: Pius XII war archives won't go public before 2014
Vatican City - Secret Vatican archives on Pope Pius XII's controversial World War II pontificate...
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Death Toll above 230 in Pakistan Earthquake
Islamabad - The official death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit south-western Pakistan...
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Earthquake Kills More than 140 in Pakistan
Islamabad - A powerful earthquake rattled Pakistan's south-western Balochistan province on...
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Sister Emmanuelle dies at age 99 after life-long fight to aid poor
Paris - Sister Emmanuelle, the unorthodox and popular Belgian-born French nun who spent her life...
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Pope Benedict defends controversial pontiff's WWII record
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday delivered an impassioned defence of Pope Pius XII's...
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China's Health Minitry: 47,000 Infants Hospitalized over Tainted Milk
Beijing - The number of infants hospitalized for problems linked to
the consumption of tainted...
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Cholera Outbreak in Pakistan's Violence-Hit North-West
Islamabad - Health authorities treated hundreds of patients affected by a cholera outbreak in...
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India: Temple Stampede Death Toll Rise to 224
New Delhi - The death toll from a stampede of Hindu worshippers at a temple in India's...
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Indian Temple Stampede Death Toll Could Rise to More than 190
New Delhi - A day after a stampede at a Hindu temple, police in the north-western Indian town of...
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Indian Temple Stampede Kills at least 147 People
New Delhi - A stampede sparked by a rush of worshippers on a narrow
slope at a Hindu temple in...
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More than 140 killed in stampede in Indian temple
More than a 140 worshippers were killed and an equal number
injured in a stampede at a Hindu...
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Nine Students Killed in Finnish School Shooting
Nine people were killed on Tuesday in a vocational college
for adults in Kauhajoki, Finland when a...
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