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  Danna Capehart

  

  Pakistan’s first cartoon superheroine joins fight against polio

  PBS News - Carey Reed

  Amid a rise in polio cases in Pakistan, the country’s first animated female superhero, Burka Avenger, has joined the fight to eradicate the …

• http://www.salon.com/2014/10/27/must_see_morning_clip_john_oliver_dissects_americas_dangerous_sugar_addiction/

  

  Danna Capehart

  Oct 27, 2014
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  Danna Capehart

  

  Genetic Study Suggests Possible Causal Role for Cholesterol In Heart Valve Disease

  Forbes - Larry Husten

  Although LDL is an important risk factor for aortic valve disease, the precise role it plays has been uncertain. Lipid-lowering therapy in people with established aortic valve disease has not been shown to be beneficial. Now, however, a new genetic study published in JAMA suggests that LDL …

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  Danna Capehart

  

  From Brain To Computer: Helping 'Locked-In' Patient Get His Thoughts Out

  NPR

  In 2009, a man named Barry Beck suffered a series of strokes, which caused extensive damage to his right occipital lobe and to the brain stem. The geologist and author of several books was left completely unable to communicate, in a state known as locked-in syndrome. The condition was famously …

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  Danna Capehart

  

  N.Y., N.J. Say Quarantine Will Keep Some People At Home, Not At Hospitals

  NPR - Camila Domonoske

  Shots - Health News No, Seriously, How Contagious Is Ebola? Update on Oct. 27 at 12:55 a.m. ET: Hours after New York's governor announced a quarantine policy based on home stays, rather than confinement in a medical facility, the New Jersey Governor's Office released a statement saying its policy is …

• http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/how-fish-got-caught-in-the-middle-of-america-s-standoff-with-russia-20141027

  

  Danna Capehart

  Oct 27, 2014