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Sometimes by the time they get back (the) patients are dead," laments Dr Jefferson Sibley, the hospital's medical director. Battered by years of civil war and then in 2014-16 by the worst Ebola epidemic in history, Liberia's health sector is on its...
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The Ebola clinic stands in a hospital compound in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a day's drive from the regional capital Goma but close to home for Reuters TV cameraman Djaffar Al Katanty. "We were seeing people dying day after day. On this...
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(Bloomberg) -- Ucommune is preparing to raise as much as $200 million in a 2020 U.S. initial public offering, people familiar with the matter said, a capital infusion that would help the loss-making Chinese startup battle WeWork Cos. across the world...
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(Bloomberg) -- A U.S. law prohibiting federal agencies from buying Huawei Technologies Co. equipment isn’t legislative punishment but serves to protect against China gaining a strategic foothold in those agencies’ networks, the government said.Justic...
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Chubb becomes first major U.S. insurance company to restrict coverage for coal, citing the threat of climate change.
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A woman writes a response to Apoorva Mandavilli, who wrote a piece about how Lyme disease is easily treatable in the New York Times based on her son's experience.
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Scientists warn that heat waves are becoming increasingly common due to human-caused climate change.
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Cranes hoist cargo onto the deck, power tools scream out and workers bustle through the maze of passageways inside the German icebreaker RV Polarstern, preparations for a yearlong voyage that organizers say is unprecedented in scale and ambition. In...
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Conspiracy theorists took to social media in a flurry of excitement Wednesday after a mysterious flying object resembling an orange fireball streaked across the Florida sky. Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell at the Center for Astrophysics has a more...
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A U.S. judge will reconsider a jury's $80 million damage award to a California cancer victim who used Monsanto's Roundup weed-killer. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said at a hearing Tuesday that he will reduce but not entirely eliminate punitiv...
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A concerned mother took to Facebook to warn others after her son contracted anoften-fatal bacterial infection while swimming in a Maryland bay
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The "July Effect" is rooted in the idea of less experienced doctors handling your care and an uptick in mistakes, since July is when new residents start in teaching hospitals—but is there any truth to that notion?
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Summer is prime time for outdoor concerts with stacks of booming speakers, large sporting events with chanting, cheering crowds, and eye-popping fireworks displays. But these activities have a po...
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(Bloomberg) -- Qualcomm Inc. can’t avoid renegotiating many of its licensing agreements while the company appeals a judge’s ruling that its business model is anti-competitive.The order comes six-weeks after U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh sided with the...
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(Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc.’s applications, including the main social-media service and Instagram photo-sharing app, were experiencing connectivity issues on Wednesday.“During one of our routine maintenance operations, we triggered an issue that is...