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Barbara Nabulo cleans clothes at her home in Busamaga-Mutukula village in Mbale, Uganda, Thursday, April 25, 2024. There can be lifelong challenges for people with sickle cell disease in rural Uganda, where it remains poorly understood. (AP Photo/Hajarah Nalwadda)

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A rural Ugandan community is a hot spot for sickle cell disease. But one patient gives hope
By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press
Sun,05/12/24-1:04AM , 39 Reads
MBALE, Uganda (AP) — Barbara Nabulo was one of three girls in her family. But when a sister died, her mother wailed at the funeral that she was left with just one and a half daughters.

The half was the ailing Nabulo, who at age 12 grasped her mother’s meaning.
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Bottles of alcohol sit on shelves at a bar in Houston on June 23, 2020. Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods starting in the 2010s have thrown cold water on that. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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Less alcohol, or none at all, is one path to better health
By CARLA K. JOHNSON - AP Medical Writer
Mon,04/29/24-9:35AM , 62 Reads
It’s wine time. Beer Thirty. Happy hour. Five o’clock somewhere.

Maybe it's also time to rethink drinking?
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A sign for the Chipotle restaurant in Pittsburgh's Market Square is pictured Feb. 8, 2016. Last week, the Newport Beach, California-based Mexican chain asked its U.S. and Canadian employees to temporarily select another protein option for their meals to preserve its supply of chicken. But the chain said Thursday, April 25, 2024, that employees can go back to eating chicken again. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

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Chipotle reverses protein policy, says workers can choose chicken once again
By DEE-ANN DURBIN - AP Business Writer
Thu,04/25/24-12:49PM , 43 Reads
Chipotle says its employees can choose chicken once again.
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Funmilayo Kotun, 66-years-old, a malaria patient is photographed in her one room in Makoko neighbourhood of Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, April 20, 2024. When cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder that climate change is reviving the threat, or broadening the range, of some diseases. But across the African continent malaria has never left.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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Climate change is bringing malaria to new areas. In Africa, it never left
By DAN IKPOYI AND FARAI MUTSAKA - Associated Press
Thu,04/25/24-12:10AM , 72 Reads
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — When a small number of cases of locally transmitted malaria were found in the United States last year, it was a reminder that climate change is reviving
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