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Texas community rallies around local cop’s ailing 2-week-old daughter
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In a new study, states with more comprehensive sex education programs had lower teen birth rates—but the effect seemed to…
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On the verge of dying from leukemia, a 7-year-old girl has been cured by personalized gene therapy, Philly.com reported. The…
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