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Central Texas survivors, local advocates raise breast cancer awareness — KCEN (Central Texas)

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Central Texas survivors, local advocates raise breast cancer awareness

Survivors say support shouldn’t stop after October, and a Temple event aims to connect residents with doctors.

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A second female lawmaker in Australia is threatened days after alleged car attack

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A man has been charged with threatening an Australian lawmaker’s staff with nunchucks, police said Thursday, days after another legislator was critically injured when a man repeatedly hit her with a car.The incidents are heightening concerns about female politicians’...

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Falling child vaccination rates raise concern as Hong Kong flu deaths rise

A senior Hong Kong health official has warned of a higher risk of influenza infection as vaccination rates fall and the city’s summer flu season stretches on, following the death of a second unvaccinated child from influenza. Centre for Health Protection controller Edwin Tsui Lok-kin issued the...

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