This week’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is the first of three the candidates will engage in before the November election. As in years past, each debate will be broadly aimed at one of three single subject areas—domestic policy, the economy and foreign policy. For the last several election cycles, a consortium of […]
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASenate Minority Leader Harry Reid criticized the U.S. government on Thursday for not doing enough to end female genital mutilation (FGM) around the world or to spread awareness of the practice within the U.S. “We as a federal government have done very little” to bring an end to the practice, Reid said during a press
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USARespectAbility, a non-partisan Jewish advocacy group for people with disabilities, sent questionnaires to candidates about issues affecting the disabled community. Here are the answers provided by Hillary Clinton. QUESTION 1: Do you have a clear and transparent process for making decisions on disability issues? For example, how do you know/learn about disability issues and make decisions
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAPHILADELPHIA — Hillary Clinton, campaigning Monday at Temple University, told college students — many of whom are drowning in debt — that she’s the candidate to address their needs. “No one will work harder to make your life better,” Clinton said, promising to give young people a say in White House decision-making. Clinton told the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAThe University of California, Berkeley has reinstated a course on the history of Palestine, just days after suspending it amid criticism that it fostered anti-Semitism and indoctrinated students against Israel. The university’s ethnic studies department has revised the original course description and syllabus, which aimed to examine Palestine through the “lens of settler colonialism,” according
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAHOUSTON – Vice President Joe Biden says he plans to dedicate his career after politics to cancer research – and to do so for “as long as I’m alive” – but ruled out serving in Hillary Clinton’s administration should she win the White House this fall. In a wide-ranging interview with STAT, Biden said he
TEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release) — A new Tel Aviv University study finds that combining genetic therapy with chemotherapy delivered to a primary tumor site is extremely effective in preventing breast cancer metastasis. The research was led by Dr. Noam Shomron of TAU’s Sackler School of Medicine in collaboration with Dr. Natalie Artzi of the Massachusetts
By Katie Turchin SAN DIEGO — September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Before our son Myer was diagnosed, the only color ribbon I knew was pink, but now I proudly wear gold in honor of Myer and all the other Warriors fighting this battle on a daily basis. Overall the Maintenance phase has been going well
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Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Travel and FoodDonald Trump said in an interview with Dr. Mehmet Oz that aired Thursday that he’s against requiring a prescription for birth control, calling it too tough of an ask for some women. “I think what we have in birth control is … when you have to get a prescription, that’s a pretty tough something to
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAIsrael’s education system spends less per student than most other Western countries, and educated Israeli women earn far less than similarly educated men, an OECD report released Thursday revealed. The 2016 Education at a Glance report found that women study more than men, but earn less. And although the amount spent is a higher proportion
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBALTIMORE — The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has received a $300 million gift from businessman and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg — coinciding with the institution’s 100th anniversary— to be used to launch an initiative it says will transform the way the country approaches public health issues. It is the largest
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAAs Hillary Clinton’s longtime physician, Lisa Bardack has stayed out of the public spotlight. She hasn’t given interviews. Her colleagues have declined to talk about her relationship with the Democratic presidential candidate. Asked by STAT if she had something nice to say about Bardack, her mother, a rabbi, hung up the phone. Bardack, in other
Mohammed Abu Ara is the face of a grave new threat, but propped up on his bed in an airy segregated hospital ward in Jordan, there’s not a hint of menace about him. With his left arm cut off above the elbow and one of his legs encased in a metal splint, he looks like
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release) —A new Tel Aviv University study published in the August 2016 issue of the Journal of School Psychology reports on a new system that creates sustainable tolerance while combating racism and prejudice. The Extended Class Exchange Program (ECEP) is geared to third- and fourth-grade Israeli Jewish and Israeli Palestinian students. The
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