By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM (TNA) — An IDF doctor’s life-saving actions averted a tragedy which may have struck a Palestinian family. On Friday night, in the Palestinian village of Beitin near Ramallah, a month-old baby Palestinian baby started to choke in her home while playing with her sister. The mother brought the baby to an […]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationSACRAMENTO (Press Release) — A bill aimed at closing California’s job skills gap by allowing community colleges to offer four-year degrees, where a local workforce need can be documented, was approved Thursday in the Senate Education Committee on an 8-0 bipartisan vote. Senator Marty Block (SD-39), who authored the legislation – SB 850 – described his measure
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USASACRAMENTO. California (Press Release) – On the heels of a Field Poll showing large majorities of registered California voters supporting universal preschool for all four-year old children, a new poll released Thursday, April 24, by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) reflects similar public sentiment, as the Senate Democratic caucus presses early childhood education as a
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Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release)– U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) responded Thursday, April 24, to the announcement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it is moving to expand its authority to regulate tobacco products to include electronic cigarettes. The rule proposed by the FDA would allow the agency to regulate e-cigarettes, which are not currently under
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BEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — A team of researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), UC Berkeley and Charité-Universitätsmedizin in Berlin, Germany, have determined that the blood-pressure drug losartan may also prevent cases of epilepsy that result from severe head trauma. According to a new paper published in the Annals of Neurology, the researchers found that
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationNEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed disappointment that the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-2 decision on Tuesday, April 22, in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, has the effect of preventing public colleges and universities in Michigan from considering race as one non-determinative factor in a holistic review of applicants.
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By J.J. Surbeck SAN DIEGO — After much finagling, the Student for Justice in Palestine had managed on Wednesday, April 23, to bring in front of the Associated Student (AS) Council an anti-Israel resolution targeting the usual US companies “supporting Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians, and … bla-bla-bla.” One can admire the anti-Israel groups for
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By Donald H. Harrison EL CAJON, California – With a steady drumbeat on the buzzer and an apparent photographic memory for every little fact in Siddhartha Mukherjee’s book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, James Dohleman led his UCSD team to a runaway victory in a three-way contest against Pt. Loma Nazarene
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Each month, hundreds of thousands of Breast Cancer Research Stamps are sold across the country, with each stamp contributing to the fight against this deadly disease. In March 2014, 999,000 stamps were sold, raising more than $110,000 for research efforts. Since the first stamp was issued on July 29, 1998, more than
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The following essay was written by Jessica Cohen, a high school student participating in a U.S.-Israel Social Entrepreneurship Program cosponsored by the Rady School of Business at UCSD and the Consulate General of Israel in Los Angeles. Between the period of April 13 and June 1, Cohen and other students in the program will attend five
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TEL AVIV (Press Release)— People diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, most in their mid-thirties and forties, face a devastating prognosis: complete mental, physical, and behavioral decline within two decades. “Mutant” protein clusters, long blamed for the progression of the genetic disease, have been the primary focus of therapies in development by pharmaceutical companies. But according to
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By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM – The Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) has made an extraordinary archaeological finding: it has uncovered a Second Temple Era iron chisel, which may have served the builders of the Second Temple. Archaeologist Eli Shukrun, who heads the dig at the bottom of the Temple Mount near the Western Wall, stated that
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SACRAMENTO, California (Press Release) – A new Field Poll reveals that ninety-one percent of registered Latino voters in California believe it is either somewhat or very important to make publicly-supported preschool available to all four-year old children. Seventy-five percent of registered Latino voters feel that the projected cost of implementing universal preschool in California is worth the
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have called on the Department of Agriculture to develop food safety standards that will significantly reduce the levels of Salmonella and Campylobacter in chicken and turkey products. “We write to urge you to develop strong performance standards for poultry products that will
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