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Two health centers in the Worcester public schools, at Worcester East Middle School and Norrback Avenue Elementary School, were closed for the entire school year. Four others — at Doherty Memorial High School, North High School, Burncoat Middle/High School and Worcester Technical High School — were closed for portions of the past school year.
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The apparent suicide of first-year Carleton University student Nadia Kajouji highlights one of the major challenges universities face when it comes to helping mentally ill students. The parents of 18-year-old Ms. Kajouji are blaming the school for failing to contact them about her treatment for depression, but because she was over 16, Carleton was subject [...]

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA, April 8 (Reuters) - A daughter of former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and two former health ministers were charged in court on Tuesday with embezzling around 470 million naira ($4 million) of public health funds. President Umaru Yar’Adua, who took over from Obasanjo in May after [...]

The first U.S. national study of four common sexually transmitted diseases among girls and young women has found that one in four are infected with at least one of the diseases, American health officials reported yesterday.Among those who admitted having sex, the rate was even more disturbing – 40 per cent had an STD, [...]

She and the group of mothers she helps organize have become the only bulwark, it seems, against the irrepressible spread of paco, a highly addictive, smokable cocaine residue that has destroyed thousands of lives in Argentina and caused a cycle of drug-induced street violence never seen before in this country. The scourge underscores a [...]

PROVO Residents of Spain were alerted last week to avoid consuming certain bottles of Tahitian Noni Juice while a health department there awaits toxicology reports for a man who died after drinking Noni juice.
According to reports in Spain, a 40-year-old man from Ogijares [...]