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Shahriar Koochekpour, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, led research that has discovered, for the first time, a genetic mutation in African-American men with a family history of prostate cancer who are at increased risk for the disease.

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Genetic mutation in African-American men with family history of prostate cancer discovered (News-Medical-Net)

This is in stark contrast to the 13 million Californians who were vaccinated for H1N1 and only three people died (and those deaths were due to other health-related c auses)….

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What Do You Think About the Flu?

WASHINGTON — Eleven days after her son Benjamin’s birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a blood clot.

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U.S. suffering sharp increase in pregnancy-related deaths (Newark Advocate)

Competing with Maryland and the District of Columbia to lure the corporate headquarters from California, McDonnell proposed legislation Friday that would increase money for Virginia’s economic development incentive grants to $30 million over five years, or $6 million in one year. The current economic development grants also total $30 million, but they have been used up, the House Appropriations …

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General Assembly Briefs for March 9 (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

A public health nurse prepares a dose of H1N1 vaccine at the Balboa Park Community Centre in Encino, California in this October 23, 2009 file photo.

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H1N1 Seen Lying Low, Then Rising Again In Europe (Bernama)

As of March 3, the District of Columbia is now the sixth locale where gay couples can “tie the knot.” Already there’s been analysis of how this will affect gay marriage in California and on the national level.

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Clearing the Air (The Vanguard)

Google is launching its Google Public Data Explorer, which allows users to view and create charts based on a wide variety of public data such as mortality and fertility rates, through its experimental Google Labs annex.

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Google Launches Google Public Data Explorer, Supersizes Statistics (eWeek)

A couple of weeks before Christmas, Zack Irwin got what seemed like a normal head cold. When he got worse and couldn’t breathe, he went to Lodi Urgent Care, where he was given antibiotics for pneumonia.

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Surviving H1N1 (Lodi News-Sentinel)

A couple of weeks before Christmas, Zack Irwin got what seemed like a normal head cold. When he got worse and couldn’t breathe, he went to Lodi Urgent Care, where he was given antibiotics for pneumonia.

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Even doctors weren’t sure he would make it: For five weeks, Zack Irwin was fighting to live (Lodi News-Sentinel)

Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have advanced to the finals of the Obama Administration’s $4.35 billion “Race to the Top” stimulus funding competition –but California is not among them.

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California misses out on Race to the Top funding for schools (Contra Costa Times)