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Gastroparesis: A misunderstood, troublesome stomach ailment
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Gastroparesis: A misunderstood, troublesome stomach ailment

  • CHELSEY MCINTYRE
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For this awareness month, I’d like to go back to the basics of awareness. Forget about the commercials, the fundraising, the treatments. I simply want to introduce you to a condition that often goes undiagnosed for many years, despite its debilitating and life-altering symptoms — a condition that remains undiscussed and unmentioned, despite the over 5 million Americans that have it: gastroparesis.

India is polio-free after 3 years with no new case
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India is polio-free after 3 years with no new case

  • MANIK BANERJEE, Associated Press
  • Updated

SHAHPARA, India— The scourge of polio ends in India with a lively 4-year-old girl, Rukhsar Khatoon, who became ill as a baby after her parents forgot to get her vaccinated. Her barely perceptible limp the only lingering sign of the disease, Rukhsar was the last person to contract polio in the nation of 1.2 billion people.