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                    [Title] => Getting carried away
                    [Summary] => “Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #coronavirus,” but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!”
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                    [Title] => Surgeon general adds to list of smoking's harms
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It's no secret that smoking causes lung cancer. But what about diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction? Fifty years into the war on smoking, scientists still are adding diseases to the long list of cigarettes' harms — even as the government struggles to get more people to kick the habit.

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As parents and concerned citizens, we worry about our children’s exposure to pollutants.

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What are the medical consequences of drug addiction?

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Australian Embassy Defence Attaché Capt. Vic Jones, RAN (center) hands over to Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Surgeon General BGen. Joselito Castro (left) and Philippine Army Chief Surgeon Col. Commie Pagunuran one of six ‘Thomas’ Aero-Medical Packs at AFP Headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo.

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This week, some artists from UP (my alma mater, by the way) trying to drum up support for a local tv personality in yet another one of those bothersome reality shows took off their clothes as a sign of solidarity with that tv personality. They did this, I am told, in an artist's hang out, with much publicity, and of course, loads of fun.
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[DatePublished] => 2004-06-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [DatePublished] => 2020-03-02 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco
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It's no secret that smoking causes lung cancer. But what about diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction? Fifty years into the war on smoking, scientists still are adding diseases to the long list of cigarettes' harms — even as the government struggles to get more people to kick the habit.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-17 17:11:02 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1448032 [AuthorName] => Lauran Neergaard [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/320x240q90/89/z7k0.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 949641 [Title] => EARLYSTART: No to Noise! [Summary] =>

As parents and concerned citizens, we worry about our children’s exposure to pollutants.

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What are the medical consequences of drug addiction?

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Australian Embassy Defence Attaché Capt. Vic Jones, RAN (center) hands over to Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Surgeon General BGen. Joselito Castro (left) and Philippine Army Chief Surgeon Col. Commie Pagunuran one of six ‘Thomas’ Aero-Medical Packs at AFP Headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo.

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This week, some artists from UP (my alma mater, by the way) trying to drum up support for a local tv personality in yet another one of those bothersome reality shows took off their clothes as a sign of solidarity with that tv personality. They did this, I am told, in an artist's hang out, with much publicity, and of course, loads of fun.
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