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It's rare for health providers to declare a person dead who is still alive, but it can be tricky with drowning victims. Their body temperature is key.

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A Tewksbury family is on a mission to find out if PFAS contamination from a former local landfill is what caused cancer and other illnesses in their community.

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As pressure builds on Australia to close sanction loopholes, a new “real and ongoing risk” that parts of the economy could be helping prop up the Kremlin’s war machine has emerged.

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“Whether patients undergo a procedure to remove plaque in the carotid artery, known as a carotid endarterectomy, stenting to insert a flexible tube to hold open the narrowed part of the artery, or a ...