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January 13, 2003
Simon Abrahms Joins Saint Louis University Hospital
Tenet Saint Louis has announced the appointment of Simon Abrahms as chief business development officer for Saint Louis University Hospital, 3635 Vista Avenue at Grand. He reports to Crystal L. Haynes, chief executive officer of Saint Louis University...

January 28, 2002
SLU Hospital Helps Meet Increasing Demand for Screening Colonoscopy
Katie Couric, co-host of the Today Show, helped raise awareness of the importance of screening colonoscopy by undergoing one on the air. Behind the scenes, Couric, whose husband died of colon cancer, and other activists accomplished even more by succ...

Puppy Power!
One of the volunteers at the hospital has big brown eyes and a great big heart for people. His very presence makes people smile, and he is known for being able to coax a response from patients who were previously non-communicative. He is Maverick--...

SLU Hospital ranked among Top 50 by Modern Maturity
Saint Louis University Hospital - along with our SLUCare physician partners - is the only local hospital to be named among the Top 50 Hospitals in the United States by AARP's Modern Maturity magazine in its May/June 2002 issue. SLU Hospital also was ...

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US High School Smoking Rate Drops To Record Low-CDC
ATLANTA --Smoking among high school students has dropped to its lowest level in more than a decade as fewer students say they've tried the habit, the U.S. government said Thursday. Nearly 22% of U.S.

Further reading/ Mostly they died/ Ebola devastates whole villages - but we don't know where it
Chief Bob Lucien sits on a high wooden chair in his unfurnished house and talks quietly of the day 10 years ago when one of the most virulent diseases in the world came to his remote village.

China to build first orphanage for children of AIDS patients
Beijing, Jun 16 China plans to build its first orphanage for those whose parents died from AIDS in Shangcai county in central China's Henan province, one of the worst-hit regions in the world's most populous nation.

African Americans, Latinos Continue to Face High HIV Risk - All Risk Groups Urged to Get Tested at
WASHINGTON, June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- More than half of all Americans diagnosed with HIV each year are African American, and almost 13 percent are Latino.

Fed/ No compensation for Hep C patients
CANBERRA, June 17 AAP - Patients who contracted Hepatitis C through blood transfusions today called for a royal commission after a Senate report failed to recommend compensation for thousands of victims.


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