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HUNTINGTON — A shared roadway is the way of the future to reduce traffic fatalities among pedestrians, bicyclists and people in a vehicle, experts said during a symposium at Marshall

HUNTINGTON — Marshall University’s Society of Yeager Scholars’ spring symposium Thursday will feature a discussion on campus infrastructure and safety.

TAM is fast approaching, which means one thing (at least this year). I need to get my Plexiglass blinky posterior in gear in order to have my talks together in time. I spent part of yesterday doing that, but, unfortunately, I have to work today in order to help to make up for the clinic I'll be missing next week; so you'll forgive me if this post might look familiar to a subset of you who know where you might have seen some of this discussion before elsewhere. Those of you who haven&#0...

Dive Brief: The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday restricted the use of Intercept Pharmaceuticals liver disease drug Ocaliva after an investigation linked it to severe injuries including liver failure in certain patients. In most cases, the benefits of Ocaliva outweigh the risks for patients with primary biliary cholangitis, the FDA said. But the agency announced Wednesday that doctors should not prescribe the medicine for patients with advanced cirrhosis, or permanent scarring. The new...

April 13, 2021 You are here: Home / Policy / Health / Palliative care: how understanding terminal pain and suffering guarantees the dignity of human rights Palliative care: how understanding terminal pain and suffering guarantees the dignity of human rights (Credit: Unsplash) This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Ms. Isabella Arantes Tobbin and Naiany Olivotto Martins, two second year medical students at Universidade Paranaense (UNIPAR) – Brazil. They are affiliate...

Courtesy of Dougherty / Keystone Crossroads The news that Pennsylvania had screwed up the process for putting a constitutional amendment before voters that would allow victims of decades-old sexual abuse to sue hit Jay Sefton hard. He had let himself hope that things were finally about to change. “[It] was a real dark wave that came over,” said Sefton, now a therapist in Massachusetts, who says he was abused by a priest in Havertown in 1985. When the Pennsylvania Department of State ...

WHYY By Shaun Dougherty lobbying for changes to the statute of limitations in Harrisburg in 2019. (Courtesy of Dougherty) The news that Pennsylvania had screwed up the process for putting a constitutional amendment before voters that would allow victims of decades-old sexual abuse to sue hit Jay Sefton hard. He had let himself hope that things were finally about to change. “[It] was a real dark wave that came over,” said Sefton, now a therapist in Massachusetts, who says he was abused by a ...