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1 week ago | 
psychiatrist.com | Sejal Parekh
Joseph T. Norris Jr., 75, looks just as sharp in his U.S. Air Force uniform today as he did 40 years ago. He’s a fighter, surviving testicular cancer and the chronic pain that followed. At age 35, Norris underwent surgery and radiation for his testicular cancer. Soon after, the pain crept up in his hip. It spread slowly, but surely. Eventually, pain racked the lower half of his body constantly. He met with a variety of doctors before he found adequate relief.
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1 week ago | 
snexplores.org | Sejal Parekh
asthma: A disease affecting the body’s airways, which are the tubes through which animals breathe. Asthma obstructs these airways through swelling, the production of too much mucus or a tightening of the tubes. As a result, the body can expand to breathe in air, but loses the ability to exhale appropriately. The most common cause of asthma is an allergy. Asthma is a leading cause of hospitalization and the top chronic disease responsible for kids missing school.
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1 week ago | 
snexplores.org | Sejal Parekh
Health & Medicine This chronic narrowing of lung airways can make it hard to breathe. Fortunately, drugs can widen those airways — even in people with severe asthma symptoms. 11 seconds ago
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1 month ago | 
abcnews.go.com | Sejal Parekh
In 2022, more than 13,000 people died from ovarian cancer, according to the CDC. A common blood test for ovarian cancer is more likely to fall short for Black and Native American women, according to a new study. This was the case for Nefa-Tari Moore, 45, a three time "thriver" of gynecological cancer. The blood test for CA-125, a commonly used marker for ovarian cancer, was never elevated for her, even when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 38.
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1 month ago | 
calonews.com | Sejal Parekh
A stabbing was reported at Franklin High School in Los Angeles on the morning of January 29, 2025. As police vehicles swarmed the school, students at neighboring Academia Avance charter school panicked. “When they see police, and when they hear helicopters, it is immediately seen as, or thought of as immigration,” says St Claire Adriaan, Community Schools Coordinator at Academia Avance, where 93% of students are Latino, many of them from mixed status families with undocumented relatives.
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1 month ago | 
ethnicmediaservices.org | Sejal Parekh
A stabbing was reported at Franklin High School in Los Angeles on the morning of January 29, 2025. As police vehicles swarmed the school, students at neighboring Academia Avance charter school panicked. “When they see police, and when they hear helicopters, it is immediately seen as, or thought of as immigration,” says St Claire Adriaan, Community Schools Coordinator at Academia Avance, where 93% of students are Latino, many of them from mixed status families with undocumented relatives.
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1 month ago | 
ethnicmediaservices.org | Sejal Parekh
A stabbing was reported at Franklin High School in Los Angeles on the morning of January 29, 2025. As police vehicles swarmed the school, students at neighboring Academia Avance charter school panicked. “When they see police, and when they hear helicopters, it is immediately seen as, or thought of as immigration,” says St Claire Adriaan, Community Schools Coordinator at Academia Avance, where 93% of students are Latino, many of them from mixed status families with undocumented relatives.
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2 months ago | 
lapost.us | Sejal Parekh
A stabbing was reported at Franklin High School in Los Angeles on the morning of January 29, 2025. As police vehicles swarmed the school, students at neighboring Academia Avance charter school panicked. “When they see police, and when they hear helicopters, it is immediately seen as, or thought of as immigration,” says St Claire Adriaan, Community Schools Coordinator at Academia Avance, where 93% of students are Latino, many of them from mixed status families with undocumented relatives.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
abcnews.go.com | Sejal Parekh |Sara Avery
"The system is really getting in the way," said a pediatric pulmonologist. ByDr. Sejal Parekh and Sara AveryOctober 29, 2024, 5:07 PMAfter many trips to the doctor's office, five-year-old Burton Hayes's asthma was finally under control with a medication named Flovent. Then his mother, Alia Hayes, got some bad news. The manufacturer, GSK, was going to stop manufacturing the brand-name medication in 2024. An asthmatic herself, Hayes understood the importance of being on the right medication.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
wsbradio.com | Sejal Parekh
ASHEVILLE, NC — More than three weeks ago, Hurricane Helene knocked out the power and running water at James Greene's nursing home in Asheville, North Carolina. Today, Greene, 84, and his fellow residents at Brooks-Howell Home still do not have regular access to safe, running water for their daily activities. "For two weeks we've been unable to shower or wash hands," Greene wrote in a letter to family and friends, which was shared with ABC News.
