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1 week ago | 
localnewsmatters.org | Sejal Parekh
ROZITA POLICE WORRIES if her Palo Alto-based cosmetology business will be able to weather the tariffs proposed by President Donald Trump. Police, 51, has worked in the beauty industry since 2008, and has owned her business since 2011. She is an expert threader, hair stylist, and waxer. An industry veteran, Police said this is a particularly hard time for estheticians and cosmetologists. With rising supply costs and lower demand from customers, Police is feeling the squeeze.
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2 weeks ago | 
sfgate.com | Sejal Parekh
Police has already noticed an increase in the prices of her supplies, compared to their costs two months ago. For example, Police said that hair dye from the German company Schwarzkopf was $7.52 two months ago. Today it is $10.12. She gave several other examples from American and foreign brands alike. It is difficult to say whether these price increases are due solely to Trump's tariffs, or a confluence of factors including rising materials costs.
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1 month 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 month 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 month 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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2 months 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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2 months 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 | 
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.
