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WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama's Kenyan stepgrandmother will be among the millions of people in Washington for the Inauguration. Sarah Obama, the stepmother of Obama's Kenyan-born father, will join representatives from the Kenyan ...

Answer: Take a look at whether your son has one of the 50 impairments — 25 rare diseases and 25 cancers — on the list at www. socialsecurity.gov/compassionateallowances. If your son has one of those impairments, it may allow his application to be ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sequella, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on diseases of epidemic potential, announced today that SQ109, its lead drug candidate for the treatment of tuberculosis (TB), was ...

It is a mark of golf’s long-established role as a perfectly adequate substitute for life that, like life, it comes fully armed with its own set of major illnesses. While other major sports have mere injuries, it has enough fully fledged diseases to ...