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Kansas City woman’s kidney donation triggers series of transplants that save four lives 

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When Alli Shappell learned that her childhood pastor was in kidney failure and in need of a transplant, she immediately offered to donate. The 21-year-old nursing student was tested and, unfortunately, wasn’t a match, but she was determined to help the minister get a kidney. That’s when doctors at The University of Kansans Health System … Read more

Racism is TOXIC to the body ‘because it triggers inflammation’

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Racism is TOXIC to the victim: African Americans who suffer abuse because of their skin colour ‘show higher levels of inflammation which could lead to cancer, heart disease or dementia’ Researchers at the University of Southern California studied 71 people Among African Americans signs of inflammation were 63 per cent higher More than 50 per … Read more