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Rocked by suicides, Palo Alto high schools want to make mental health care as normal as eating breakfast

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In February, the CDC was called in to investigate Palo Alto’s suicide crisis. Now, high schools have opened new wellness centers to try to help teens better cope.

Nurse Donna Riccardi administers a shot of Influenze virus vaccine to patient Deanna Joa at the New York Downtown Hospital in New York on January 10, 2013.

The CDC says there’s a flu epidemic raging in America

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An Ebola patient in Dallas dies amid demands for more screening in the US

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