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Gap in Breast Cancer Survival for Black, White Patients Shrinks, But Not by Enough

By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 2, 2021 — Racial disparities in breast cancer survival have narrowed in recent years, but Black women with the disease still have double the death rate of white women. That’s according to a study that tracked breast cancer trends in Florida between 1990 and 2015. Overall, deaths from… Read More »

Fauci says he hasn’t seen intelligence on sick Wuhan lab workers

Dr. Anthony Fauci says he has not reviewed any U.S. intelligence on lab workers who allegedly got sick at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in autumn 2019, while he also continues to deny that the National Institutes of Health approved funding for gain-of-function research at the lab. Rep. Mike Gallagher, a Wisconsin Republican, asked Fauci… Read More »

Symphonia vineyard’s unconventional showcase

THIRTY years ago Melbourne businessman Peter Read and his family planted the Symphonia vineyard at Myrrhee in north-east Victoria’s cool-climate upper King Valley to a gallimaufry of rare grape varieties. There were saperavi, the red grape much-planted in Georgia, Russia, Moldova and Ukraine, petit manseng, native to the Pyrenees region of France, pinot grigio from… Read More »