A-Rod homers; awaits likely drug penalty from MLB

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For instance: Will there be different treatment for minor leaguers depending whether they are on 40-man rosters. Under the drug rules, 40-man roster players serving a 50-game suspension would have major league games in September count as time served …
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Life and Death in Assisted Living Single

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Joan Boice needed help. Lots of it. Her physician had tallied the damage: Alzheimer's disease, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, pain from a compression fracture of the spine. For Joan, an 81-year-old former schoolteacher, simply getting from her …
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Newly born and withdrawing from drugs: As number of Maine babies exposed to …

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In his first days of life, the infant unwittingly craved the methadone his mother began taking during her pregnancy to help her kick an addiction to prescription painkillers. Doctors administered tiny amounts of methadone, a synthetic drug that blocks …
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