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A pharmacist holds a bottle of the antibiotic doxycycline hyclate in Sacramento, Calif., July 8, 2016. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, that it plans to endorse the antibiotic as a post-sex morning after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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US health officials propose using a cheap antibiotic as a 'morning-after pill' against STDs
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Mon,10/02/23-8:13AM , 577 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases.
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Chloe Isom, left, with Rashaad Woods and Denzel Grant, right, of Turn Up Knox stand along Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Knoxville, Tennessee. Isom lost two sons to gun violence in 2022. Her son Jabari, 16, was shot to death last September, and her son Stephen, 20, was killed two weeks later. (By The Associated Press

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Knoxville turns to science to curb gun crime
By MIKE STOBBE - Associated Press
Fri,08/25/23-2:00AM , 1087 Reads
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — “That’s where I got shot,” said Rashaad Woods, nodding toward a convenience store in Knoxville’s “gun zone.” There were bullet holes in a church’s walls. Nearby was a shuttered nightclub where some people were killed.
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A child runs across the street in the Five Points neighborhood Friday, Aug. 4, 2023 in Knoxville, Tenn. The city saw a spike in gun deaths in 2020 and 2021, with a gun homicide rate that at one point in 2021 rivaled Chicago's. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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As research grows into how to stop gun violence, one city looks to science for help
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Thu,08/24/23-9:23AM , 388 Reads
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — “That’s where I got shot,” said Rashaad Woods, nodding toward a convenience store in Knoxville’s “gun zone.” There were bullet holes in a church’s walls. Nearby was a shuttered nightclub where some people were killed.
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In this Nov. 20, 2015 file photo, a man walks along a trail during sunset near Manhattan, Kan. In 2022, about 49,500 people took their own lives in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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US suicides hit an all-time high last year
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Thu,08/10/23-1:09PM , 304 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.
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