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University protests over Israel-Hamas war in Gaza lead to hundreds of arrests on college campuses

Police broke up a demonstration againstIsrael’s war against Hamas in Gazaon Thursday at Emory University in Atlanta, the latest flashpoint in a growing movement on college campuses around the country. Hundreds of people have been arrested in California, Massachusetts, Texas and other states during the tense protests, following several rounds of arrests in New York in recent days. Several dozen …

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Doctors perform first-ever combined heart pump and pig kidney transplant

For the first time, surgeons at NYU Langone Health performed a combined mechanical heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant, helping a 54-year-old woman with heart and kidney failure. Before the two procedures, which took place earlier this month, New Jersey native Lisa Pisano faced heart failure and end-stage kidney disease that required routine dialysis, and she was not a …

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