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Inventors hope playground-friendly vaccination game will go viral
A young Melbourne doctor and his best mate wanted to find a way to get kids to learn about the value of vaccination. The solution: target the kids, not the parents. Make vaccination not just herd-immunity-cool, but playground-cool.
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Moving photo of a little girl's last eyelash as she battles cancer
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Teenager elected homecoming king four days after dying of cancer
Just four days after his death, Nick Peters became the homecoming king of his high school in a landslide victory. The 17-year-old had fought a seven-year battle with leukemia, and his classmates at Harlingen High School in Texas wanted to show his family what he had meant to them.
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