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Emma Routh died at 3 months from hypoplastic left heart syndrome. She received blood transfusions during an open heart surgery. She would have been 3 on April 15. The blood drive will be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the party room at Bounce-U, 8922 S. Memorial Drive. Children of donors will be allowed free play time at the facility, and adult donors will receive a 10 percent discount on any party booked there within a year. Donors may also choose to forego their appreciation gift, allowing the blood institute to give the gift’s monetary value to The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. For more information about the drive, call 918-282-6547. Get more…

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Bay Area researchers may be on the trail of compounds that can fight a fatal disease. Their discovery is the result of a high-speed collaboration between three different labs.

At UCSF’s Small Molecule Discovery Center, researchers are always hoping to hit it big. In this case, the challenge is a rare and mysterious class of diseases, caused by misshapen proteins called prions.

“There’s a not treatment for prion diseases currently and I think the reason is that it’s the most recent of the diseases that’s been discovered in the last couple of decades, so it’s really uncharted territory,” said Adam Renslo, Ph.D. from UCSF.

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The former CNN talkshow host is returning to his Brooklyn roots with his stake in a New York-style bagel shop in Beverly HillsSince giving up his over-sized desk, microphone and braces after an incredible 25-year run, the retired CNN talkshow host Larry King now spends his mornings hanging out at a bagel cafe in an upmarket area of Los Angeles.Every morning, the sprightly 77-year-old broadcaster and his friends occupy a corner booth – which sometimes boasts a decorative microphone in his honour – while his driver waits patiently outside in his limo.King recently become a shareholder in The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co, and as he now owns 50% of its fifth franchise in Beverly Hills – bringing a slice of his birthplace, Brooklyn, to California – it literally pays him to eat and be seen here.”I said to myself, someday if I could have a beautiful, tall wife and my own bagel shop, life would be complete,” laughs King. “I coul Get more…

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A 4-year-old autistic boy undergoing intensive therapy.

When Zachary Henderson pitches a fit, strangers see bad behavior.

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Tulsa came in as the 26th “most challenging place to live with spring allergies,” worse than last year’s rank of 33rd. Oklahoma City was ranked 22nd this year. Several factors have made this season particularly tough for allergy sufferers in the Tulsa area, said Dr. Christopher Gifford, an allergist at the Warren Clinic. “It has been a highly symptomatic allergy season as far as history is concerned,” he said. According to the foundation, Tulsa has a worse-than-average pollen count but is average in the amount of people taking allergy medicine and the number of allergists per capita. That gives the city an overall classification as worse than average. Get more…

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