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Success for Adelaide-led medical research
The University of Adelaide has been awarded more than $8.8 million in research grants from the Federal Government’s Medical Research Future Fund’s (MRFF) to support targeted research on new ways to address risk factors for chronic and complex diseases.
The funding includes research with a focus on leukaemia, stroke, Aboriginal maternal health, endometriosis, stem cell treatments, and a childhood bone-growth disorder.
A team led by Associate Professor Renee Turner and collaborators will use their $2,582,876 grant to work on the SPRINTS Project: Stroke – prevention of Reperfusion Injury and Neuroinflammation. The therapeutic strategy represents a novel approach to significantly improve patient outcomes following an ischaemic stroke.
The Ghosts of Comanche Crossing
In 1981 three Black teenagers drowned while in law enforcement custody during a Juneteenth gathering at Lake Mexia. Four decades later, Texas’s proudest Emancipation Day celebration still hasn’t recovered.
Lake Mexia, seen from Booker T. Washington Park, known locally as Comanche Crossing, on April 21, 2021.
Photograph by Michael Starghill
Every Juneteenth, as soon as Pamela Baker got to Booker T. Washington Park, she’d race to the merry-go-round, squeeze through the swarm of shrieking kids, grab one of the shiny rails, and hold on tight. After a few minutes, she would jump off and dart up the steps of the nearby dance hall to survey the throngs below. She and her brother Carl would weave through the crowd, looking for cousins from Dallas and Houston they hadn’t seen since the previous year. Eventually, her whole family would congregate under an oak tree their ancestors had claimed as a gathering place a century before, in the years after
Colorado woman accused of faking daughter s terminal illness faces new charges
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18th Judicial District Attorney's Office
The Douglas County Sheriffâs Office said in a news release Monday that a grand jury returned a 13-count indictment against Kelly Renee Turner (Gant), 41, for the death of her 7-year-old daughter, Olivia Gant, in August 2017.
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DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. â A Douglas County woman who is accused of faking her daughter s terminal illness, and causing her death, is facing new charges for contacting her other daughter, in violation of a protective order, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.