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Under 50 and Living With Colorectal Cancer, Two Mass. Patients Strive To Help Others

In July 2022, Tracy O’Rourke of Worcester was diagnosed with rectal cancer after a routine colonoscopy screen, despite having no symptoms or family history. She was 47.

There’s been a lot of attention to the increased incidence of colorectal cancer in patients under age 50 — People are diagnosed in their 40s, in their 30s, and then even in their 20s.

Justin Maykel, MD | Chief of Colon and Rectal Surgery, UMass Memorial Medical Center
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What Parents Should Know About Kids and Caffeine Pouches

Dr. Zachary Binder, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts, told ABC News caffeine gets absorbed much more quickly through a pouch than when consumed through a beverage such as coffee or tea.

It's not necessarily the amount of caffeine, it's how quickly it's entering your system and how high the level gets.

Zachary Binder, MD | Pediatric Emergency Medicine
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She Hated Her Fifth-Grade Teacher. Decades Later, an Unexpected Reunion Unfolded at the Edge of Life and Death.

This is the story of an earnest English teacher and the precocious 10-year-old who hated him. It’s about how that girl grew up to pull off several lifetimes’ worth of death-defying feats. And how, a few weeks ago, she performed the most spectacular one of all.

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