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No matter how bad things got for Israel Vazquez, you couldn’t wipe the smile off his face. Although plagued later in life by serious vision problems, an MS diagnosis and the cancer that cost him his ...

The Tenth Apparition - Saturday ... Her body was exhumed thirty years later on September 22, 1909, in the presence of two doctors, several appointed officials, and nuns from the local convent.

When you envision your high school career nobody believes their chapter will include having to watch the game from the sidelines in a wheelchair ... was promising, doctors confident that walking ...

Alfie Hewett has won the Australian Open wheelchair singles title. Shi Tang/Getty Images Britain's Alfie Hewett won his 10th wheelchair Grand Slam singles title on Saturday, beating Tokito Oda in ...

My leg got infected, and maggots were coming out of it. There were no doctors to treat me." A UNICEF staff member assembles a wheelchair, part of a delivery for children in need in North Gaza.

A WOMAN who was fit, healthy and active, working out seven days a week, is now wheelchair-bound and having ... devastating turn after she went to her doctor for a urinary tract infection (UTI ...