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Incredible Hampton tattoo artist Heide Turino camouflages scars -- cigarette burns on an abused child and the slashes on a self-harm cutter's arm -- and adds confidence to mastectomy patients, people disfigured by injuries, accidents and burn victims.

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The bubonic plague pandemic of the 14th century gained infamy as much for its death toll — 25 million in Europe alone — as for the horror of the disease itself. Scientists have long blamed rat-transmitted fleas for the plague’s swift spread. But recent research points the finger at an additi…

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Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S., and it takes only one blistering sunburn during childhood or adolescence to nearly double a person's chance of developing melanoma later in life, according to the American Academy of Dermatology Association. Since babies are much more prone …

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Edgard Camarós and his team were looking at a screen connected to a powerful camera aimed at an Egyptian skull from about 4,500 years ago. What they saw changed the previously understood timeline of when humans may have tried to treat cancer.

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A 36-year-old Massachusetts man died after walking into traffic and getting hit by a tractor-trailer on the Maine Turnpike in Kittery, Maine early Saturday, according to police.

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Apex, the world’s largest stegosaurus skeleton ever found, is set to go on auction at Sotheby’s this summer with an estimated value of up to $6 million — a listing that has sparked both public intrigue and concern from some scientists who say selling rare fossils at steep prices can stifle r…

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Bruhat Soma was just 7 years old when his parents began to notice that he had an unusual knack for memorizing things — words, numbers, entire Sanskrit verses known as slokas found in the Bhagavad Gita.

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WASHINGTON — Ten percent of Republican registered voters say they are less likely to vote for Donald Trump following his felony conviction for falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Friday.

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TWO NEW indoor bouldering and rock climbing gyms on the Seacoast allow customers to reach new heights.

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WITH A SHORTAGE of workers, the Red Arrow Diner had to scale back its 24/7 model for the past few years at three of its locations: Concord, Londonderry and Nashua.

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As we write this, Gov. Chris Sununu hasn’t indicated if he will approve several bills passed by the Legislature to protect children from so-called sex “reassignment” surgery, to ensure that girls on girls sport teams don’t have to compete with boys who wish to be girls, and to provide that public bathrooms and prisons be segregated by biological sex. Without question or qualm, he should sign them.

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