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Mumbai's Pigeon Feeding Ban Sparks Religious, Health, Political Clash

Visitors to Mumbai feed pigeons near the Gate of India. The city's residents are sharply divided: There's the pro-pigeon feeding contingent and the anti-pigeon feeding contingent. The latter group were heartened by a government ban in July on feeding pigeons at designated spots in the city.

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ACIP Narrows Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccine Guidance

In a historic vote, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisers recommended narrowing the agency's hepatitis B immunization

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CDC Advisers Reassess Childhood Vaccine Schedule

Powerful federal advisers this week are expected to make a controversial change to how babies are immunized against hepatitis B, and to question how pediatricians inoculate children against more than a dozen other infectious