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Regeneron also gained Food and Drug Administration approval on April 23 for its gene therapy, Otarmeni, which will be prescribed to treat a rare type of hearing loss that afflicts about 50 newborns in the United States each year.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2026 -
The team at Kittens In The Mitten immediately began working to stabilize the fragile newborn.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2026
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The virus primarily affects infants and young children, but there have also been outbreaks in elderly populations, such as nursing homes.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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According to the report, rent, daycare for infants, and transportation are among the highest costs.—
JT Moodee Lockman,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2026
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Although local officials routinely feed the monkeys at the Mediterranean destination seeds, fruits, and vegetables, visitors to the area are known to offer the monkeys snack foods, including chips, candy, and even ice cream.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
23 Apr. 2026
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The dirt eating was widespread, with males and females from different groups of monkeys partaking during multiple times of the year, and was generally associated with areas where there were more tourists.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
22 Apr. 2026
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Of all the former rascals, Symoné has enjoyed the longest and most successful career in entertainment.—
Andrew Walsh,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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In the years since 2004’s Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Penn’s carved out a niche embodying big-talking, attention-grabbing rascals who say inappropriate things, then shrug their way through the consequences.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2026
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Cala Gaetano is the most breathtaking of all, both in awe and anxiety, where slippery steps without any barriers bring you to a secluded cove speckled with urchins.—
Kristina Kasparian,
Travel + Leisure,
15 Mar. 2026
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Even toddlers can get in on the action, and this is one project where getting dirty is part of the fun.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
28 Apr. 2026
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But at Disneyland on Friday, vacationers in matching T-shirts, toddlers in princess dresses and mouse-eared parents pushing strollers made their way through security checkpoints giving little attention to signs posted nearby notifying guests of the theme park’s new facial recognition policy.—
Hannah Fry,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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More, the coaches of the last three title-winning teams (Florida’s Todd Golden and Hurley) all come from the current crop of whippersnappers, as do the leaders of each 1-seed in this tourney.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2026
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Mills gives off the disarming sense of a secure soul undeterred by whippersnappers who toss around fancy words such as gerontocracy.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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For studies measuring neonates’ looking time at faces, this included 667 infants, half of them boys and half of them girls.—
Lise Eliot,
The Conversation,
20 Apr. 2026
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Among these studies, 12 post-approval studies included 3,646 neonates, newborns, infants and children.—
Dr. Jade Cobern,
ABC News,
18 Sep. 2025
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