Need those back to school shots?

Chandler Regional and Mercy Gilbert medical centers’ Community Outreach Immunization Program, in collaboration with Arizona’s Vaccine for Children Program, will sponsor free immunization clinics for children, as well as low-cost immunizations for adults, several times in the next few weeks.

Forty years after Richard Nixon and America declared war on cancer, the numbers stood out in Anna Barker’s presentation last Friday at the East Valley Health Care Summit in Gilbert.

Years ago, Mary and David Krausman met in German class in high school. Now, a few decades later, the couple travelled to Germany, not as a romantic homage to their school days, but for David to receive an alternative form of cancer therapy not approved in the United States.

Years ago, Mary and David Krausman met in German class in high school. Now, a few decades later, the couple travelled to Germany, not as a romantic homage to their school days, but for David to receive an alternative form of cancer therapy not approved in the United States.

Call it immunological kismet.

A free immunization clinic for the 2011-2012 school year will be 4-7 p.m. July 26 at the Gilbert Unified School District's community education building, 6389 E. Guadalupe Road, Mesa. The clinic will be put on by Chandler Regional Medical Center in cooperation with Gilbert Fire Department. The clinic is only open to children attending school. Families should bring immunization records.

A car accident 20 years ago set Adrienne Azurdia on the path toward medical school, though she was only 3 years old at the time. Her father was paralyzed in the accident, and his resulting health problems over the years gave her an exposure to medicine and a desire to help.

Leadership class graduates Friday

To halt the spread of AIDS, an Arizona State University virologist argues that researchers must turn to the last virus that science eradicated: Smallpox.

ATLANTA - Federal scientists say they will consider requests to ship the recently recreated 1918 killer flu virus to select U.S. research labs.

NEW YORK - Stephen Colbert's right. He's always right - however much logic and common sense say otherwise. And those who disagree with him are wrong. It's that simple (and funny), as viewers know from Colbert's hilarious commentaries since 1997 as senior correspondent on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."

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When Scott Phelps visits his mother, she calls him Bobby. Pauline Phelps gives her son a hug, sits on the couch next to him and forgets he’s there. The 84-year-old prefers to talk to her brother, Paul, or Aunt Shorty, both of whom died decades ago.

Ah, smell the orange blossoms hanging in the air like a lovely swath of heaven.