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9th American tourist dies while vacationing in Dominican Republic
A New Jersey man's family said he was found dead in his hotel room at a Dominican Republic resort last week, the latest in a string of mysterious tourist deaths in the country.
Meet the ‘cemetery angel’: Ruth Coker Burks provided end-of-life care to over 1,000 AIDS patients
Ruth Coker Burks, 60, is known as the “cemetery angel.” She provided end-of-life care to over 1,000 AIDS patients over a 30-year period, beginning at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. Now, she is stepping out of the shadows to educate the current generation of LGBTQ about a time period they know little about.
'Be kinder to yourself': Study reveals top advice people would give their younger selves
Researchers asked hundreds of people what advice they'd give to their younger selves and it turns out we think about this a lot.
Finding the value of being a ‘good-ish’ person
Dolly Chugh, an award-winning social psychologist and author of “The Person You Mean to Be,” joins the fourth hour of TODAY with advice encouraging us all to stop striving to be “good” people and just work on being “good-ish” versions of ourselves.
Third brand of flour recalled over potential E. coli contamination
Three people have already been hospitalized in the multi-state outbreak of E. coli infections.
Dozens of Jimmy Buffett fans say they fell violently ill in Dominican Republic
A group of "parrotheads" say they got extremely sick during an April trip to the Dominican Republic, where at least six American tourists have died this year.
Magician spends years trying to solve his medical mystery
Mentalist and magician Max Major is an expert at perception and making things disappear. But for most of his adult life, he hadn’t felt 100%. Joined by Dr. Natalie Azar on the 3rd hour of TODAY, he shares his medical mystery and road to a diagnosis.