Articles filed under Health Crises
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Melatonin poisoning reports are up in kids, study saysJun 02, 2022 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Researchers are drawing attention to a rise in poisonings in children involving the sleep aid melatonin - including a big jump during the pandemic. Last ...
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State's first presumed monkeypox case surfaces in ChicagoJun 02, 2022 1:00 am - Illinois and Chicago health officials announced the state's first probable case of monkeypox Thursday. The male Chicagoan who contracted the virus recently traveled to E...
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WHO believes COVID getting worse, not better in North KoreaJun 01, 2022 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - A top official at the World Health Organization said the U.N. health agency assumes the coronavirus outbreak in North Korea is 'œgetting worse, not better,...
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Novel genetic experiment shrinks tough-to-treat cancerJun 01, 2022 7:00 am - In a novel experiment, a woman with advanced pancreatic cancer saw her tumors dramatically shrink after researchers in Oregon turbocharged her own immune cells, highligh...
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Africans see inequity in monkeypox response elsewhereJun 01, 2022 7:00 am - OSUN, Nigeria (AP) - As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, some doctors ac...
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Young caregivers 'exist in the shadows,' offer crucial helpMay 31, 2022 7:00 am - PLANO, Texas (AP) - Ronan Kotiya leans over his father, fingers wrapped around a plastic tube he's about to slide from a tracheostomy hole in dad's neck. 'œ3, 2, 1, go,'...
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Young caregivers 'exist in the shadows,' offer crucial helpMay 31, 2022 7:00 am - PLANO, Texas (AP) - Ronan Kotiya leans over his father, fingers wrapped around a plastic tube he's about to slide from a tracheostomy hole in dad's neck. 'œ3, 2, 1, go,'...
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WHO: Monkeypox won't turn into pandemic, but many unknownsMay 30, 2022 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The World Health Organization's top monkeypox expert said she doesn't expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but ackn...
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Study shows long-haul COVID-19 patients average 15 months with symptomsMay 28, 2022 1:00 am - A recently published study of long-haul COVID-19 patients at the Northwestern Medicine Neuro COVID-19 Clinic indicates symptoms persist an average of 15 months. The ...
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COVID-19 update: Most suburbs at high risk, hospitalizations still climbingMay 27, 2022 1:00 am - Much of the suburbs and the city of Chicago are now at high-risk COVID-19 community levels, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control a...