Articles filed under Health Crises
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Two West Nile virus cases confirmed in Lake CountySep 15, 2015 1:00 am - Two human cases of West Nile virus have been confirmed in Lake County, health officials announced Tuesday. According to the Lake County Health Department/Community Healt...
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Editorial: Schools need comprehensive plans to react to food allergies - and families' helpAug 27, 2015 11:00 pm - An Arlington Heights school district, after much consideration, has decided not to put its students, teachers and parents through the rigors of an all-out peanut and tre...
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Constable: Golden Gate cop, suicide experts agree listening is keyAug 26, 2015 1:00 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the date of the event. During a career that saw him talk to more than 200 suicidal people clinging to the ledg...
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Lake County Opioid Initiative leaders present at national conferenceAug 19, 2015 1:00 am - Leaders of the Lake County Opioid Initiative were invited by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy to talk about the program at a national conference in...
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Golf outing to benefit GiGi's Playhouse Aug. 14Aug 11, 2015 1:00 am - Golfers and supporters of GiGi's Playhouse will tee up for charity at 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14 for the GiGi's Playhouse National Achievement Center Golf Outing at The Brid...
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CDC: Coordinated approach could cut projected 'superbug' infections in halfAug 09, 2015 7:36 am - With the United States facing an increasing number of drug-resistant "superbugs," federal health officials said a relatively simple solution could prevent more than half...
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Hersey grad studies HIV epidemic in war zoneAug 05, 2015 9:00 am - When Marianne Seneczko applied for a Fulbright Fellowship in 2013 to study the HIV epidemic in Ukraine, she had no way of knowing the country was on the brink of revolut...
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Naperville funds fighting root of heroin, suicide problemsAug 01, 2015 7:30 am - Two years ago, Naperville set aside money for efforts to stop suicides and heroin use. The causes were identified as priorities in the city's social services grant, but...
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Experimental Ebola vaccine highly effective in early trialsJul 31, 2015 1:00 am - LONDON - An experimental Ebola vaccine tested on thousands of people in Guinea seems to work and might help shut down the waning epidemic in West Africa, according to in...
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Arlington Heights cops make first heroin overdose saveJul 21, 2015 1:00 am - Only a few months after all village officers were trained to use naloxone, on Tuesday the Arlington Heights Police Department made its first “save” - a teenager who had ...