Articles filed under Health Crises
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Schaumburg donor drive seeks match for oncology nurseMar 27, 2015 5:30 am - The family of a longtime oncology nurse battling leukemia is holding a stem cell donor drive in Schaumburg Sunday hoping to help her find a cure. The “Be The Match Regis...
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Editorial: Arlington Hts. nonprofit fights to save heroin addicts, one naloxone injector at a timeMar 27, 2015 1:00 am - In a nondescript little office on the north side of Arlington Heights, history is being made in the war on heroin overdose. For the first time, the lifesaving drug nalo...
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Suburbs' first OD awareness clinic opens in Arlington Hts.Mar 26, 2015 5:30 am - Addicts, family members, police and anyone else with a need can be trained and take home the tools to save someone from an opiate overdose at the suburbs' first walk-in ...
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Liberia: Families of health workers killed by Ebola get $5kMar 18, 2015 11:00 pm - MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Liberia's government has begun making payments to the families of health workers who died of Ebola in the world's worst ever outbreak, an offici...
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5 key findings from AP's story on WHO and the Ebola outbreakMar 18, 2015 11:00 pm - GENEVA (AP) - In the aftermath of the world's biggest outbreak of Ebola, the World Health Organization acknowledged it was too slow to act, blaming factors including a l...
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2 more aid workers flown back to US for Ebola monitoringMar 17, 2015 11:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Health officials say two more American aid workers arrived in the United States on Wednesday night to be monitored for Ebola. The two bring to 17 the num...
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4 more aid workers flown back to US for Ebola monitoringMar 16, 2015 11:00 pm - NEW YORK (AP) - Four more American aid workers arrived back in the United States on Tuesday from West Africa to be monitored for Ebola, health officials said. The latest...
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American who contracted Ebola in Africa now in critical condition at Maryland hospitalMar 15, 2015 11:00 pm - BETHESDA, Md. (AP) - American who contracted Ebola in Africa now in critical condition at Maryland hospital. ...
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10 US charity staff to leave Sierra Leone amid Ebola scareMar 14, 2015 11:00 pm - FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Ten health care workers with a Boston-based nonprofit organization responding to Sierra Leone's Ebola outbreak are to be evacuated to the U...
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Americans returning from Africa for Ebola monitoringMar 13, 2015 11:00 pm - ATLANTA (AP) - Public health officials said Saturday that a number of Americans will return from west Africa to be monitored after possibly being exposed to Ebola. The C...