Articles filed under Health Crises
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Constable: Money gone, but new heart arrivesJan 14, 2015 10:00 pm - Sunday got off to a bleak start for Tyler and Rachel Knickerbocker of Huntley. Not only was their baby boy, Noah, enduring his fifth month in a Milwaukee hospital and st...
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Schaumburg police now carry overdose antidoteJan 09, 2015 12:01 am - Schaumburg police officers recently joined the DuPage County Narcan Program and are now carrying the lifesaving antidote to opiate drug overdose. Officers have been trai...
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Researchers: IMF policies hindered Ebola responseDec 30, 2014 12:01 am - YORK, England - Professors from three leading British universities say International Monetary Fund policies favoring international debt repayment over social spending co...
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Experts: 2014 was a busy, black-eye year for disease controlDec 29, 2014 4:55 am - NEW YORK - Health officials are celebrating some important victories in 2014, and Time magazine even named Ebola fighters the persons of the year. Nevertheless, this was...
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CDC monitoring tech for possible Ebola exposureDec 24, 2014 12:01 am - ATLANTA - A laboratory technician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was being monitored Wednesday for possible accidental exposure to the Ebola virus tha...
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Report: Ebola survival improving in Sierra LeoneDec 24, 2014 12:01 am - One year into the world's worst Ebola outbreak, doctors are reporting an encouraging sign: About 70 percent of patients in a hard-hit area of Sierra Leone now survive. ...
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Sierra Leone urges safe burials to stem EbolaDec 21, 2014 12:01 am - DAKAR, Senegal - The radio announcement is chilling and blunt: "If I die, I want the deaths to stop with me." Dr. Desmond Williams continues: "I want to give my family t...
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Flu worries prompt more Indiana hospitals limitsDec 20, 2014 12:01 am - FORT WAYNE, Ind. - More Indiana hospitals are being advised to put temporary visitor restrictions in place to try to protect patients and staff from the flu virus. The F...
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Child being observed for Ebola symptoms after arriving at O'HareDec 19, 2014 12:01 am - Doctors are monitoring a child for Ebola virus symptoms after the youngster arrived at O'Hare International Airport with a fever. The child, who is in stable condition, ...
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10 million child deaths attributed to global lack of toiletsNov 30, 2014 6:44 am - In a world in which 14 percent of the population in the 21st century still defecate outdoors, children remain among the most vulnerable to a lack of toilets, contaminati...