Articles filed under Health Crises
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$1 million fed grant to help DuPage study, fight opioid addictionOct 07, 2019 1:00 am - DuPage County plans to start an opioid fatality review team to see if it can find common factors in overdose deaths and identify risk factors that lead to opioid abuse. ...
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Verbal autopsies used in push to better track global deathsOct 06, 2019 7:00 am - KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - One afternoon last month, a young woman with a tablet computer sat next to Alphonsine Umurerwa on the living room couch, asking questions, listenin...
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Tanzania rejects suspicions that it covered up Ebola casesOct 03, 2019 7:00 am - NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Tanzania on Thursday rejected suspicions that it might have covered up cases of the deadly Ebola virus, calling it a plot to show the country “in...
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What we know about the US vaping illness outbreakOct 03, 2019 7:00 am - U.S. health officials continue to look for patterns in the hundreds of serious lung injuries reported in people who use electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices. A...
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US vaping illnesses top 1,000; death count is up to 18Oct 03, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The number of vaping-related illnesses has surpassed 1,000, and there’s no sign the outbreak is fading, U.S. health officials said Thursday. Doctors sa...
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Twin births in US now going down, at lowest level in decadeOct 03, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Fewer U.S. families are seeing double, according to a government report that finds a drop in new twins. Twin births steadily increased for more than thre...
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IU Med School getting $36M grant for Alzheimer’s researchOct 02, 2019 7:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The National Institutes of Health has awarded the Indiana University School of Medicine a $36 million grant over five years for a drug discovery cent...
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Group pulls video that stirred talk of designer babiesOct 02, 2019 7:00 am - A government-funded group that’s leading efforts to set standards for gene editing has pulled a video it posted in the wake of concern about how it portrayed the ethic...
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Verbal autopsies used in push to better track global deathsOct 01, 2019 7:00 am - KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) - One afternoon last month, a young woman with a tablet computer sat next to Alphonsine Umurerwa on the living room couch, asking questions, listenin...
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CVS stops sale of heartburn drugs with suspect contaminantSep 30, 2019 7:00 am - CVS has halted sales of popular heartburn treatment Zantac and its generic store brand after warnings by U.S. health regulators. It's the latest precautionary move by re...