Articles filed under Health Crises
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Mystery infections traced to blood-shedding religious ritualMar 13, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Add self-flagellation to the list of ways to get a dangerous viral blood infection. Researchers said Wednesday that they were initially puzzled how 10 Br...
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Claire's recalls makeup after regulators warn of asbestosMar 13, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The retailer Claire's is recalling three makeup products after U.S. regulators warned they might contain asbestos. Last week, the Food and Drug Administr...
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Scientists back temporary global ban on gene-edited babiesMar 13, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - An international group of scientists and ethicists on Wednesday called for a temporary global ban on making babies with edited genes. It's the latest rea...
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NIH cancer chief to serve as acting FDA commissionerMar 12, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the National Cancer Institute will temporarily take charge of the Food and Drug Administration next month after the departure of its curren...
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Gene-edited food quietly arrives in restaurant cooking oilMar 12, 2019 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Somewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That's according to the company making the oil, which say...
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US communities reach out to homeless as liver disease surgesMar 12, 2019 7:00 am - WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - This industrial city in central Massachusetts has had many nicknames through the years, including "the Heart of the Commonwealth" and "Wormtown."...
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Ebola treatment center in Congo is attacked again; 1 deadMar 09, 2019 6:00 am - KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Heavily armed assailants again attacked an Ebola treatment center in the heart of eastern Congo's deadly outbreak on Saturday, with one police off...
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What is your school's measles vaccination rate?Mar 09, 2019 1:00 am - This story has been updated to correct an error in a caption regarding the type of vaccine being given. Your children might be vaccinated against measles, but what ...
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Flu may have peaked, but experts eye jump in nastier strainMar 08, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - There's a strong chance this flu season has peaked, but health officials are watching a recent wave of illnesses from a nastier flu strain. Flu was repor...
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US regulators clear path for genetically modified salmonMar 08, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. regulators on Friday gave the green light to salmon genetically modified to grow about twice as fast as normal, but the company behind it may face l...