Articles filed under Health Crises
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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...
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European police seize illicit medicines worth $185 millionMar 08, 2019 6:00 am - THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The European Union's police agency says law enforcement authorities seized illegally trafficked medicines last year worth more than 165 mil...
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FDA approves 1st immunotherapy drug to treat breast cancerMar 08, 2019 6:00 am - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first immunotherapy drug for breast cancer. Swiss drugmaker Roche's Tecentriq was OK'd Friday for treating advance...
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US regulators outline oversight on meat grown in lab dishesMar 07, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Burgers made by growing cow cells in a lab dish have a clearer path to reaching supermarkets as U.S. regulators on Thursday outlined how the emerging foo...
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Monthly shots control HIV as well as pills in 2 big studiesMar 07, 2019 6:00 am - SEATTLE (AP) - Monthly shots of HIV drugs worked as well as daily pills to control the virus that causes AIDS in two large international tests, researchers reported Thur...