Articles filed under Health Crises
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Nearly half of US adults have heart or blood vessel diseaseJan 31, 2019 6:00 am - A new report estimates that nearly half of all U.S. adults have some form of heart or blood vessel disease, a medical milestone that's mostly due to recent guidelines th...
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FDA OKs 1st generic version of popular Advair asthma inhalerJan 30, 2019 6:00 am - The first generic version of the popular Advair asthma inhaler has been approved by U.S. regulators. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Mylan's versi...
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Food industry sway over public health gets new scrutinyJan 29, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The tweet from a group that finances development in Latin America was direct: Sodas do not offer beauty or joy, just a lot of sugar. There was one proble...
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AP Exclusive: US Nobelist was told of gene-edited babiesJan 28, 2019 6:00 am - Long before the claim of the world's first gene-edited babies became public, Chinese researcher He Jiankui shared the news with a U.S. Nobel laureate who objected to the...
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Correction: Growing Up Digital-Smartphone Psychiatry storyJan 23, 2019 6:00 am - In a story Jan. 3 about using smartphones to detect depression, The Associated Press misstated the title of Menachem Fromer. He is a mental health researcher at Verily, ...
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Correction: Polio-Mozambique storyJan 23, 2019 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - In a story Jan. 22 about polio in Mozambique, The Associated Press reported erroneously the number of polio cases. There is one case, not two. A corrected ...
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Presentation on vaping, e-cigarette dangers Thursday in LibertyvilleJan 23, 2019 12:00 am - Andy Duran, executive director of Linking Efforts Against Drugs, will give a presentation on the dangers of vaping and e-cigarettes from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Highland...
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China seems to confirm scientist's gene-edited babies claimJan 21, 2019 6:00 am - Chinese authorities appear to have confirmed a scientist's unpublished claim that he helped make the world's first gene-edited babies and that a second pregnancy is unde...
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Elk Grove opioid program gets $46,000 grantJan 19, 2019 12:00 am - Elk Grove Village's program in response to the opioid epidemic has received a $46,000 grant that will go toward providing addiction treatment, especially for the uninsur...
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UN health agency: Rising misconduct reports are 'positive'Jan 18, 2019 6:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization said Friday that it's seeing increasing reports of misconduct reported by staffers within the U.N. health agency, describing ...