Articles filed under Health Crises
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Flu season was one of the deadliest for US childrenJun 08, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The past flu season was the deadliest for U.S. children in nearly a decade, health officials said Friday. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offi...
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Celebrity suicides highlight troubling trend in midlifeJun 08, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The deaths of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade highlight a troubling trend - rising suicides among middle-aged Americans. M...
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Study says vaping by kids isn't up, but some are skepticalJun 07, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Vaping held steady last year in high school students and declined in middle school kids, according to new government data, but some researchers are skept...
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Sobering report teases out factors leading to suicidesJun 07, 2018 7:00 am - SEATTLE (AP) - Suicide rates inched up in nearly every U.S. state from 1999 through 2016, according to a new government report released Thursday. More than half of suici...
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Superbug infections rising among injection drug usersJun 07, 2018 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - One type of superbug bacteria is increasingly spreading among people who inject drugs, according to a new government report. Users of heroin and other in...
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Licking cancer: US postal stamp helped fund key breast studyJun 04, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Countless breast cancer patients in the future will be spared millions of dollars of chemotherapy thanks in part to something that millions of Americans d...
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Many breast cancer patients can skip chemo, big study findsJun 04, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Most women with the most common form of early-stage breast cancer can safely skip chemotherapy without hurting their chances of beating the disease, docto...
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Study finds rare gain for tough-to-treat pancreatic cancerJun 04, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Patients with pancreatic cancer that hadn't spread lived substantially longer on a four-drug combo than on a single standard cancer drug, a rare advance f...
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US blocks UN health panel from backing taxes on sugar drinksJun 01, 2018 7:00 am - GENEVA (AP) - The Trump administration has torpedoed a plan to recommend higher taxes on sugary drinks, forcing a World Health Organization panel to back off the U.N. ag...
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Blacks fare surprisingly well in prostate cancer researchJun 01, 2018 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Black men with advanced prostate cancer fared surprisingly well in two new studies that challenge current thinking about racial disparities in the disease...