Articles filed under Health Crises
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Can gene therapy be harnessed to fight the AIDS virus?Feb 13, 2018 6:00 am - For more than a decade, the strongest AIDS drugs could not fully control Matt Chappell's HIV infection. Now his body controls it by itself, and researchers are trying to...
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Measles cases in Europe tripled last year, officials sayFeb 13, 2018 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control says the number of measles cases across the continent tripled last year and is continuing to cause n...
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14 worms pulled from woman's eye after rare infectionFeb 13, 2018 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - An Oregon woman who had worms coming out of her eye is being called the first known human case of a parasitic infection spread by flies. Fourteen tiny wo...
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Constable: Quest for 'likes' boosts deadly 'pass-out challenge'Feb 13, 2018 4:33 am - The suburban mom and her husband were in bed. Their 12-year-old son said good night at 10:45 p.m. before retreating to his bedroom. The boy's sister and two friends were...
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Marijuana's 4/20 holiday tied to rise in fatal car crashesFeb 12, 2018 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Marijuana users' self-proclaimed holiday is linked with a slight increase in fatal U.S. car crashes, an analysis of 25 years of data found. The study lack...
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Flu season still getting worse; now as bad as 2009 swine fluFeb 09, 2018 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The flu has further tightened its grip on the U.S. This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago. A government report out Friday sho...
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Scientists aim at joint injuries that can trigger arthritisFeb 07, 2018 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Arthritis isn't always from the wear and tear of getting older - younger adults too often get it after suffering knee or ankle injuries. Now researcher...
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Insulin quality questions have diabetes experts scramblingFeb 07, 2018 6:00 am - TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - Preliminary research suggesting that some diabetes patients may be injecting medicine that has partially disintegrated is causing concern even as se...
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Volunteers neeeded for opioid initiativeFeb 07, 2018 12:00 am - The Lake County Opioid Initiative is looking for volunteers to serve on a fundraising subcommittee. Anyone who wants to participate should attend the next meeting at 11:...
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2nd man has gene editing; therapy has no safety flags so farFeb 06, 2018 6:00 am - A second patient has been treated in a historic gene editing study in California, and no major side effects or safety issues have emerged from the first man's treatment ...