Articles filed under Health Crises
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Half of US adults have high blood pressure in new guidelinesNov 13, 2017 6:00 am - ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - New guidelines lower the threshold for high blood pressure, adding 30 million Americans to those who have the condition, which now plagues nearly ...
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Is your own MD best in the hospital? Study eyes hospitalistsNov 13, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The old-fashioned, family doctor style of medicine could be lifesaving for elderly hospitalized patients, a big study suggests, showing benefits over a ra...
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Study suggests women less likely to get CPR from bystandersNov 12, 2017 6:00 am - ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Women are less likely than men to get CPR from a bystander and more likely to die, a new study suggests, and researchers think reluctance to touch...
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Grandparents: Teen was home with flu before deputy firedNov 10, 2017 6:00 am - MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin eighth-grader fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy on a Native American reservation came home from school with the flu the morning of the ...
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Correction: FDA-Transplant Drug storyNov 09, 2017 6:00 am - TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - In a story Nov. 8 about a new drug approval, The Associated Press misspelled the drug's name. It is Prevymis, not Prevymix. A corrected version of t...
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Is it an emergency? Insurer makes patients question ER visitNov 09, 2017 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Alison Wrenne was making waffles for her two young children one morning when abdominal pain forced her to the floor. A neighbor who is a physician as...
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Boy with rare disease gets brand new skin with gene therapyNov 08, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Doctors treating a critically ill boy with a devastating skin disease used experimental gene therapy to create an entirely new skin for most of his body in...
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Will Island Lake increase age to buy cigarettes to 21?Nov 08, 2017 12:00 am - Those who want to increase the legal age for buying or possessing tobacco products to 21 in Illinois communities may soon learn if the Island Lake village board is an al...
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Drugstore pain pills as effective as opioids in ER patientsNov 07, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Emergency rooms are where many patients are first introduced to powerful opioid painkillers, but what if doctors offered over-the-counter pills instead? A...
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Trump calls attackers 'deranged' but mental health link weakNov 06, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - President Donald Trump called the Texas church shootings gunman "deranged," the New York bike path attacker "a very sick and deranged person," and the Las...