Articles filed under Health Crises
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Rise in teen suicide, social media coincide; is there link?Nov 14, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - An increase in suicide rates among U.S. teens occurred at the same time social media use surged and a new analysis suggests there may be a link. Suicide r...
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Opioid addiction treatments face off in US trialNov 14, 2017 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - The first U.S. study to compare two treatments for opioid addiction finds a monthly shot works as well as a daily drug to prevent relapse. The shot requir...
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FDA warns of injury, death with herbal supplement kratomNov 14, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health authorities are warning about reports of injury, addiction and death with a herbal supplement that has been promoted as an alternative t...
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US regulators approve first digital pill to track patientsNov 14, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. regulators have approved the first drug with a sensor that alerts doctors when the medication has been taken, offering a new way of monitoring pat...
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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...