Articles filed under Health Crises
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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...
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Red Cross: $6 million for Ebola fight stolen through fraudNov 04, 2017 7:00 am - FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) - Fraud by Red Cross workers and others wasted at least $6 million meant to fight the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the organization ...
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US rate for gun deaths is up for the second straight yearNov 03, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. rate for gun deaths has increased for the second straight year, following 15 years of no real change, a government report shows. Roughly two-thi...
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Baby gene therapy study offers hope for fatal muscle diseaseNov 01, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - A first attempt at gene therapy for a disease that leaves babies unable to move, swallow and, eventually, breathe has extended the tots' lives, and som...
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Opioid epidemic shares chilling similarities with the pastOct 28, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - While declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency Thursday, President Donald Trump said: "Nobody has seen anything like what's going o...
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State officials visit Lake County to learn about substance abuse programsOct 27, 2017 1:00 am - Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti and state health officials visited Waukegan on Friday to discuss the opioid crisis and learn about Lake County's efforts to battle substance ...
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AP Exclusive: Doctors clash over euthanasia for mentally illOct 26, 2017 7:00 am - GHENT, Belgium (AP) - After struggling with mental illness for years, Cornelia Geerts was so desperate to die that she asked her psychiatrist to kill her. Her sister wor...