Articles filed under Health Crises
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Indiana Animal Health Board warns of canine influenzaAug 22, 2017 7:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indiana State Board of Animal Health says dog owners should be watchful for signs of canine influenza. The board says a handful of cases have bee...
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FDA OKs Pfizer drug for rare, fast-killing type of leukemiaAug 17, 2017 7:00 am - TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new medicine for use against a rare, rapidly progressing blood cancer after other treatments have fa...
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Science Says: DNA test results may not change health habitsAug 17, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - If you learned your DNA made you more susceptible to getting a disease, wouldn't you work to stay healthy? You'd quit smoking, eat better, ramp up your e...
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Is it really Lyme? Researchers developing a new test to tellAug 16, 2017 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Diagnosing if a tick bite caused Lyme or another disease can be difficult but scientists are developing a new way to do it early - using a "signature" ...
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US teen drug overdose deaths inch up after years of declineAug 16, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - After years of decline, teen deaths from drug overdoses have inched up, a new U.S. government report shows. The drop in teen deaths had been a rare brigh...
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Philippines to cull 200,000 fowl after bird flu outbreakAug 11, 2017 7:00 am - MANILA, Philippines (AP) - The Philippines will cull at least 200,000 birds after confirming its first avian flu outbreak, but no animal-to-human transmission has been r...
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Pope Francis to Belgian Catholics: Stop offering euthanasiaAug 10, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Pope Francis has ordered a Belgian Catholic charity to stop offering euthanasia in its psychiatric hospitals. In May, the Brothers of Charity group announc...
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Study boosts hope of 'liquid biopsies' for cancer screeningAug 09, 2017 7:00 am - Scientists have the first major evidence that blood tests called liquid biopsies hold promise for screening people for cancer. Hong Kong doctors tried it for a type of h...
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Report reveals underground US haven for heroin, drug usersAug 07, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - A safe haven where drug users inject themselves with heroin and other drugs has been quietly operating in the United States for the past three years, a r...
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Doctor told to stop marketing 3-person baby techniqueAug 04, 2017 7:00 am - U.S. regulators on Friday warned a New York fertility doctor to stop marketing an experimental procedure that uses DNA from three people - a mother, a father and an egg ...