Articles filed under Health Crises
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FDA links very rare cancer, 9 deaths, to breast implantsMar 22, 2017 7:00 am - Nine deaths from a very rare kind of cancer have been linked to breast implants, indicating a very low but increased risk in women with implants, according to the U.S. F...
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Mumps cases at Station Middle School now considered an outbreak tooMar 22, 2017 5:15 am - Station Middle School now has three confirmed cases of the mumps, making it the second Barrington Area Unit School District 220 school to have an outbreak of the disease...
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FDA OKs new drug as add-on treatment for Parkinson'sMar 21, 2017 7:00 am - TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - U.S. regulators have approved the first new drug in a decade for Parkinson's disease, a chronic neurological disorder that causes tremors and moveme...
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Bonucci misses Italy training session with fluMar 21, 2017 7:00 am - FLORENCE, Italy (AP) - Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci has missed a national team training session with the flu, three days before the Azzurri's World Cup qualifier agai...
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Bird flu confirmed in 2 poultry flocks in north AlabamaMar 21, 2017 7:00 am - MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama officials have confirmed bird flu in two poultry flocks, just a week after three commercial breeders had to kill their chickens across th...
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Patients' reports may aid prostate cancer treatment choiceMar 21, 2017 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Men with early-stage prostate cancer face a dizzying quandary over which treatment to choose but two new studies on side effects may make those decisions ...
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Cholesterol drug cuts heart risks, spurs new debate on costMar 17, 2017 7:00 am - A long-acting cholesterol medicine cut the risk of having a heart attack or some other serious problems by 15 to 20 percent in a big study that's likely to spur fresh de...
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Indigenous Bolivians have some of the healthiest heartsMar 17, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Deep in the Bolivian Amazon lives a group of indigenous people who spend their days hunting and farming. Researchers say this may be partly why they have s...
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Falls are taking a huge and rising toll on elderly brainsMar 16, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Elderly people are suffering concussions and other brain injuries from falls at what appear to be unprecedented rates, according to a new report from U.S...
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UK grants 1st license to make babies using DNA from 3 peopleMar 16, 2017 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Britain's Newcastle University says its scientists have received a license to create babies using DNA from three people to prevent women from passing on po...