Articles filed under Health Crises
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Risk & reward: Stopping a cancer drug to see if you're curedMar 02, 2017 6:00 am - Imagine you had a life-threatening cancer that a wonder drug had kept in remission for years. Would you risk quitting? Thousands of people with a blood cancer called chr...
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Gene therapy lets a French teen dodge sickle cell diseaseMar 01, 2017 6:00 am - A French teen who was given gene therapy for sickle cell disease more than two years ago now has enough properly working red blood cells to dodge the effects of the diso...
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Those with blurry close-up vision get some new helpMar 01, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Squinting while texting? Always losing your reading glasses? An eye implant that takes about 10 minutes to put in place is the newest in a list of surg...
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First step to help preserved organs survive the deep freezeMar 01, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Deep-freezing donated organs might one day help improve the transplant supply but scientists must first figure out how to thaw the delicate tissue with...
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UN sees bird flu changes but calls risk of people spread lowMar 01, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The World Health Organization says it has noticed changes in the bird flu virus now spreading in China, but says the risk of the disease spreading easily b...
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Old mold from penicillin discoverer auctioned for $14,617Mar 01, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - How much is an old, dried out piece of mold worth? Apparently more than $14,600 if it was created by the doctor who discovered penicillin. The nearly 90-ye...
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Number of suspected mumps cases at 3 Barrington schools now at 12Mar 01, 2017 12:00 am - Health officials said Thursday there are two confirmed cases of mumps at Barrington High School and they have identified 10 probable cases of the disease at the high sch...
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New help for that bane of middle-age: blurry close-up visionFeb 28, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Squinting while texting? Always losing your reading glasses? An eye implant that takes about 10 minutes to put in place is the newest in a list of surg...
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Gene therapy to fight a blood cancer succeeds in major studyFeb 28, 2017 6:00 am - An experimental gene therapy that turns a patient's own blood cells into cancer killers worked in a major study, with more than one-third of very sick lymphoma patients ...
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Colorectal cancer rare but rising among millennials, Gen XFeb 28, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Colorectal cancer mostly strikes middle-aged and older people, but new research shows a disturbing rise in cases among young adults. Tuesday's study by...