Articles filed under Health Crises
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When to give up: Treatment or comfort for late-stage cancer?Jun 06, 2016 7:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) - Two months before Joe Clark died of colon cancer at age 31, a doctor gently told him it was time to stop treatment. He had suffered through more than a ye...
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Constable: Wife tells of Alzheimer's toll on caregiversJun 05, 2016 1:00 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com Love survives. No matter what new ruination Alzheimer's disease might inflict upon Marshall Brodien's mind today, the Geneva...
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Q&A: Parkinson's diseaseJun 04, 2016 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Before his death, Muhammad Ali was hospitalized with respiratory problems, his health complicated by advanced Parkinson's. The boxing great had lived w...
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Q&A: Parkinson's diseaseJun 03, 2016 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Muhammad Ali is in the hospital with respiratory problems, and while officials haven't given details about his condition, the boxing great's health in ...
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'Deaths of despair' drag life expectancy lower for whitesJun 03, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Rising drug and alcohol overdoses, suicides, and disease from chronic alcoholism - labeled "deaths of despair" by one expert - are cutting the lives of w...
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Panel: Treating hearing loss shouldn't be a pricey hassleJun 02, 2016 7:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Treating hearing loss shouldn't be such a pricey hassle. That's the message from a prestigious government advisory group that's calling on Medicare and...
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Halted in bird flu outbreak, federal egg inspections resumeJun 02, 2016 7:00 am - DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has resumed inspections of egg-handling facilities in 21 states more than a year after they were suspended ...
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Two from suburbs sickened with E. coli linked to flour recallJun 02, 2016 1:00 am - Two suburban residents have been infected with a strain of E. coli linked to recalled flour produced by General Mills. The afflicted, one from suburban Cook County and t...
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US death rate rose slightly last year _ first time in decadeJun 01, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The U.S. death rate rose slightly last year - the first increase in a decade, health officials reported Wednesday. Researchers think the increase is due ...
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UN: Latest Ebola outbreak in Guinea is now overJun 01, 2016 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The World Health Organization says the latest Ebola outbreak in Guinea has ended and the country is now entering a 90-day heightened surveillance period to...