Articles filed under Health
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Health secretary: Hospital needed better oversightOct 15, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell says the federal government could have performed "much better oversight" of the Dallas hospital where two...
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Shire: AbbVie should proceed with $55B acquisitionOct 15, 2014 1:01 am - The drugmaker Shire wants North Chicago-based AbbVie to stick with its roughly $55 billion acquisition bid, and it is reminding its U.S. counterpart of the hefty breakup...
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Schaumburg patrol officers will treat heroin overdosesOct 15, 2014 1:01 am - Schaumburg police this week have joined a proven DuPage County program which provides patrol officers with a drug and proper training to help save heroin overdose victim...
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U.S. charity helps N. Korea fight drug-resistant TBOct 14, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - Despite worsening U.S.-North Korean relations, an American charity is ramping up efforts against an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the isol...
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CDC acknowledges it could have done more on EbolaOct 14, 2014 1:01 am - FORT WORTH, Texas - The nation's top disease-fighting agency acknowledged Tuesday that federal health experts failed to do all they should have done to prevent Ebola fro...
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Liquid nicotine exposures up sharply among kidsOct 14, 2014 1:01 am - SALT LAKE CITY - Poison control workers say that as the e-cigarette industry has boomed, the number of children exposed to the liquid nicotine that gives hand-held vapor...
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WHO: Ebola death rate rises to 70 percentOct 14, 2014 1:01 am - GENEVA - The death rate in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 70 percent and there could be up to 10,000 new cases a week in two months, the World Health Organization warne...
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Suburban hospitals play it safe with Ebola; one patient put into isolationOct 13, 2014 1:00 am - A patient was placed in isolation at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin while he was being assessed for the Ebola virus — which eventually was ruled out, hospital offici...
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Constable: Mt. Prospect family's history of hardship starts in SiberiaOct 11, 2014 11:00 pm - Ignoring the aches in her shoulders, smiling Val Schacht wraps her arms around her 22-year-old son's twisted body and hoists him to his feet. Maneuvering Ryan's 135-poun...
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Bionic hands mimic human control with added sensation of touchOct 11, 2014 7:44 am - MINNEAPOLIS - New advances in prosthetic devices are allowing people with artificial hands to tell when they're holding something without even looking, and pluck a stem ...