Health and Fitness
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COVID-19 booster shots surpass 667,000, daily infection averages slide in OctoberOct 29, 2021 1:00 am - More than 667,000 COVID-19 booster shots have gone into Illinoisans' arms - or about 31% of all COVID vaccine doses since mid-August, officials said Friday. From Aug. 14...
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Heal Elgin Clinic to bring free medical, dental and vision care to the underservedOct 29, 2021 1:00 am - More than 600 volunteers will come together to provide free dental, vision and medical care, as well as food, clothing and professional services to the underserved popul...
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After FDA OK, what you need to know about Pfizer vaccine for ages 5 to 11Oct 29, 2021 1:00 am - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday gave emergency use authorization to Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, and it's expected the Centers fo...
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'We are truly blessed': Naperville couple a perfect match as wife donates kidney to husbandOct 28, 2021 5:30 am - Editor's note: Dr. Melissa Prest is the dietitian with the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois. Her name was misspelled in previous versions of this story. Aaron...
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Ezike promotes 'boosterizing' state against COVID-19, and first shots for othersOct 28, 2021 1:00 am - About 71% of Illinoisans who are eligible for COVID-19 vaccines have gotten at least one shot, according to Illinois Department of Public Health data. The remaining 29% ...
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COVID-19 shots for kids 5-11 expected in days, but 'we have to work on the parents' who resistOct 28, 2021 1:00 am - Assuming a speedy approval of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccines for children ages 5 to 11 by federal regulators, doses could arrive in Illinois by Monday, the state's top healt...
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'Years of dreaming': New collection of therapeutic tools debuts at Arlington Heights libraryOct 27, 2021 5:10 am - While 5-year-old Erica Dancz was playing with some of the therapeutic toys and tools now available in the Arlington Heights Memorial Library's Kids' World section, her d...
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Vaccination spike comes at deadline for some state workersOct 27, 2021 1:00 am - Daily COVID-19 vaccinations jumped to 70,688 Tuesday, coinciding with a deadline for certain state workers to get their first shot. That total is more than double the av...
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Link between DVT and varicose veins uncertainOct 26, 2021 11:00 pm - Q: I inherited my mother's prominent varicose veins, and despite surgery, they are back. My sister recently told me our mother had deep vein thrombosis when she was olde...
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DuPage to close mass vaccination clinic as focus shifts to inoculating kidsOct 26, 2021 1:00 am - A DuPage County mass vaccination clinic that reopened earlier this month to administer COVID-19 boosters will shut down again as public health officials prepare to distr...