Health and Fitness
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Home care is getting harder to findAug 28, 2021 7:00 am - Finding someone to provide home care services was always a challenge. The ongoing pandemic made a bad situation worse. Agencies that provide such services report great d...
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A notebook to preserve precious memories for future generationsAug 28, 2021 6:00 am - Many of us have noticed that when our children or grandchildren get older, about their early 20s, some get curious about the family history and the family “tree.” It's u...
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Constable: Lone Star tick is headed here and could kill you. But don't panic.Aug 28, 2021 1:00 am - YouTube #8220;It's a sweltering summer afternoon. I'm pushing aside tree limbs and crunching leaves to get back to the trap that I baited two hours ago,#8221; writes Hol...
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Constable: Comirnaty might make you have SpikeVax envy, but just get the shotAug 26, 2021 5:30 am - When vaccines came up in conversations with friends, and it did, I took misguided pride in announcing that I got the Pfizer vaccine. I didn't choose Pfizer. It was pure ...
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Pritzker reimposes statewide indoor mask mandate and vaccinations for several groupsAug 26, 2021 1:00 am - Less than three months after declaring the state fully reopened, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered a return to mask wearing indoors to counter two months of surging CO...
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Show your pooch some love on National Dog Day Aug. 26Aug 25, 2021 6:00 am - National Dog Day is Thursday, Aug. 26. It was started in 2004 by Colleen Paige - an author, dog trainer and animal rescue advocate - to honor all dogs who protect us, co...
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DuPage County plans large clinics for COVID-19 booster shotsAug 25, 2021 5:30 am - While several suburban health departments say they have no current plans to reopen mass vaccination sites, DuPage County is preparing to open large clinics to provide CO...
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Pritzker signs bills on mental health response, insurance coverage
Aug 25, 2021 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been steadily acting on more than 660 bills sent to him by the General Assembly this year ahead of a weekend deadline for bill actio...
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Boosters could come to nursing home residents and health care workers by late SeptemberAug 25, 2021 1:00 am - As COVID-19 infections inch up at long-term care facilities, plans are ramping up to deliver booster shots to seniors living there, likely by late September, officials s...
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Itasca 'super nurse' earns top honor in her fieldAug 24, 2021 6:00 am - Dawn Gonzalez of Itasca is so passionate about nursing that she sometimes works seven days a week in the field. Consequently, when administrators with BrightStar Care in...