Health and Fitness
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How to handle growing COVID worries
Apr 04, 2020 6:00 am - Nearly half the people in the U.S. say the coronavirus crisis is harming their mental health, according to a survey published Thursday that demonstrates how the COVID-19...
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Constable: Treating COVID-19 'like nothing I've ever seen,' Hinsdale doctor saysApr 04, 2020 6:00 am - At the start of a normal week, Dr. Christopher O'Connor of Hinsdale would be in an operating room at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, taking care of a patient ...
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Does wearing makeshift masks help, work? We asked a Central DuPage doctor.Apr 03, 2020 1:00 am - By now we have all seen it: Friends and neighbors wearing masks while shopping for groceries. Or pulling their turtleneck collars up around their noses. Or sporting a ba...
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Conant teachers use 3-D technology to make PPEApr 02, 2020 11:00 pm - James B. Conant High School science teacher Dave Torpe and Applied Technology Department Chairman Eric LeBlanc have been occupying their time recently doing what they ca...
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Libertyville chiropractor offers timely wellness tipsApr 02, 2020 11:00 pm - Long before COVID-19 became a household term, Dr. Jordan Leasure made it her life's work to proactively optimize people's health, including our all-important immune syst...
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Palatine man offers free use of RV to medical workerApr 02, 2020 1:00 am - Palatine resident Ryan Gable says he's willing to donate use of his recreational vehicle to a Northwest suburban medical professional who is concerned about spreading CO...
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FDA wants heartburn meds Zantac off the market due to contaminationApr 01, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. health regulators are telling drugmakers to immediately pull their popular heartburn drugs off the market after determining that a contamination i...
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How to manage stress during the coronavirus pandemicMar 31, 2020 11:00 pm - With the legalization of cannabis in Illinois, it may be tempting to turn to marijuana - as well as tobacco and alcohol - as a way to manage anxiety during the coronavir...
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Can you get coronavirus from mail or Amazon deliveries? It's very unlikely, experts sayMar 31, 2020 5:30 am - With COVID-19 able to survive on some surfaces for days, are the mail, Amazon packages and even the daily newspaper safe to handle? Officials from the United States Post...
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Where to find county-by-county and maybe even suburb-by-suburb COVID-19 dataMar 31, 2020 5:00 am - If you'd like to see a breakdown of the number of reported COVID-19 cases county by county and, in some cases, even town by town, a state website and area counties' webs...