Health and Fitness
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Co-parenting during COVID-19Apr 18, 2020 7:00 am - Parenting is challenging enough when both parents live in the same home. When they live apart, as after a separation or divorce, things can get even more difficult. Pare...
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Our calendars keep alerting us about canceled events, like ghosts of the lives we would have led
Apr 18, 2020 6:16 am - Laurie Daste and her husband, Craig, couldn't wait to take their son, Rhett, to watch the New Orleans Pelicans. The basketball game, part of a patchwork of events fillin...
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FDA approves pill for aggressive breast cancer that's spreadApr 18, 2020 6:00 am - U.S. regulators on Friday approved a new drug for an aggressive type of breast cancer that's spread in the body - including into the brain, where it's especially tough t...
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Adopting a pet can help with the grieving processApr 18, 2020 6:00 am - Why do we love our pets? Let me count the ways. You have probably heard the phrase “eye candy.” I didn't hear it until a couple years ago. And at first I didn't understa...
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Camp One Step for kids with cancer finds way around stay-at-home orderApr 18, 2020 1:00 am - Working with children diagnosed with cancer, Camp One Step knows about finding ways around adversity. So when the COVID-19 pandemic forced its day campers to stay away,...
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Cancer survivors share tips on how to stay resilient during quarantineApr 18, 2020 1:00 am - Dancing was an escape for Ava Blaser and played a big part in her journey as a two-time cancer survivor. It's how she coped during weeks of isolation to safeguard her we...
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Orthopedic docs do their part with 'telehealth' conferencesApr 17, 2020 6:00 am - Other than contracting coronavirus, the last thing you'd want to do at this time is twist an ankle, aggravate a knee injury or break a finger and head to an emergency ro...
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Patients with autoimmune diseases in suburbs struggle to find hydroxychloroquineApr 17, 2020 5:30 am - Kim Stines knew she and her daughter could be in trouble when she found out the medicine they take to manage their autoimmune diseases was being touted as a possible cor...
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Providence Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center to open COVID-19 Recovery Unit in Downers GroveApr 16, 2020 11:00 pm - In order to assist the community and to help free-up acute hospital beds, Providence Life Services in Downers Grove is opening a COVID-19 Recovery Unit to care for indiv...
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Goldie Hawn shares wellness tips with U-46 students, familiesApr 16, 2020 1:00 am - "Don't forget to breathe," Oscar-winning actress Goldie Hawn says in a special video message to Elgin Area School District U-46 students and families. In it, Hawn shares...