Health and Fitness
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Becoming rigid and inflexible cuts you off from supportApr 06, 2019 7:30 am - Ibsen, the great Norwegian playwright, wrote a play called "Brand." I saw it performed in Stockholm. (But if you read the play in English beforehand, it's possible to fo...
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What is digestion resistant starch?Apr 06, 2019 7:30 am - I am a very fortunate physician. Often my patients will present me with something new in health and healing. Two weeks ago, a patient introduced me to the concept of d...
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Five ways to help kids with autism make friendsApr 06, 2019 7:30 am - Every parent wants their child to have friends. Parents whose children don't make friends easily worry that their child will be lonely. This is especially true for pare...
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College student's toughest assignment - finding a new kidneyApr 06, 2019 1:00 am - Writing data quickly onto a page in her three-ring binder, 22-year-old college student Ally Hembd treats this assignment as a matter of life and death. “I could technica...
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From iffy first date to a literal 'perfect match' for kidney donationApr 06, 2019 1:00 am - Their one date in 2001, when Vikki Marazzo was a 15-year-old high school girl and Harl Morgan was a 19-year-old man, featured a walk around downtown St. Charles and a co...
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Pritzker to sign 'Tobacco 21' legislation on purchases into law SundayApr 06, 2019 1:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker will sign into law a statewide initiative that raises from 18 to 21 the minimum age to purchase tobacco products. The signing ceremony Sunday in Chica...
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Avoid daily aspirin unless your doctor prescribes it, new guidelines adviseApr 04, 2019 11:00 pm - For decades, a daily dose of aspirin was considered an easy way to prevent a heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular event. Then came a string of recent studies cha...
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Medicare's confusing coverage rules can trip up patients in costly ways
Apr 02, 2019 11:00 pm - When Beverly Dunn called her new primary care doctor's office last November to schedule an annual checkup, she assumed her Medicare coverage would pick up most of the ta...
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How Stevenson engineering students designed an adaptive recorder for a Long Grove third-graderApr 02, 2019 6:00 am - At 8-years old, Ella Doloughty of Long Grove loves dogs, unicorns, dancing - and anything pink. She also loves to play the recorder, and she sailed through learning the ...
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How ComicBooks for Kids! brings cheer to hospitalized children and teensApr 01, 2019 11:00 pm - A grass-roots charity that started in St. Charles has a unique mission: to provide comic books to children in hospitals and cancer centers across the country, as a way t...