Health and Fitness
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Everyone can be a superhero at Superhero 5K run and walkMay 27, 2019 7:00 am - All year long, officials with Journeys: The Road Home in Palatine work to provide shelter and social services to suburban homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless...
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What Journeys doesMay 27, 2019 7:00 am - Journeys: The Road Home provides both shelter and social services to the homeless and those at risk of becoming homeless in 37 communities in North and Northwest sub...
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Amputee stories: Steps toward a new normalMay 26, 2019 7:30 am - Northwest Community Healthcare physical therapist Jessica Greve has spent years working with amputees. She and NCH Physical Therapy Rehab Services manager Julie Schaubl...
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Children need to focus on self-care, tooMay 26, 2019 7:00 am - Children nowadays are busier than ever. From homework, extracurricular activities to the hustle and bustle of daily life, it can be easy for them to feel anxious, stress...
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Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital opens Hearing Aid DispensaryMay 25, 2019 7:30 am - Approximately 15 percent of American adults report some trouble hearing, but early intervention and treatment is routinely not occurring despite the potentially serious ...
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We need all the good luck we can getMay 25, 2019 7:20 am - In a nice episode of the British TV series "Downton Abby" there is a big wedding. At the reception a young woman and man are chatting, and it appears to be a budding ro...
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Early report of West Nile activity in DuPage County prompts health department advisoryMay 23, 2019 11:00 pm - The report of a mosquito batch testing positive for the presence of West Nile virus has prompted the DuPage County Health Department to encourage county residents to pro...
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Constable: Environmentalists putting pedal, mettle toward climate changeMay 23, 2019 5:30 am - In 1979, as Environmental Protection Agency was beefing up the Clean Water and Clean Air acts, environmentally minded college student Mark Ailes, his friend Kay Richards...
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North Aurora firm recalls 62,000 pounds of beef that may have E. coliMay 23, 2019 1:00 am - A North Aurora packing company is recalling 62,112 pounds of raw beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli. Aurora Packing Company, Inc. produced and packaged ...
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German healing practitioner to speak about a path to health for body and soulMay 22, 2019 11:00 pm - On Thursday, June 13, Brigitte Schneider, a licensed healing practitioner from Frankfurt, Germany in practice for 30 years, will come to the Downers Grove Public Library...