Health and Fitness
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Your health: Working from home linked to insomniaMar 04, 2017 6:30 am - Working from home linked to insomnia While some see being able to work from home as a job perk, it can actually lead to excess stress and insomnia, FOX Business rep...
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Depression is common among heart attack survivorsMar 04, 2017 6:30 am - Q: It has been six weeks since my husband, who is 57, had a heart attack, and I'm afraid he's depressed. His doctors say he's doing really well, but he's getting more qu...
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Boost your immune system to help ward off illnessMar 04, 2017 6:23 am - Coming down with the flu or a cold is pretty common this time of year. Wouldn't it be great to have the upper hand on seasonal illnesses? Although you might not be able ...
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Sometimes you really do need to keep your kid home from school
Mar 04, 2017 6:13 am - In a perfect world, kids would never get sick, and they'd never miss a day of school. But it's not a perfect world. Kids get sick all the time, and they love to share t...
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New Naperville ride promotes drug recovery through cyclingMar 03, 2017 12:00 am - Money. A car. A driver's license. A job. A support network. A schedule. When a recovering heroin addict first gets out of rehab, these are the things he often doesn't ha...
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Barrington mumps cases on verge of an outbreakMar 03, 2017 12:00 am - A cluster of mumps cases in Barrington schools is on the verge of an outbreak as health officials continue to identify more suspected cases of the disease. Lake County ...
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Prospect Heights retiree finds meaning in making musicMar 01, 2017 5:00 am - Prospect Heights retiree loves learning to play, perform music
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Naperville teen's PROMise: Cure SMAMar 01, 2017 5:00 am - Fourteen years ago, medical researchers began to identify a chemical compound that can stop the effects of a rare genetic disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Four ye...
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Number of suspected mumps cases at 3 Barrington schools now at 12Mar 01, 2017 12:00 am - Health officials said Thursday there are two confirmed cases of mumps at Barrington High School and they have identified 10 probable cases of the disease at the high sch...
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Gene therapy to fight a blood cancer succeeds in major study
Feb 28, 2017 6:00 am - An experimental gene therapy that turns a patient's own blood cells into cancer killers worked in a major study, with more than one-third of very sick lymphoma patients ...