Health and Fitness
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Vernon Township Community Mental Health Board celebrates one-year anniversaryJan 23, 2024 3:25 pm - The Vernon Township Community Mental Health Board recently celebrated its anniversary and remains dedicated to reducing the stigma around mental health, while also increa...
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Recovery Centers of America moves outpatient care to St. Charles
Jan 23, 2024 12:03 pm - Recovery Centers of America has moved its outpatient treatment center from South Elgin to a new larger space in St. Charles, which administrators say will allow the team ...
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Along for the Ride: Don’t be a statistic in 2024 by using safe cycling practicesJan 23, 2024 6:00 am - With freezing temperatures, snowy/icy roads and less daylight, winter cajoles us off the bike saddle to a safer activity, setting cycling goals. Catalogued among my past ...
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Elmhurst-based foundation awards grants to 7 hearing investigators in 2024Jan 22, 2024 10:02 pm - The American Hearing Research Foundation announced the recipients of its 2024 research grants. It will award seven grants totaling just over $358,000 to investigators wh...
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Mobile stroke unit now available for South Elgin patientsJan 22, 2024 4:05 pm - Northwestern Medicine and the South Elgin and Countryside Fire Protection District have teamed up to bring life-saving care to stroke patients through a mobile stroke uni...
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Sherman’s Nurse of the Year preaches making connections with patientsJan 21, 2024 10:23 am - As a mentor to young nurses, Advocate Sherman Hospital outpatient recovery nurse Jean Lowe says the most important thing she can teach them is to focus on patient-centere...
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High stress in teens tied to obesity, high blood pressure in adulthoodJan 21, 2024 10:19 am - Young adults who reported consistently high levels of stress beginning in adolescence were more likely to develop cardiometabolic risk factors, such as obesity and high b...
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Social engagement can help with sleepJan 21, 2024 10:19 am - Q: I had been spending a lot of time alone, so I made a point of joining friends at a museum, going on a group hike and volunteering at a book sale. I had been strug...
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A surgeon general report once cleared the air about smoking. Is it time for one on vaping?Jan 21, 2024 7:00 am - Sixty years ago, the U.S. surgeon general released a report that settled a longstanding public debate about the dangers of cigarettes and led to huge changes in smoking i...
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Grief & healing: A handyman and a listJan 20, 2024 9:30 am - My most recent household repair challenge was a hall closet door off the tracks. An accordion type door that hangs by wheels on a track. Such folding doors are rather fra...