Health Care
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The Biz Week That Was: Hospital expands, Woodfield Mall gets more stores, and Google retail comes to Oak BrookOct 27, 2024 5:09 am - Ascension Alexian Brothers opens neurosciences unit to meet demands of aging population Patients were on the move at Ascension Alexian Brothers hospital in Elk Grove...
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At least 75 sickened as deadly McDonald’s E. coli outbreak expands
Oct 25, 2024 10:58 am - A deadly outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states, federal health officials said Friday.
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Harris, Beyoncé team up for a Texas rally on abortion rights and hope battleground states hear them
Oct 25, 2024 6:50 am - Vice President Kamala Harris will team up with Beyoncé on Friday for a rally in solidly Republican Texas aimed at highlighting the perilous medical fallout from the state's strict abortion ban and putting the blame squarely on Donald Trump.
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Delnor Hospital’s drone delivery program saves time transferring specimens, medical suppliesOct 24, 2024 6:05 pm - Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital is teaming up with a Lombard-based drone company to increase the speed of deliveries on its Geneva campus.
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Hospitals’ IV fluid shortage may impact surgeries for weeks
Oct 22, 2024 2:07 pm - Surgery schedules around the country may be washed out for several more weeks while a crucial IV and sterile fluids factory remains shut down for hurricane-related damage.
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Where health care is going: Ascension Alexian Brothers opens neurosciences unit to meet demands of aging populationOct 22, 2024 12:39 pm - Patients will be on the move Wednesday at Ascension Alexian Brothers hospital in Elk Grove Village, where a new 36-bed neurosciences unit opens.
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Northwestern Hospital Huntley to get medical office building
Oct 21, 2024 1:21 pm - Northwestern Hospital Huntley is getting a new medical office building. The Huntley Village Board recently gave its blessing to the project. The village board previously ...
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White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth control
Oct 21, 2024 8:30 am - Millions of people with private health insurance would be able to pick up over-the-counter methods like condoms, the “morning after” pill and birth control pills for free under a new rule the White House proposed on Monday.
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Trump, RFK vow to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ raising hopes and doubts
Oct 20, 2024 6:00 am - Staring into a camera last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he’d deepened his partnership with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. He gestured to his green “Make America Healthy Again” hat, a new and visible melding of his environmental politics and Trump’s conservative brand.
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First tick infected with a rare illness discovered in Lake CountyOct 18, 2024 2:50 pm - State health officials say the first tick to test positive for Ehrlichia muris eauclairensis, a bacteria transmitted by blacklegged tick bites, has been confirmed in Lake County.