Health Care
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Doctors, patients have played roles in creating opioid crisisMar 19, 2018 1:00 pm - At Amita Health, we are acutely aware of the challenge that the opioid crisis presents to heighten awareness of the public and medical professionals, alter attitudes of ...
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Truly a miracleMar 13, 2018 11:00 pm - Thomas Daniels has spent a lot of time in the spotlight. An avid violinist, performer and singer, he's not your typical 91-year-old. In his younger years, he played in t...
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Elmhurst Hospital starts support group for parents coping with lossMar 06, 2018 4:30 am - In the few first days after her baby died, Rachel Tobin wore her hospital band on her wrist to remind herself when she woke up in the morning that her unthinkable, surre...
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Patients move into new Lake Forest hospitalMar 05, 2018 12:00 am - About 70 patients moved into the new Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital via ambulances and tunnels just before today's official opening. The state-of-the-art hos...
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Tree of Life to offer 'Medicare for All' forum' March 7\Mar 02, 2018 10:00 pm - The Tree of Life Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 5603 Bull Valley Road in McHenry, will host and facilitate a public Medicare for All Forum at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Mar...
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Palatine man, Carpentersville woman among 12 patients in chain of kidney transplantsMar 01, 2018 12:00 am - Palatine resident Steven Zachar says he was "in the right place at the right time" to be one of six people who received kidney donations from six healthy donors in a rem...
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Why millennials should care about Medicare right nowFeb 25, 2018 12:00 am - Medicare provides basic health care to one out of six Americans, most of them 65 and older. Even people decades away from retirement, though, should be concerned about C...
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Edward-Elmhurst Health must cut $35 millionFeb 22, 2018 10:00 pm - Edward-Elmhurst Health confirmed Friday it must cut another $35 million from its budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1. The cuts follow a major $92 million a...
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From Venezuela to Elgin, nurse gets Advocate Sherman awardFeb 21, 2018 12:00 am - A bilingual nurse with roots in Venezuela is Nurse of the Year at Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin, where his father and older brother once worked. Ben Castells, 31, w...
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Northwest Community cancer center earns accreditationFeb 12, 2018 10:00 pm - The Commission on Cancer, a quality program of the American College of Surgeons, has granted Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation to the cancer program at Northwes...