Health Care
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Arlington Heights hospital event honors babies lostOct 01, 2017 1:00 am - Jake Gurvis could feel in his gut that something was wrong when he was pulled out of class and sent to the school social worker's office last November. His brother, Liam...
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Exicure completes reverse merger, closes $20M in financingSep 28, 2017 1:00 am - SKOKIE — Exicure Inc. has closed a $20 million private placement financing and completed a reverse merger with Max-1 Acquisition Corp. Following the reverse merger trans...
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Illinois governor agrees to allow Medicaid for abortionsSep 28, 2017 1:00 am - Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that Gov. Bruce Rauner had already signed the legislation. CHICAGO - Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner ended months of ...
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'Obamacare' survives; GOP concedes on last-gasp repeal trySep 26, 2017 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — “Obamacare” lives on. Senate Republicans, short of votes, abandoned their latest and possibly final attempt to kill the health care law Tuesday, just ahead ...
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DuPage Medical Group launches Physician Catalyst ProgramSep 26, 2017 1:00 am - DOWNERS GROVE — DuPage Medical Group announced its first signee for the newly established resident recruitment initiative called the DMG Catalyst Program. Designed to a...
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Sensory rooms calm patients at Northwest Community HospitalSep 25, 2017 11:00 pm - Two sensory rooms have been added to the Northwest Community Hospital's Emergency Department to improve patient experience for individuals who are developmentally disabl...
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Heroin, opioid detox just the start of recovery, not the cureSep 25, 2017 5:30 am - For all the benefits of making medically monitored detox more readily available, the process means nothing if the patient leaves and takes a pill, snorts a line or shoot...
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Demand for detox in suburban hospitals rises as opioid crisis worsensSep 23, 2017 1:00 am - In one wing of the fifth floor of Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove, the hand sanitizer dispensers are in the hall instead of inside each room. ...
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Program for developmentally disabled adults coming to Hoffman EstatesSep 21, 2017 1:00 am - As it nears its 50th anniversary, the Riverwoods-based Center for Enriched Living will bring its adult day program for people with developmental disabilities to a new lo...
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Lawsuit claims St. Jude acted slow on defective heart device recallSep 20, 2017 1:00 am - A class-action lawsuit has been filed against St. Jude Medical and parent company Abbott Laboratories, claiming St. Jude failed to act quickly on a defect that led to a ...