Health Care
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Abbott to buy medical test maker Alere for $5.8BFeb 01, 2016 12:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Abbott Laboratories will buy Alere for $4.8 billion as it tries to expand its medical-testing business. The deal is worth $5.8 billion when restricted st...
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Deadline for health insurance enrollment is tonight
Jan 31, 2016 6:00 am - Sunday night is the sign-up deadline for subsidized private health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law. Administration officials say the deadline i...
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501st Legion brings smiles at Edward HospitalJan 28, 2016 5:00 am - Pediatric patients at Naperville's Edward Hospital had at least 501 reasons to smile on a recent January morning. That's because members of two charitable groups - the 5...
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Edward-Elmhurst re-ups to sponsor Naperville race through 2018Jan 20, 2016 12:00 am - Edward-Elmhurst Health will continue to sponsor the distance-running race established in 2013 in Naperville with an agreement announced Tuesday that lasts through 2018. ...
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Schaumburg to host blood drive Jan. 28Jan 20, 2016 12:00 am - The village of Schaumburg will host a community blood drive in recognition of National Blood Donor Month from 3:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, at The Barn, 231 Civic...
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Constable: New baby smell brings happiness this grim JanuaryJan 18, 2016 12:00 am - The grief we might feel at the demise of David Bowie, Alan Rickman or Glenn Frey serves as an appetizer for the heartache inflicted by the deaths of loved ones, co-worke...
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Medical marijuana shops: We need more customersJan 17, 2016 5:30 am - All the trappings of the Buffalo Grove business are in place: bulletproof walls, product locked away in a vault, high-end paintings and welcoming pharmacists. There's ju...
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Advocate to acquire 56 Walgreens clinicsJan 11, 2016 4:00 am - A unit of Downers Grove-based Advocate Health Care is expected to announce today that it has agreed to acquire 56 area Healthcare Clinics from Deerfield-based Walgreens....
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Blood drives in Palatine, SchaumburgJan 10, 2016 12:00 am - January is National Blood Donor Month, and several blood donation drives are scheduled in the Northwest suburbs over the coming weeks. Among them are ones from 8:30 a.m....
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Hoffman Estates blood drive Jan. 8Jan 05, 2016 12:00 am - The village of Hoffman Estates will hold a Community Blood Donor Drive from noon to 3 p.m. on Friday, January 8, at the Hoffman Estates Village Hall, 1900 Hassell Road. ...