Health Care
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Flu is on the rise while RSV infections may be peaking, U.S. health officials say
Dec 02, 2023 10:00 pm - NEW YORK - Flu is picking up steam while RSV lung infections that can hit kids and older people hard may be peaking, U.S. health officials said Friday. COVID-19, though,...
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Free at-home COVID-19 rapid testsDec 01, 2023 12:00 am - Every U.S. household is eligible to order an additional four free at-home COVID-19 rapid tests delivered directly to their home. If you did not order tests this fall, yo...
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U.S. life expectancy rose last year, but it remains below its pre-pandemic level
Nov 29, 2023 12:00 am - NEW YORK - U.S. life expectancy rose last year - by more than a year - but still isn't close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2022 rise was mainly due to...
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France to ban smoking on beaches as it seeks to avoid 75,000 tobacco-related deaths per year
Nov 28, 2023 12:00 am - PARIS - France will ban smoking on all beaches, in public parks, forests and some other public areas as part of a national anti-tobacco plan presented by the health mini...
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Northwest Community's new outpatient medical center opens in SchaumburgNov 21, 2023 12:00 am - Northwest Community Healthcare this week opened its new outpatient care center in Schaumburg, consolidating the services of two former 40-year-old buildings. The three-s...
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DuPage Care Center recognized as one of the best nursing homes in the nationNov 21, 2023 12:00 am - The Kenneth Moy DuPage Care Center recently was named a top nursing home by a national publication. U.S. News and World Report listed the care center as high-performing ...
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Hearing will take place in religious leaders' lawsuit challenging Missouri abortion ban
Nov 16, 2023 12:00 am - ST. LOUIS - A St. Louis judge on Thursday will hear arguments in a lawsuit challenging Missouri's abortion ban on the grounds that lawmakers who passed the measure impos...
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Progress in childhood cancer has stalled for Blacks and Hispanics, report says
Nov 16, 2023 12:00 am - Advances in childhood cancer are a success story in modern medicine. But in the past decade, those strides have stalled for Black and Hispanic youth, opening a gap in de...
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Forward Focus Concierge Medicine coming to Northfield in JanuaryNov 15, 2023 10:00 pm - Forward Focus Concierge Medicine, an internal medicine practice, is pleased to announce the opening of a second office at 1622 Willow Road, near the intersection of Will...
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The Biden administration is slow to act as millions are booted off Medicaid, advocates say
Nov 14, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Up to 30 million of the poorest Americans could be purged from the Medicaid program, many the result of error-ridden state reviews that poverty experts say ...