Health Care
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Mpox has been declared a public health emergency in Africa. What is it and what’s the WHO doing?
Aug 14, 2024 1:00 pm - LONDON — The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared this week that the increasing spread of mpox across the continent is a health emergency, warning t...
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Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, being turned away from ERs despite federal law
Aug 12, 2024 1:05 pm - WASHINGTON — Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed h...
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With new federal waiver, Illinois expanding Medicaid to nonmedical services
Aug 12, 2024 10:37 am - Many people enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program soon will be eligible to receive a host of nonmedical services that could improve their overall health, including hou...
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Final piece of structural steel added at Lurie Children’s new Outpatient Center in SchaumburgAug 12, 2024 9:55 am - Skender, as general contractor, today announced the placement of the final piece of structural steel on the Schaumburg Outpatient, Primary Care and Infusion Center, located at 1895 Arbor Glen Blvd., Schaumburg, Illinois.
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The U.S. government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button
Aug 12, 2024 7:43 am - In the name of consumer protection, a slew of U.S. federal agencies are working to make it easier for Americans to click the unsubscribe button for unwanted memberships and recurring payment services.
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Hearing on senior group home in Schaumburg postponed to Sept. 18Aug 08, 2024 1:12 pm - A Schaumburg plan commission hearing on the proposed conversion of a single-family home into a group home for the care of infirm seniors was postponed from Wednesday to Sept. 18 at the applicant’s request.
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Illinois further expands reproductive health care protections
Aug 07, 2024 4:54 pm - Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed multiple bills expanding reproductive rights in Illinois on Wednesday, including codifying a federal law that allows medical professionals to pe...
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U.S. abortion numbers have risen slightly since Roe was overturned, study finds
Aug 07, 2024 10:36 am - The number of women getting abortions in the U.S. actually went up in the first three months of 2024 compared with before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, a repor...
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Company wants to put senior group home in existing single-family house in SchaumburgAug 06, 2024 4:23 pm - Schaumburg plan commissioners Wednesday will review a proposed adaptation of a single-family home on the west side of town to a group home to house up to six elderly and infirm residents.
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Advocate Health Care opens new outpatient center in LakemoorAug 05, 2024 9:02 am - Advocate Health Care recently opened a new outpatient center in Lakemoor. The facility, at 27655 Illinois Route 120, fills a critical need in a growing community and exp...