Health Care
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Warrenville business opens to treat voice, swallowing, and breathingJun 25, 2023 11:00 pm - Good Vibrations Voice Therapy, PLLC is now open in Warrenville. The speech pathology practice partners with patients to improve voice, swallowing and breathing. The busi...
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Room to operate: Ascension Alexian Brothers showing off modernized surgical facilitiesJun 25, 2023 7:00 am - Dan Doherty recalls the recent day when Ascension Alexian Brothers staff walked through the site's four new operating rooms. The Elk Grove Village hospital held an open ...
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Pritzker signs noncitizen health care plan, immediately pauses enrollment
Jun 21, 2023 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Gov. JB Pritzker's administration last week wasted no time exercising new authority granted by lawmakers to limit the number of enrollees in a pair of stat...
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Surgalign to sell medical hardware businessJun 19, 2023 11:00 pm - DEERFIELD - Surgalign Holdings Inc. said Tuesday to sell substantially all of its U.S. medical hardware and biomaterials assets to Xtant Medical Holdings Inc. for $5 mil...
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What if you can't afford long-term care? Here are some options
Jun 18, 2023 6:00 am - As many as 8 in 10 older Americans couldn't afford more than four years in an assisted living facility or two years in a nursing home, according to a 2023 analysis by th...
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Mole-removal scheme nets Lombard doctor 6 months in prisonJun 16, 2023 1:00 am - A former Lombard doctor will spend six months in federal prison after pleading guilty to health care fraud stemming from a mole-removal scheme he concocted to collect mo...
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FDA advisers endorse updating COVID vaccines to target latest omicron strain
Jun 15, 2023 1:00 am - The COVID-19 vaccines are on track for a big recipe change this fall. Today's vaccines still contain the original coronavirus strain, the one that started the pandemic —...
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Advocate fights food insecurity with farmJun 14, 2023 11:00 pm - BARRINGTON — Advocate Health Care launched a new cross-county initiative to reduce food insecurity — and thereby improve health outcomes — for patients in-need across it...
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Walgreens helps in trial of potential cancer testsJun 14, 2023 11:00 pm - DEERFIELD - Walgreens and San Francisco-based Freenome Thursday announced a multiyear relationship to advance clinical studies of Freenome's blood-based tests for the ea...
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Poles hold protests demanding liberalized abortion law after death of pregnant woman
Jun 14, 2023 1:00 am - WARSAW, Poland - Poles demanding a liberalization of the abortion law protested in Warsaw and other Polish cities on Wednesday after a woman who was five months pregnant...