Health Care
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RFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute thatAug 27, 2026 7:39 am - Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly told lawmakers who held the key to his confirmation last year that a 2019 visit to Samoa before a deadly measles outbreak had “ nothing to do with vaccines.” New documents obtained by The Associated Press and The Guardian refute that testimony.
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Endeavor Health partners with District 211 to provide sports medicine services to athletesAug 26, 2026 2:14 pm - Endeavor Health and Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 have launched a new partnership providing sports medicine services and training support to student-athletes at all five district high schools.
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Kaneland High School students exposed to measles, health department confirmsAug 25, 2026 3:26 pm - The Kane County Health Department has identified two locations where people may have been exposed to measles following a confirmed case that was announced Monday.
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Former Aurora engineer convicted of stealing secrets for Chinese companyAug 25, 2026 11:05 am - An engineer for a medical supplies company formerly operating in Aurora has been convicted of federal charges alleging he conspired to steal trade secrets for a Chinese competitor.
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With stalemate’s end, Dundee mental health board releases grant money
Aug 24, 2026 1:49 pm - Thousands of dollars in Dundee Township 708 Mental Health Board grant money, held up by an impasse over the board’s composition, were finally released.
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Abbott Laboratories to pay $670 million to settle cases, claims over its formula for premature babies
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Arlington Heights hosting KidneyMobile on Aug. 27Aug 19, 2026 12:09 pm - The Arlington Heights Health & Human Services Department is partnering with the National Kidney Foundation of Illinois to host the KidneyMobile from noon to 4 p.m. Thursday, August 27, at Lutheran Church of the Cross, 2020 S. Goebbert Road.
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Drug prices have declined sharply, and Trump is taking credit. The reason behind the drop is complex
Aug 18, 2026 7:59 am - President Donald Trump has been taking credit for new federal data that shows U.S. prescription drug prices fell 0.8% in July and are down 3.1% from a year ago, the steepest year-over-year drop since 1963.
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Pediatricians push back against Trump's plan to revamp kids’ vaccinesAug 17, 2026 6:51 am - Local experts offer advice for parents amid a White House push to tear up immunization schedules, split up MMR vaccine.
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Schaumburg Boomers mascot Coop visits kids at St. Alexius HospitalAug 14, 2026 2:41 pm - Coop, the greater prairie chicken mascot of the Schaumburg Boomers baseball team, brought some cheer Friday to pediatric patients at Ascension Saint Alexius Women & Children’s Hospital in Hoffman Estates.