Health and Fitness
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Teen drunken driving drops as gas prices riseOct 02, 2012 1:39 pm - Drunken driving among U.S. teens fell 54 percent in the past two decades, a trend helped by laws to curb underage alcohol consumption and higher gas prices keeping high ...
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‘Genius grant’ of $500,000 for Glenbard West alumnaOct 02, 2012 1:34 pm - Bioengineer Melody Swartz got a surprise phone call three weeks ago informing her she had been selected to receive a “genius grant” from the John D. and Catherine T. Mac...
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Screwdriver sale raises funds to fight cancerOct 01, 2012 4:23 pm - SKIL Power Tools, based in Mount Prospect, is selling a pink screwdriver to help the fight against breast cancer. Ten percent of the price of every pink iXO Palm-Sized ...
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Lake County Family YMCA hosts second 5K Walk/Run on Oct. 6Oct 01, 2012 1:39 pm - Participants will get some needed exercise in the fresh air while helping expand youth fitness options in the community as Lake County Family YMCA hosts its 2nd Annual 5...
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Doctors, specialists play golf for kidney foundationOct 01, 2012 1:36 pm - Submitted by National Kidney Foundation of Illinois On Wednesday, Sept. 12, 70 nephrologists and transplant professionals from the Chicago area hit the fairways to raise...
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Villa Park expo to help physically disabled improve accessibilityOct 01, 2012 11:00 am - After last year's Mobility Expo and Conference in Villa Park, Cindy Shaw, owner of the Home for Life Advantage home modification company, spent another two hours talking...
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Long-distance care questions loom as boomers ageOct 01, 2012 6:15 am - In a crisis, the highway seems to stretch out forever. Robyn Miller’s loved ones live in Pinole, almost 70 miles southwest of Sacramento, Calif., an 80-minute drive on a...
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Early isolation may impair brain connections laterOct 01, 2012 6:14 am - During the 1980s, thousands of infants in Romanian orphanages spent up to 20 hours a day lying untouched in their cribs, deprived of human contact. As they grew up, neur...
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New approach to the way school lunches are madeOct 01, 2012 6:05 am - For years, Brenda Kovacs has been head cafeteria worker for Quaker Valley Middle School in Sewickley, Pa., but her job isn’t the same as it was a few months ago. As usua...
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Bizarre tumor case may spur custom cancer careOct 01, 2012 6:00 am - It's a medical nightmare: a 24-year-old man endures 350 surgeries since childhood to remove growths that keep coming back in his throat and have spread to his lungs, thr...