Health and Fitness
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'Killer' wasps not really all that dangerousAug 01, 2012 5:00 pm - If you feel a 2-inch wasp with reddish, transparent wings bumping its head against your body this summer, it might be a killer. Luckily — unless you're a cicada — there...
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Mt. Prospect asked to Think Pink on Aug. 11Aug 01, 2012 8:06 am - On Saturday, Aug. 11, the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure will have its annual day in Mount Prospect. The walkers will enter Mount Prospect at Golf Road and Elmhu...
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Des Plaines road closure for cancer prevention walk comingJul 31, 2012 4:32 pm - Des Plaines police will close Central Road on Friday, Aug. 10 for the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Cancer Walk to Fight Breast Cancer to ensure the safety of its several hundred...
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Rush to be in federal nurse-training programJul 31, 2012 4:11 pm - Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center is among five hospitals chosen to participate in a new training program for advanced practice registered nurses. U.S. Health and...
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Free senior food market in SchaumburgJul 31, 2012 3:42 pm - The Senior Program at the Schaumburg Barn has teamed up with the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the food bank that serves Cook County, to start a free food market for ...
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State fines Lake Zurich District 95 because of elementary school asbestos management planJul 31, 2012 11:02 am - Lake Zurich Unit District 95 is disputing state allegations that May Whitney Elementary School had violations in its asbestos management plan. The district received noti...
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Schaumburg library hosts blood drive Aug. 8Jul 31, 2012 10:43 am - The Schaumburg Township District Library is once again joining forces with LifeSource to help replenish dangerously low blood supplies. A blood drive is scheduled from 1...
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Dist. 214 cafeteria meals to get nutrition boostJul 30, 2012 10:38 am - Beginning this fall, Northwest Suburban High School District 214 will implement the National School Lunch Program’s new nutrition standards that are taking effect across...
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New approaches in treating kids with brain tumorsJul 30, 2012 6:00 am - MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Doctors noticed long ago that although children afflicted with the most common type of malignant brain tumor were getting the same treatment, the outcom...
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Eating disorders exact a toll on older women, tooJul 30, 2012 6:00 am - Molly Woolsey was 19 when her anorexia was diagnosed. Once she passed her 20s, the St. Paul woman said, passers-by assumed she had cancer or another terminal illness bec...