Health and Fitness
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Fertility race Saturday in PalatineJun 22, 2012 4:13 pm - The first Illinois Race for the Family to raise funds for families undergoing infertility treatment or pursuing domestic adoption is being held from 8 to 11 a.m. Saturda...
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Mississippi may be first state with no abortion clinicJun 22, 2012 12:56 pm - JACKSON, Miss. — Abortion will still be legal in Mississippi next month. It’s just that women who live there probably won’t be able to get one. Beginning July 1, all ab...
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Park Ridge health care center holds grand opening SundayJun 21, 2012 4:09 pm - Presence Center for Health — a new outpatient health care facility with some of the most advanced technology in all of Chicago’s suburbs — is holding an afternoon of...
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Lombard boy first heart transplant recipient at Lurie HospitalJun 21, 2012 5:30 am - A 5-year-old Lombard boy is said to be doing well as he recovers from heart transplant surgery — the first such operation to take place at the new Lurie Children's Hospi...
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Carpentersville boy's next kidney transplant is todayJun 20, 2012 11:00 pm - Kidney comes from Wheeling man he's never met
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Illinois health centers get $6.5M in federal awardsJun 20, 2012 4:00 pm - Eleven Illinois health centers were awarded grants Wednesday under the Affordable Care Act to extend care to more patients. The Illinois grants total nearly $6.5 million...
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Hoffman Estates honors breast cancer survivorsJun 19, 2012 1:29 pm - To bring attention to breast cancer survivors in Hoffman Estates during National Cancer Survivors Awareness Month, the village is hosting a Pink Tea Celebration from 10 ...
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Quinn: Heat in Illinois could be ‘extremely dangerous’Jun 18, 2012 3:38 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn says heat forecast across Illinois this week could bring “extremely dangerous” conditions for the elderly and children. Quinn on Monday urged Illinoisans ...
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Alexian Brothers fights mental illness — and stigma surrounding itJun 18, 2012 9:38 am - After a four-day stay at Northwest Community Hospital, Patti was supposed to be released. She checked herself into the facility when she began feeling adverse side effec...
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Your health: Potential benefit of delaying having kidsJun 18, 2012 6:00 am - Surprise benefit Fathers who delay having children until they're almost 40 may be passing on the benefit of longer lives to their offspring. The Washington Post rep...