Health and Fitness
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Facebook to make it easier to become organ donorMay 01, 2012 10:00 am - Facebook wants to help you share your organs. Users in the United States and the U.K. can enroll as organ donors via links to official registries on the world's biggest...
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Newborns with drug withdrawal risingApr 30, 2012 10:25 pm - Weaning infants from drugs can take months and often requires continuous hospitalization
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Readers cheer on the Fittest LosersApr 30, 2012 4:38 pm - Julie Hubbard has some words of encouragement for the Fittest Losers: “Push until the very end … then just keep on pushing! You guys CAN do it!” Hubbard will receive a $...
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Your health: Should you weigh yourself every day?Apr 30, 2012 6:00 am - Scaling back? Should you step on that scale every day? Just once a week? Or keep it tucked away all together? Lavinia Rodriguez, a psychologist and expert in weight...
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Get your cardio while building muscle with weightsApr 30, 2012 6:00 am - This month's workout consists of two strength-training circuits. The first circuit is a lighter round more focused on higher reps, while the second circuit is a heavy ro...
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Add kidneys to list of things that can be recycledApr 30, 2012 6:00 am - It turns out you can recycle just about anything these days — even kidneys and other organs donated for transplants. Just ask Ray Fearing of Arlington Heights and Erwin ...
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Push to reduce medical spending may mean fewer testsApr 30, 2012 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — Old checklist for doctors: order that test, write that prescription. New checklist for doctors: first ask yourself if the patient really needs it. Nine medi...
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How to get ready for a good night's sleepApr 30, 2012 6:00 am - How would you rate your sleeping habits? Hopefully, favorably, considering we spend about a third of our life sleeping and about half the population deals with sleep iss...
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Disparities continue in health care costsApr 30, 2012 6:00 am - What do hospitals charge to remove an appendix? The startling answer is that it could be the same as the price of a refrigerator — or a house. It's a common, straightfor...
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Huge decrease in measles deaths, WHO study findsApr 30, 2012 6:00 am - LONDON — The number of measles deaths worldwide has apparently dropped by about three-quarters over a decade, according to a new study by the World Health Organization a...