Health and Fitness
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Sex safe for heart patients, experts sayFeb 06, 2012 5:00 am - Good news: Sex is safe for most heart patients. If you're healthy enough to walk up two flights of stairs without chest pain or gasping for breath, you can have a love l...
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How to boost your brain power as you ageFeb 06, 2012 12:00 am - Alzheimer's isn't inevitable. Many experts now believe you can prevent or at least delay dementia — even if you have a genetic predisposition. Reducing Alzheimer's risk ...
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Health briefs: ‘Know Your Numbers’ screeningsFeb 06, 2012 12:00 am - ‘Know Your Numbers’ screenings Advocate Condell Medical Center is offering “Know Your Numbers” screenings to determine baseline health statistics. Screenings will m...
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Your health: Point well-takenFeb 06, 2012 12:00 am - Acupuncture help If the idea of being poked with needles sounds less than appealing, acupuncture may not be for you. But according to this month's Good Housekeeping...
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A push for family input to detect dementia earlierFeb 05, 2012 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON — Alexis McKenzie’s mother had mild dementia, but things sounded OK when she phoned home: Dad was with her, finishing his wife’s sentences as they talked abou...
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New law encourages reporting drug overdosesFeb 05, 2012 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — A new Illinois law is meant to encourage people to seek help if they or friends suffer a drug overdose. The law says people who seek medical treatment for ...
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Too many kids breathe others' smoke in cars: CDCFeb 05, 2012 10:00 pm - Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list. In t...
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Neighbors oppose possible group home in quiet Palatine neighborhoodFeb 05, 2012 6:45 am - Tucked away from two major traffic corridors is a quiet Palatine neighborhood with a park, a pond and a Sikh temple surrounded by relatively new, luxury houses. Neighbor...
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Illinois Medicaid official sees ‘crisis’Feb 05, 2012 6:45 am - Given the state’s financial predicament, lawmakers will need to consider every possible strategy for cutting the state’s Medicaid budget this year, Illinois Department o...
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Rate of post-injury survival rises in Afghan warFeb 05, 2012 5:09 am - WASHINGTON — There has probably never been a war in which there has been as much on-the-job improvement in the care of the wounded than there has been in the United Stat...