Health and Fitness
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Sinusitis? Nasal irrigation might be the cureJan 23, 2012 12:00 am - Q. Every winter I come down with sinusitis. Is there anything I can do to prevent it? A. A lot of people suffer from periodic sinus infections (sinusitis). I'm one ...
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Your health: Should we believe food claims?Jan 23, 2012 12:00 am - Truths or myths Is coffee good for you, or bad? Robert J. Davis, a health journalist and professor, takes on this question and many other food-related truths and my...
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More young people having strokesJan 22, 2012 11:00 pm - Why would a relatively young, seemingly healthy person like U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk have a stroke? It happens all the time, local doctors say, and while Kirk is 52, the Cent...
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Golden retrievers offer clue to human skin diseaseJan 22, 2012 5:05 am - Thanks to inbreeding, dogs are more like us than ever before. Take the golden retriever. In the past few years, the breed has begun to suffer from one of a cluster of ra...
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Trends large and small bubbling in spa industryJan 21, 2012 5:58 am - NEW YORK — From color therapy and medi-pedis to frigid blizzard rooms and swankier eyebrow bars, fresh trends are surfacing around the world in the $60 billion spa indus...
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LA considers requiring porn stars use condomsJan 21, 2012 5:37 am - LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council is poised to give its final approval to a controversial ordinance that would require actors in adult films to use condoms. Th...
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Poll Vault: Has the norovirus struck in your household?Jan 19, 2012 11:00 pm - As my colleague Madhu Krishnamurthy has written recently, the norovirus is circulating through the suburbs. More than 100 customers fell ill after eating at a restaurant...
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Shelter Inc. presents health/stress seminarJan 19, 2012 11:00 pm - Shelter Inc. will host a free three-hour seminar “Living Better, Working Better, Feeling Better,” 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the Schaumburg Township Dis...
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Chef Paula Deen hid diabetes, pushed high-fat foodJan 16, 2012 11:00 pm - NEW YORK — Paula Deen, the Southern belle of butter and heavy cream, makes no apologies for waiting three years to disclose she has diabetes while continuing to dish up ...
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Your health: Lower dosage for infantsJan 16, 2012 5:00 am - New infant dosages The ultimate goal of manufacturers that are offering new, less-concentrated infant versions of the painkiller acetaminophen is to provide sick ba...