Health and Fitness
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Talk to your teens about the dangers of new 'bath salts'Oct 10, 2011 6:00 am - Q. I heard a news story about people using bath salts to get high. Can you explain how this is possible? Should my husband and I talk to our two teenagers about this...
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Parents, children can suffer from same skin conditionOct 10, 2011 6:00 am - An upper respiratory infection seemed to have triggered the little girl's tight cough, but other than hearing a mild wheeze, I found the 2-year-old to be in pretty good ...
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Minimal footwear getting a workoutOct 10, 2011 6:00 am - Jane Brodsky desperately wanted to run again. But whenever the D.C. resident attempted to jog, the osteoarthritis in her left leg complained. She was hoping she'd finall...
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‘An action of one is an action of one’Oct 10, 2011 5:00 am - On Sept. 14, at 6:46 p.m., you published an article on an alleged crime detailing an intimate and sensitive incident (“Palatine teen charged with sexual assault”). The a...
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Your health: Go meatless todayOct 10, 2011 1:00 am - Meatless Mondays Meatless Mondays is a grass-roots food movement picking up steam. What started as a public health initiative in 2003 to reduce meat consumption in ...
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Hospitals, churches create healthy partnershipsOct 10, 2011 1:00 am - Two mainstays of the Memphis community — the Methodist Le Bonheur hospital system and nearly 400 local churches — have teamed up for an innovative program that keeps chu...
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Arlington Hts. firefighters 'proud to wear pink'Oct 10, 2011 1:00 am - It was something of a pink-out in front of the main Arlington Heights fire station last week. Members from nearly all of the village departments, as well as firefighters...
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Harper College marks Domestic Violence Awareness WeekOct 09, 2011 12:00 am - Harper College will mark Domestic Violence Awareness Week with an event called “Stand Up Week: Let Your Voice be Heard,” featuring presentations by experts from local so...
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Mabley Center is 'home' to disabled, but many want it to closeOct 09, 2011 12:00 am - Legendary newspaperman Jack Mabley's heart-wrenching columns in the 1950s, exposing a state-run “hellhole,” where human beings were covered in feces, bathed with hoses a...
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Triathlon leaves 74-year-old in good shape for marathonOct 06, 2011 5:00 am - An athlete since childhood, Bob Oury was in his 40s when he heard about this new competition. “Somebody said there was a triathlon, and I said, ‘What's that?' They said,...