Health and Fitness
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Your health: Sunscreen for the commuteAug 29, 2011 6:00 am - Commuting hazard One more thing to worry about: being blasted by ultraviolet rays during your morning commute. In “Sun Hazards in Your Car,” an article in this year...
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Add vaccines to back-to-school list for tweens, teensAug 29, 2011 5:45 am - WASHINGTON — Backpack. Notebooks. Whooping cough shot? If you haven't worried about back-to-school shots since your tween or teen was entering kindergarten, better put v...
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Keeping the right balance as you ageAug 29, 2011 5:45 am - Like any good, self-respecting working parent, I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about balance — how to juggle the opposing forces of my family and my job, n...
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Stretching, relaxation ease back painAug 29, 2011 1:00 am - There’s nothing like pain to motivate you, says Esther Gokhale, when she discusses what set her off on a life of research on aching backs and how to fix them. “I had ve...
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Women skipping mammograms after ending hormone therapyAug 29, 2011 1:00 am - American women who gave up hormone therapy after a study linked the menopause treatment to breast cancer and heart disease also cut back on mammograms, perhaps as a resu...
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Hypnosis used to ease pain, recovery of surgeryAug 29, 2011 1:00 am - LONDON — As the surgeons cut into her neck, Marianne Marquis was thinking of the beach. As she heard the doctors' voices, she was imagining her toes in the sand, the wat...
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Chocolate maintains heart health?Aug 29, 2011 12:00 am - Bloomberg News PARIS — More bad news for those battling a sweet tooth: eating chocolate is good for you. Regular consumption may slash the risk of developing heart disea...
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Unusual invite gives boy with Asperger’s a chance to belongAug 28, 2011 6:00 am - GARY, Ind. — He is about half the age of other students in the room. Yet 13-year-old Noah Egler is completely in his element, wearing powder blue medical scrubs and answ...
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Schaumburg pianist lives dream with musicAug 27, 2011 12:00 am - Being a dwarf is only a small part of Chris Errera's amazing life
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Holy Family to open Pain Center Sept. 1Aug 26, 2011 12:00 am - From migraines to back aches, chronic pain sufferers can find some relief at Holy Family Medical Center’s new Pain Center, which opens Sept. 1 at the Des Plaines hospita...