Health and Fitness
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Illinois agency, others meet to talk radonJan 11, 2011 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Illinois officials want to raise awareness about a leading cause of lung cancer. And it's not smoking. It's radon. Radon is a colorless, odorless radioact...
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Carle Foundation to test head-cooling systemJan 11, 2011 10:00 pm - URBANA — Keeping a cool head has always been a good thing in emergencies, and now neurosurgeons at the Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana will have a chance to find ou...
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Lilly, Boehringer collaborate on diabetes drugsJan 10, 2011 10:00 pm - INDIANAPOLIS — Eli Lilly will pay Boehringer Ingelheim $387.4 million and collaborate with the German drugmaker to develop diabetes drugs with the U.S. pharmaceutical c...
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Health care trade show coming back to ChicagoJan 10, 2011 10:00 pm - Chicago has won back a major health care trade show expected to draw about 30,000 attendees and generate an estimated $33 million in direct spending. Mayor Richard Daley...
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Detecting early Alzheimer's study seeks subjectsJan 10, 2011 10:00 pm - The first national study on detecting Alzheimer's disease before substantial memory loss occurs is seeking participants. Northwestern University researchers want to enro...
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Study: Spacing babies close may raise autism riskJan 09, 2011 10:00 pm - Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children. Children b...
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Study: Spacing babies close may raise autism riskJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - CHICAGO — Close birth spacing may put a second-born child at higher risk for autism, suggests a preliminary study based on more than a half-million California children. ...
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Local fitness pro creates workout DVDJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - • Geneva resident Leslie Grosshauser, a fitness professional for more than 25 years, has created a new workout DVD called “The SWAT Team Workout” with four members of th...
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Taking more medications not the answerJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Last week, I read an interesting article about health care. The author believed the problems with health care, including rising costs and the increased incidence of many...
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Sarcoidosis affects organs in unseen waysJan 08, 2011 10:00 pm - Q. My wife was diagnosed with multi-organ sarcoidosis. It has caused a third-degree heart block. It has been identified in her lungs, brain, liver, lymph nodes and h...