Health and Fitness
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Your health: Self-help adviceJan 15, 2011 10:00 pm - Self-help advice American women who pick up one of January's self-help magazines will be assaulted with advice for living better and losing weight in 2011. Self su...
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Window for flu shots closingJan 14, 2011 12:00 am - WASHINGTON — Flu season’s arrived with lots of coughing and fever and it’s sure to spread. The good news: There’s still plenty of vaccine for procrastinators. But don’t ...
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Researcher finds easy solution for test anxietyJan 12, 2011 10:00 pm - SEATTLE — A simple writing exercise can relieve students of test anxiety and may help them get better scores than their less anxious classmates, a new study has found. ...
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South Barrington Parks holds free health fairJan 12, 2011 10:00 pm - The South Barrington Park District, in conjunction with Alexian Brothers Hospital Network, is offering a free Health Fair for the community from 8-11 a.m. Saturday, Jan....
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Chicago to test drinking water for chromium 6Jan 11, 2011 10:00 pm - City officials say Chicago will begin routine testing of its tap water for a form of the heavy metal chromium linked in recent studies to stomach cancer. Officials annou...
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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...