Health and Fitness
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Your health: Lose the lensesOct 18, 2010 1:00 am - Avoid scary eyes As Halloween approaches, you may be thinking about finishing off your costume with zebra-striped or glow-in-the-dark decorative contact lenses or m...
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Eye problems may stem from haircutOct 18, 2010 1:00 am - Q. I have an unusual problem. When I got my last haircut two months ago, the stylist accidentally got dozens and dozens of fine hairs in my eyes. I have dry, sensiti...
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Journal your way to fitness successOct 18, 2010 1:00 am - We've all heard the phrase “you can't know where you're going until you know where you've been. This is especially true in changing your lifestyle habits like losing wei...
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Three people with disfiguring injuries learn to live with their new looksOct 18, 2010 1:00 am - On Oct. 5, 1992, at 5:30 p.m., Louise Ashby was driving in Los Angeles. Newly arrived in Hollywood from Great Britain, the young actress was ready to seek her chance at ...
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Suburban high schools giving EKGs to studentsOct 15, 2010 11:00 pm - EKGs help detect hidden heart problems
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Hero pilot out to save more lives in his fight against cancerOct 14, 2010 11:00 pm - If brain cancer patient Denny Fitch of St. Charles ever wonders whether he can cheat death, all he has to do is look at the old news coverage of United Flight 232's fier...
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Saturday Soapbox: Embarrassment in Grafton TownshipOct 14, 2010 11:00 pm - What an embarrassment: You'd think that repeated public exposure in the newspaper would encourage leaders in Grafton Township to at least try to portray a better pu...
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In U.S., Hispanics outlive whites, blacks by yearsOct 12, 2010 11:00 pm - ATLANTA — U.S. Hispanics can expect to outlive whites by more than two years and blacks by more than seven, government researchers say in a startling report that is the ...
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5K event will bring attention to epilepsyOct 11, 2010 11:00 pm - The second annual Paul's Run for Epilepsy will take place Sunday, Oct. 17, in Prospect Heights. The run is organized by the family of Paul Schmidt, a Prospect Heights m...
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Study finds overtesting in late-stage cancer patientsOct 11, 2010 11:00 pm - CHICAGO— If you knew you had one year to live, would you have medical tests you didn't need? Turns out a surprising number of patients with late-stage cancer get useless...