Health and Fitness
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Grief & healing: A handyman and a listJan 20, 2024 9:30 am - My most recent household repair challenge was a hall closet door off the tracks. An accordion type door that hangs by wheels on a track. Such folding doors are rather fra...
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How to stay healthy when you are not a morning personJan 20, 2024 8:00 am - Have trouble staying alert in the a.m. hours? Feeling sluggish during the early part of the workday? Did you stay up too late last night because you had trouble falling a...
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How to help a college-bound student who has a disabilityJan 20, 2024 7:30 am - It’s January. By now, high school juniors and seniors planning to attend college — along with their parents — are usually deep into the search process. Maybe you visited ...
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How to safely keep your child warm during a power outageJan 20, 2024 6:30 am - When the power goes out, it can throw off all of your family's normal routines. If the power failure is in winter, the danger of extreme cold can add to the problem. Youn...
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Cold hands, warm heart: How getting outside can cure your wintertime bluesJan 19, 2024 12:41 pm - The long, dark days of winter can be tough on mental and physical health, but experts say braving the cold can help. “In wintertime, sometimes people feel isolated. One o...
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Hines VA Hospital program to be adopted nationwideJan 18, 2024 10:22 am - Department of Veterans Affairs medical officials visited Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital on Jan. 10, to learn new techniques used by the hospital’s podiatry service. The gro...
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Masking returns to area hospitals, health centers with rise in COVID-19 and other viruses, but requirements not universalJan 16, 2024 6:00 pm - A spike in COVID-19, flu and RSV cases is bringing back a familiar sight in regional hospitals and healthcare facilities — masks. But unlike universal masking policies du...
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Downers Grove school districts plan to make ‘immediate impact’ with enhanced mental health services
Jan 16, 2024 2:19 pm - Community High School District 99 in Downers Grove and Downers Grove Grade School District 58 are among a few dozen institutions across the state set to receive grant fun...
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Power skating into fitness: Olympian and TFI bring together physical therapy and athletic trainingJan 16, 2024 7:13 am - When an Olympic athlete talks, you listen. “There’s not too many places that do it quite like us,” Olympic speed skater Brian Hansen said about the health and wellness ce...
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Wheaton student wins National Radon Video ContestJan 15, 2024 12:06 pm - January is Radio Action Month and today, the American Lung Association and the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors announced the winners of the 2023 Nationa...