Health and Fitness
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Pritzker rescinding mask rule for fully vaccinated residentsMay 17, 2021 1:00 am - Illinois is aligning its mask rules to reflect recent U.S. Centers for Disease Control guidelines that people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 don't need face c...
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After two-day spike, COVID-19 deaths in Illinois declineMay 16, 2021 1:00 am - After a two-day spike that saw the highest death toll from COVID-19 in more than two months, fatalities caused by the coronavirus were cut nearly in half Sunday, state h...
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Sleep hygiene first step to getting needed restMay 15, 2021 11:00 pm - Q: Even before the pandemic, I had trouble with sleep. It's hard to fall asleep and to stay asleep. I don't want to use any pills or medicines. Are there nondrug approac...
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Check for ticks to avoid diseaseMay 15, 2021 11:00 pm - Q: I read about a family whose little girl got paralyzed by a tick. How does that happen? There are a lot of ticks where we live, and even though we're careful, somebody...
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9 tips for being a smart health care consumerMay 15, 2021 11:00 pm - Customer service is all the rage in the health care industry. Hospitals and doctors' practices finally realized that their patients are also customers, and customers vot...
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Twin doctors battle entrenched racism in medicineMay 15, 2021 11:00 pm - They were whip-smart students from the side of town with unpaved streets and no sidewalks, twin sisters excluded from the gifted track because they were Black. A comment...
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COVID-19 vaccines and children — what to knowMay 15, 2021 11:00 pm - Now that the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for children ages 12-15, we know parents are likely to have questions. Broadening the population of vacci...
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CNN's Sanjay Gupta worries about a muddled pandemic message
May 15, 2021 7:30 am - NEW YORK — At this stage in the pandemic, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta is concerned that Americans are not getting clear enough messages about what they should or shouldn't be...
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Liz Weston: You may be entitled to free health insurance now
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Feelings of grief over family separationMay 14, 2021 11:00 pm - A perceptive reader alerted me to a problem I'm sure many families face in one way or another - sadness, even grief, over family that live far away. Because sometimes it...