Health and Fitness
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Children’s health: How safe is that holiday gift for your kids?Nov 28, 2025 8:09 am - For many families, gift giving is one of the joys of the holiday season. Unfortunately, not all toys are as safe as they appear. Even popular, well-reviewed toys can pose serious safety risks, including choking or ingestion hazards that may lead to life-threatening complications.
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Ask the doctors: Strong bones aren’t built by calcium aloneNov 28, 2025 8:04 am - Calcium does not act alone in bone remodeling during perimenopause. It is tied to vitamin D, zinc, magnesium, phosphate and vitamin K — more specifically, vitamin K2.
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Patient advocate: New website is a medical library at your fingertipsNov 28, 2025 8:02 am - There’s a lot of medical misinformation out there, much of it promulgated by nonmedical individuals based on nothing more than assumptions and unwarranted conclusions. But what if you could find published, peer-reviewed answers to your medical questions, written in everyday language? Good news. You can!
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Trump administration says lower prices for 15 Medicare drugs will save taxpayers billions
Nov 26, 2025 8:10 pm - Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to slash the Medicare prices for 15 prescription drugs after months of negotiations, reductions that are expected to produce billions in savings for taxpayers and older adults, the Trump administration said.
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‘A rare breed’: At 90, this Arlington Heights runner is an ultramarathon manNov 23, 2025 8:58 am - Gene Bruckert, a 90-year-old Arlington Heights resident, has completed some 300 marathons and 300 ultramarathons since taking up long-distance running in retirement.
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Perimenopause: How to tell the facts from the myths
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Children’s health: When to take your child to the emergency departmentNov 23, 2025 8:56 am - If your child breaks a bone, struggles to breathe or suffers frightening thoughts that tell them life isn't worth living, will you know how to help them? Injuries are the number one cause of death among kids in the U.S., so families need to prepare themselves to act when seconds count.
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‘Eating disorder’ and ‘disordered eating’ are not the sameNov 23, 2025 8:55 am - During the holidays, many families will gather for festive meals. If you pay attention to how and what a tween, teen or young adult is eating, you may detect a pattern that could indicate something is “off” about their approach to food. So that makes this an appropriate time to discuss what constitutes an eating disorder.
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Babies who drank ByHeart formula got sick months before botulism outbreak, parents say
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Olympic gold-medalist Rowdy Gaines has tips if you’re returning to the pool