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When is it time to cut back on your prescription medicine?

By Ranit Mishori The Washington Post
Feb 04, 2017 6:00 am - There was nothing unique about that patient encounter except that it was my first appointment of 2017 and everyone at the office was buzzing about their New Year's resol...
New aortic valve system at Central DuPage offers less invasive alternative to traditional open heart surgery

Kim Waterman, Northwestern Medicine
Feb 02, 2017 10:00 pm - Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (CDH) is the first hospital in Chicago's western suburbs to offer a recently approved less invasive, "sutureless" or "rapid...
Harpist soothes the souls at Libertyville hospital

By Gilbert R. Boucher II
Feb 01, 2017 12:00 am - The hospital nursery was calm and mellow while harpist Joanne Glover played "Let It Be" on a folk harp. Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville launched the The...
Pfister named Lake County Health Department chief

By Mick Zawislak
Feb 01, 2017 12:00 am - Mark Pfister, a veteran of the Lake County Health Department and interim director since June, has been named its executive director. The appointment by the Lake County B...
Family Health Partnership Clinic brings healthcare to the homeless

Submitted by Family Health Partnership Clinic
Jan 31, 2017 10:00 pm - Family Health Partnership Clinic has partnered with McHenry County PADS, a program of Pioneer Center for Human Services, to bring basic health care services direct to in...
E-cigarettes: Bad for Your Heart

Monifa Thomas, Cook County Health & Hospitals System
Jan 31, 2017 10:00 pm - Habitual e-cigarette use has been found to increase risk factors linked to negative cardiovascular effects, according to a study published in the journal JAMA Cardiology...
Lake Barrington teen eager to start 3,300-mile bike ride for charity

By Doug T. Graham
Jan 30, 2017 4:36 am - One might assume that the question on the mind of someone facing a 3,300-mile, cross-country cycling trip would be "will my body hold up?" But for Jan Gierlach, the Lak...
Race for the Cure is moving to Montrose for 20th anniversary

Submitted by Komen Chicagoland
Jan 29, 2017 10:00 pm - Susan G. Komen Chicagoland's Mother's Day Race for the Cure will celebrate its 20th anniversary Sunday, May 14, with moves from Grant Park and Lombard to an iconic lakef...
Eight things siblings of children with special needs struggle with

By Jamie Davis Smith The Washington Post
Jan 29, 2017 6:30 am - Having a sibling with special needs is a reality many children are born into, including my three typically developing children. Of all the things my children experience ...
Why does it take so long to recover from pneumonia?

By Jill U. Adams The Washington Post
Jan 29, 2017 6:30 am - I was diagnosed with pneumonia in October. The doctor told me to rest, really rest. She told me to expect to feel better after a couple of days of antibiotics, but that ...

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