Health and Fitness
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Why 253 Indian Prairie school supporters are becoming charity runnersMar 09, 2016 12:00 am - The biggest charity team in the Naperville Marathon has more than doubled, and that figures to be good news for students in some Naperville and Aurora schools. Indi...
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Your definition of happiness depends on where you liveMar 08, 2016 4:57 am - Even though she is still healthy and lively, Mrs. Xie has already prepared the clothes she will be buried in. An 86-year-old Chinese woman who lives in Dongshan, a city ...
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Device lets partially paralyzed actor walk for 'Richard III'Mar 08, 2016 12:00 am - Actor/director Michael Patrick Thornton is doing something he hasn't done onstage in 13 years: He's walking. For the first time since spinal strokes left him partially p...
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Rare stem cell treatment provides hope for paralyzed hockey player, familyMar 08, 2016 12:00 am - A junior league hockey player who suffered a severe spinal cord injury last month in a game at the Sears Centre Arena is receiving a rare adult stem cell treatment that ...
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Aunt Flo visiting? Many women still can't talk openly about their periods and that mattersMar 07, 2016 4:57 am - Despite all the social and professional advancements for women, the monthly period is still treated as a taboo. Because of this persisting social stigma, women will surr...
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Study: Transgender children allowed to live openly fare wellMar 07, 2016 4:48 am - Young transgender children allowed to live openly as the gender they identify with fared as well psychologically as other kids in a small study that suggests parental su...
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Online behavioral therapy is still in its infancyMar 07, 2016 4:45 am - Q: I've been looking into cognitive behavioral therapy to help with my anxiety. It would be convenient to do this therapy from home and, surprisingly, there seem to be m...
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Five things you need to know about this depressing new report on ovarian cancerMar 07, 2016 4:45 am - Of all the "women's cancers," ovarian is among the most diabolical. A new, congressionally mandated report by the Institute of Medicine spells out, sometimes in unnervin...
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Chocolate is brain food. Who knew?Mar 07, 2016 4:45 am - In the mid 1970s, psychologist Merrill Elias began tracking the cognitive abilities of more than a thousand people in the state of New York. The goal was fairly specific...
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End may be near for Lake County's Winchester House nursing homeMar 07, 2016 4:40 am - The private company that operates the Winchester House nursing home has plans to close the county-owned facility in Libertyville and build something new in Mundelein. If...