Health and Fitness
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Treating chronic illness with cough syrup: Life in the coverage gapJan 26, 2015 4:45 am - MIAMI — Genesis Matos Rodriguez wakes at 6:30 a.m. and shuffles to the kitchen, where garlic ropes hang on beige walls. Air cleansers, her grandmother calls them. Her mo...
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Americans are too optimistic about their long-term care optionsJan 26, 2015 4:45 am - WASHINGTON — Americans are strongly underestimating their future needs for long-term care, a potentially costly oversight that could hurt them in their retirement years....
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Your health: Is work making you fat?Jan 26, 2015 4:45 am - Weighty matters: Is work making you fat? Are you packing on pounds while climbing the corporate ladder? If so, you're in good company: in a 2013 Harris Interactiv...
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Lake County Medical Reserve Corps offers training for volunteersJan 26, 2015 12:01 am - Lake County residents seeking a volunteer opportunity with free training for widespread emergency situations may want to join the Lake County Medical Reserve Corps (MRC)...
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Become a Reserve Corps volunteer:Jan 26, 2015 12:01 am - Lake County residents who want to volunteer can receive free training for widespread emergency situations by joining the Lake County Medical Reserve Corps. A medical bac...
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Fox Valley dentists offer free dental care in FebruaryJan 25, 2015 10:00 pm - Program offers free dental care in February
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Young leukemia patients, families enjoy a respite from treatmentJan 25, 2015 10:00 pm - Matthew Pattison of Barrington finished up treatment for his leukemia in October, but you would never know it from the way he ran around a carnival party last weekend, c...
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Decades after 'Jumbo Janet,' 63-year-old drops 170 poundsJan 25, 2015 6:37 am - That childhood moment when Jan Wilke realized she was a fat girl remains painful enough to rekindle the 63-year-old Grayslake grandmother's tears. Just a kid having fun,...
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She thought she was a savvy doc; but then she went into laborJan 25, 2015 6:00 am - I had been at the hospital for two days in induced labor, unable to get out of bed or eat, tethered to a labor-inducing oxytocin drip. The doctors started to talk about ...
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Study: Fewer struggle with medical costs as coverage growsJan 25, 2015 6:00 am - WASHINGTON — Not only do more Americans have health insurance, but the number struggling with medical costs has dropped since President Barack Obama's health care law ex...