Health and Fitness
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New tax forms to fill out on health insurance coverageJan 18, 2015 6:28 am - WASHINGTON - Be prepared for the tax man to get even more personal this year - with questions about your health insurance. For the first time, you'll have to state wheth...
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Patients turn to shots of sugar to ease joint and muscle painJan 18, 2015 6:00 am - Imagine this: At your next doctor's appointment, instead of advising you to avoid sugar, your physician proposes treating you with sugar. That scenario may not be too sw...
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Medicare pays doctors to coordinate seniors' chronic careJan 18, 2015 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Starting this month, Medicare will pay primary care doctors a monthly fee to better coordinate care for the most vulnerable seniors - those with multip...
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Shark stores sperm for 4 years before having a pup, a recordJan 18, 2015 6:00 am - A brown-banded bamboo shark seems to have fertilized her eggs with sperm she held onto for 45 months, according to researchers at the California Academy of Sciences. Tha...
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Be careful of arsenic levels in riceJan 17, 2015 6:00 am - What do you think is the common ingredient in both conventional and organic rice and rice-based food? It is arsenic. Arsenic is toxic and it is found in high concentrati...
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Obese preschoolers may slim down with Head Start, study saysJan 17, 2015 6:00 am - CHICAGO (AP) — Head Start programs have been shown to help poor children do better in school, but they may also help them fight obesity, a study suggests. During a year ...
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App check: Relaxation is just a few breaths awayJan 17, 2015 6:00 am - One of my proud parent moments occurred a decade ago, when my older daughter, who had learned a breathing technique to help her calm down, taught it to her fifth-grade c...
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Palatine anti-abortion march marks Roe v. Wade anniversaryJan 17, 2015 12:01 am - NorthWest Families for Life's third annual March for Life from St. Theresa Parish in Palatine Saturday was among several Archdiocese of Chicago events protesting the 42n...
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December was a brutal flu season; more may be in storeJan 16, 2015 5:00 am - If you were wondering just how bad this flu season really is, new Gallup data show this past December was one of the worst flu months in years. On average, 4 percent of ...
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Booking a trip to the ER on your smartphone? It's a breezeJan 15, 2015 12:01 am - TRENTON, N.J. - It's like OpenTable for medical appointments. No waiting weeks to see a dermatologist. No sitting for hours in the emergency room. No frantic calls to fi...