Health and Fitness
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Flu shots for veterans:Oct 16, 2014 1:01 am - The Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center is offering free flu vaccinations Saturday, Oct. 18, from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the North Chicago campus, Buildin...
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Chicago hospital trains hospital workers for EbolaOct 16, 2014 1:01 am - With hospital workers increasingly in the spotlight of concern over the spread of the Ebola virus, a Chicago hospital held a training session Thursday for a team of medi...
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Celebration marks opening of Round Lake High School student health and wellness centerOct 16, 2014 1:01 am - Local leaders gathered Thursday to celebrate the opening of Lake County's first student health and wellness center at Round Lake High School, which offers services inclu...
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University of Minnesota knocks down tweet claiming Ebola airborneOct 16, 2014 1:01 am - University of Minnesota officials are knocking down a tweet claiming its researchers say is Ebola is airborne. University spokeswoman Caroline Marin told the Star Tribun...
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Dallas nurses cite sloppy conditions in Ebola careOct 15, 2014 1:01 am - DALLAS - A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas emergency room for hours, and the nurses treating him worked for days without proper protective ge...
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Quinn encourages Illinois residents to get flu shotsOct 15, 2014 1:01 am - Illinois Governor Pat Quinn got an annual flu shot in part to help remind residents around the state about the importance of an annual vaccination. Quinn received his s...
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2nd Texas health worker with Ebola was on flight from ClevelandOct 15, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - Health officials are alerting airline passengers who were on the same flight as a Texas nurse who was diagnosed with Ebola the next day. The 132 passengers we...
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U.S. charity helps N. Korea fight drug-resistant TBOct 14, 2014 1:01 am - WASHINGTON - Despite worsening U.S.-North Korean relations, an American charity is ramping up efforts against an epidemic of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the isol...
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CDC acknowledges it could have done more on EbolaOct 14, 2014 1:01 am - FORT WORTH, Texas - The nation's top disease-fighting agency acknowledged Tuesday that federal health experts failed to do all they should have done to prevent Ebola fro...
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Liquid nicotine exposures up sharply among kidsOct 14, 2014 1:01 am - SALT LAKE CITY - Poison control workers say that as the e-cigarette industry has boomed, the number of children exposed to the liquid nicotine that gives hand-held vapor...