Health and Fitness
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Mount Prospect pharmacy hosts weekly health screening clinicSep 29, 2013 11:44 am - A community health screening clinic will be held from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. every Wednesday morning at Keefer’s Pharmacy, 5 West Prospect Ave., in downtown Mount Prospect....
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Affordable Care Act debut in suburbs gets mixed reactionSep 28, 2013 11:00 pm - When she got divorced two years ago, Megan Cochran of Hoffman Estates was removed from her husband's health insurance plan. She applied for Medicaid, but her $33,000-a-y...
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Relief from mental illnesses is in the cardsSep 28, 2013 11:00 pm - Project benefits mental illness patients at Kenneth Young Center
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FDA lays out rules for some smartphone health appsSep 28, 2013 7:25 am - WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration officials say they will begin regulating a new wave of applications and gadgets that work with smartphones to take medical read...
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14 oddball reasons you're not dead yetSep 28, 2013 5:00 am - Life span has doubled in the United States in the past 150 years. This ridiculously wonderful change in the nature of life and death is something we tend to take for gra...
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Mom says surgery quelled autistic son’s screamsSep 27, 2013 7:31 pm - MADISON, Wis. — A mother who couldn’t find ways to quell her son’s incessant screaming said a surgery performed by a University of Wisconsin Health doctor finally helped...
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Illinois short on ‘Obamacare’ guidesSep 27, 2013 6:35 pm - Only a fraction of the expected army of outreach workers will be certified and ready Tuesday to help Illinois residents sign up for insurance under President Barack Obam...
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Learn how to go green at Fox Valley Holistic Health CelebrationSep 27, 2013 2:40 pm - Are you ready to “green” your life? Take the first steps at the fifth annual Fox Valley Holistic Health Celebration on Sunday, Sept. 29. Nearly 80 area exhibitors will ...
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Lake County Health Department offers flu shotsSep 26, 2013 10:01 pm - The Lake County Health Department/Community Health Center will begin offering flu and pneumonia vaccinations to the general public Oct. 1. The vaccine is available by ap...
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More kids protected from flu; CDC says keep it upSep 26, 2013 5:06 pm - WASHINGTON — More children than ever got vaccinated against the flu last year, and health officials urged families Thursday to do even better this time around. Far too m...