Health and Fitness
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Injuries explode as youths specialize in a single sportNov 11, 2013 5:00 am - Blake Billinger began playing baseball year-round at age 10, when he joined a club team and competed in tournaments nearly every weekend. Two years later, his Silicon V...
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Diagnosing ADHD is anything but an exact scienceNov 11, 2013 5:00 am - When my son was in preschool, I did what many parents of excessively energetic and impulsive preschoolers have surely done: I worried whether his behavior might be a sig...
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Food challenge is reliable way to test for allergiesNov 11, 2013 4:55 am - Q: Last month I broke out in hives after eating oysters. I had a blood test, which came back negative for a shellfish allergy. Why does my doctor still want me to do a f...
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Veterans reap benefits of Naperville yoga classesNov 11, 2013 4:00 am - Rich Goulet's wife had been bugging him to try yoga. The back pain that has plagued the Naperville man since he left the Army in 1970 wouldn't go away despite frequent v...
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Naperville runners sweep city’s first marathonNov 10, 2013 3:39 pm - Naperville runners completed a hometown sweep Sunday at the inaugural Edward Hospital Naperville Marathon, dashing to first place in the men’s and women’s divisions of t...
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Images: Thousands compete in first Naperville marathonNov 10, 2013 1:00 pm - ...
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Marathoners’ finishing thoughtsNov 10, 2013 12:31 pm - “It’s nice. You can sleep in your own bed, eat your own breakfast, you’re not stuck in a hotel room the night before. Hopefully they repeat it.” — Yves Leclerc of Naperv...
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Nurses running Naperville half marathon ‘saviors’ for runner who collapsedNov 10, 2013 12:30 pm - Among all the volunteer medical personnel staffing the inaugural Edward Hospital Naperville Marathon and Half Marathon on Sunday, it was three nurses actually running th...
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Race day greets Naperville marathonersNov 10, 2013 4:30 am - There's a special something about the atmosphere on race day. Runners say a certain nervous excitement, coupled with camaraderie and anticipation, brings them to startin...
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Schaumburg man gets gift of life with new liverNov 09, 2013 10:00 pm - Lifelong Schaumburg resident Freddie Martinez kicked his alcoholism 13 years ago and has remained sober ever since. But one last great battle awaited him as the cirrhosi...