Health Care
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Amazon gives AI to hospital in tech's latest health push
Mar 09, 2019 5:00 am - Alexa won't be replacing doctors anytime soon, but Amazon says artificial intelligence can help hospitals become more efficient. The internet giant said Monday that it's...
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Advocate Sherman receives '100 top hospitals' honorMar 06, 2019 12:00 am - ELGIN - Advocate Sherman Hospital has been named one of the nation's 100 Top Hospitals by IBM Watson Health. The study spotlights the top-performing hospitals in the U.S...
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Lilly offers half-price insulin in counter to drug cost pressure
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GiGi's Playhouse to mark Down Syndrome Day March 21Mar 04, 2019 12:00 am - Hoffman Estates-based GiGi's Playhouse Down Syndrome Achievement Centers, with 43 locations across the country and in Mexico, will be celebrating World Down Synd...
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Should you move abroad for health care?Mar 03, 2019 5:00 am - The notion that health care outside the U.S. could be good as well as cheap is a foreign one to many Americans. Kathleen Peddicord frequently hears from such skeptics as...
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Illinois Democrats seek to rein in drug prices; Republicans say it will backfireMar 02, 2019 12:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Democrats in the Illinois House are pushing a package of bills they say would help control the spiraling cost of prescription drugs. Republicans, however, ...
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Lake Forest Hospital receives energy, environmental certificationMar 01, 2019 12:00 am - LAKE FOREST - Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification, the hospital announced. The per...
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A training called Stop the Bleed helps civilians learn basic response techniques to help handle emergency hemorrhages. Here's how one instructor is bringing it to the suburbs.Mar 01, 2019 12:00 am - One suburban emergency medical services expert is getting involved in a nationwide campaign to prepare the public to respond when someone is experiencing sudden and prob...
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'Something is in those vaccines': Lawmaker says mandatory measles shots are 'Communist'
Mar 01, 2019 12:00 am - Amid a surging measles outbreak in the United States that's grown to about 160 cases in 10 states, Arizona's legislature recently passed bills allowing for a religious e...
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Anti-vaxxers face backlash as measles cases surge