Health Care
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How to help when a loved one is recovering from a heart attackAug 16, 2024 3:23 am - Few things are as frightening as a heart attack, not just for the person experiencing it but for family members. With prompt and proper treatment between 90% and 95% of heart attack patients survive and return home.
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‘It’s going to happen again’: Biting mites an issue for some following cicada emergenceAug 15, 2024 6:57 pm - Like 17 years ago, a corollary effect of the periodical cicada emergence has left some people scratching unexplained red welts appearing seemingly out of nowhere.
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White House says prescription drug deals will produce billions in savings for taxpayers, seniors
Aug 15, 2024 9:10 am - WASHINGTON — Taxpayers are expected to save billions after the Biden administration inked deals with pharmaceutical companies to knock down the lists prices for 10 of Med...
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Suburban Orthopaedics - now open in SchaumburgAug 14, 2024 4:11 pm - Improve your quality of life alongside the skilled professionals at Suburban Orthopaedics.
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Mpox has been declared a public health emergency in Africa. What is it and what’s the WHO doing?
Aug 14, 2024 1:00 pm - LONDON — The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared this week that the increasing spread of mpox across the continent is a health emergency, warning t...
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Dozens of pregnant women, some bleeding or in labor, being turned away from ERs despite federal law
Aug 12, 2024 1:05 pm - WASHINGTON — Bleeding and in pain, Kyleigh Thurman didn’t know her doomed pregnancy could kill her. Emergency room doctors at Ascension Seton Williamson in Texas handed h...
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With new federal waiver, Illinois expanding Medicaid to nonmedical services
Aug 12, 2024 10:37 am - Many people enrolled in the state’s Medicaid program soon will be eligible to receive a host of nonmedical services that could improve their overall health, including hou...
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Final piece of structural steel added at Lurie Children’s new Outpatient Center in SchaumburgAug 12, 2024 9:55 am - Skender, as general contractor, today announced the placement of the final piece of structural steel on the Schaumburg Outpatient, Primary Care and Infusion Center, located at 1895 Arbor Glen Blvd., Schaumburg, Illinois.
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The U.S. government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button
Aug 12, 2024 7:43 am - In the name of consumer protection, a slew of U.S. federal agencies are working to make it easier for Americans to click the unsubscribe button for unwanted memberships and recurring payment services.
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Hearing on senior group home in Schaumburg postponed to Sept. 18Aug 08, 2024 1:12 pm - A Schaumburg plan commission hearing on the proposed conversion of a single-family home into a group home for the care of infirm seniors was postponed from Wednesday to Sept. 18 at the applicant’s request.