Health Care
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Delnor Hospital’s drone delivery program saves time transferring specimens, medical suppliesOct 24, 2024 6:05 pm - Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital is teaming up with a Lombard-based drone company to increase the speed of deliveries on its Geneva campus.
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Hospitals’ IV fluid shortage may impact surgeries for weeks
Oct 22, 2024 2:07 pm - Surgery schedules around the country may be washed out for several more weeks while a crucial IV and sterile fluids factory remains shut down for hurricane-related damage.
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Where health care is going: Ascension Alexian Brothers opens neurosciences unit to meet demands of aging populationOct 22, 2024 12:39 pm - Patients will be on the move Wednesday at Ascension Alexian Brothers hospital in Elk Grove Village, where a new 36-bed neurosciences unit opens.
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Northwestern Hospital Huntley to get medical office building
Oct 21, 2024 1:21 pm - Northwestern Hospital Huntley is getting a new medical office building. The Huntley Village Board recently gave its blessing to the project. The village board previously ...
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White House says health insurance needs to fully cover condoms, other over-the-counter birth control
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Trump, RFK vow to ‘Make America Healthy Again,’ raising hopes and doubts
Oct 20, 2024 6:00 am - Staring into a camera last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he’d deepened his partnership with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. He gestured to his green “Make America Healthy Again” hat, a new and visible melding of his environmental politics and Trump’s conservative brand.
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First tick infected with a rare illness discovered in Lake CountyOct 18, 2024 2:50 pm - State health officials say the first tick to test positive for Ehrlichia muris eauclairensis, a bacteria transmitted by blacklegged tick bites, has been confirmed in Lake County.
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MedSpa on Main offers aesthetic and wellness treatments in downtown LibertyvilleOct 18, 2024 11:46 am - MedSpa on Main by Lake County Plastic Surgery, 703 N. Milwaukee Ave., in Libertyville is hosting a grand opening Nov. 1.
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Are high deductible health insurance plans a good deal for you?
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How Round Lake Beach man conquered cancer and two marathonsOct 17, 2024 6:34 pm - Batbayar Tserendorj of Round Lake Beach turned down a liver transplant to run the 2023 Chicago Marathon, and postsurgery returned to training for the 2024 race — this time running with his new liver.