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Drugstore chain Walgreens cuts quarterly dividend to get more cash to grow its business

By TOM MURPHY
Jan 04, 2024 8:18 am - Walgreens is chopping its dividend nearly in half as the drugstore chain looks to strengthen its balance sheet. The health care giant said Thursday that reducing its quar...
Fifty years of setting things straight: Arlington Chiropractic Clinic in Arlington Heights hits milestone

By Christopher Placek
Jan 03, 2024 10:03 am - Arlington Chiropractic Clinic celebrated its 50th anniversary with a reception attended by longtime patients and Arlington Heights Mayor Tom Hayes. The Nov. 17 event came...
How to pay for promising medications like Ozempic

By RONITA CHOUDHURI-WADE of NerdWallet
Dec 31, 2023 5:02 am - Steve Haines always loved to go for walks, but exercise had become a nightmare when he was 380 pounds and diabetic. The 49-year-old from Champaign says he would get ulcer...
Patient Advocate: Women leaders are transforming health care

By Teri Dreher
Dec 30, 2023 6:15 am - Since the days of Florence Nightingale, women have been the cornerstone of health care, today making up 70 percent of the workforce. And they are increasingly becoming pr...
Patient Advocate: ‘Good news’ medical stories of 2023

By Teri Dreher, Patient Advocate
Dec 23, 2023 6:00 am - Today, I’m going to wrap up a year of columns by looking for the nuggets of good medical news: promising research, new technologies and improved treatments that are on th...
States trashing troves of masks and pandemic gear as huge, costly stockpiles linger and expire

By JENNIFER PELTZ and DAVID A. LIEB
Dec 20, 2023 6:56 am - When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in an unprepared U.S., states scrambled for masks and other protective gear. Three years later, as the grips of the pandemic have...
Some state abortion bans stir confusion, and it's uncertain if lawmakers will clarify them

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and GEOFF MULVIHILL
Dec 20, 2023 6:52 am - Ever since the nation’s highest court ended abortion rights more than a year ago, vaguely worded bans enacted in some Republican-controlled states have caused bewildermen...
How suburban counties are spending opioid settlement money

By Katlyn Smith
Dec 16, 2023 3:00 pm - With millions of dollars flowing into their coffers from landmark settlements with opioid companies, suburban county governments are mapping out how to spend some of the ...
'Insurance godmothers' sign up Latinos for Obamacare in pro-Trump areas as he threatens to repeal it

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Dec 16, 2023 8:13 am - MIAMI (AP) — Salsa music blares from the food court in a rundown Miami shopping center as Latinos head to a kiosk and an office showing signs for “ Obamacare,” where they...
Black Ohio woman criminally charged after miscarriage underscores the perils of pregnancy post-Roe

By JULIE CARR SMYTH
Dec 16, 2023 8:08 am - COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio was in the throes of a bitter debate over abortion rights this fall when Brittany Watts, 21 weeks and 5 days pregnant, began passing thick bloo...

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