Health Care
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Nestle to focus on food sales again after CEO’s experimental bets
Aug 25, 2024 5:43 am - The world’s biggest food company is getting back to basics — feeding a growing planet, but one whose consumers are both more savvy and financially stretched. Nestle SA, t...
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How to get relief from unexpectedly high medical bills
Aug 18, 2024 5:19 am - Unexpectedly high medical bills are common in the United States, but there are ways to get relief.
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Now that mpox is a global health emergency, will it trigger another pandemic?
Aug 16, 2024 1:09 pm - LONDON — The World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency, requiring urgent action to cu...
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Harris aims to blunt Trump's economic attacks by proposing new tax breaks in a bid to lower costs
Aug 16, 2024 6:11 am - Vice President Kamala Harris is promoting a broad set of economic proposals that would offer new tax breaks and lower the cost of living for Americans, aiming to address the financial concerns that are at the top of the mind for voters and that Republican Donald Trump is trying to lay at her doorstep.
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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...