Lifestyle
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‘It’s all of our responsibility’: Woodfield Area Children’s Organization, helping kids for 46 yearsNov 23, 2025 8:45 pm - For 46 years, the Woodfield Area Children’s Organization has helped provide youngsters in need with necessities and occasionally, a little something extra.
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‘A rare breed’: At 90, this Arlington Heights runner is an ultramarathon manNov 23, 2025 8:58 am - Gene Bruckert, a 90-year-old Arlington Heights resident, has completed some 300 marathons and 300 ultramarathons since taking up long-distance running in retirement.
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Perimenopause: How to tell the facts from the myths
Nov 23, 2025 8:58 am - Perimenopause seems to be having a moment. About a third of women in their 40s and 50s say they hear about the natural physiological process marking the end of a woman’s reproductive years extremely or very often. Whether it’s in the news or on social media, information on hormone therapies, night sweats and treatments for relief is flooding conversations.
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Children’s health: When to take your child to the emergency departmentNov 23, 2025 8:56 am - If your child breaks a bone, struggles to breathe or suffers frightening thoughts that tell them life isn't worth living, will you know how to help them? Injuries are the number one cause of death among kids in the U.S., so families need to prepare themselves to act when seconds count.
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‘Eating disorder’ and ‘disordered eating’ are not the sameNov 23, 2025 8:55 am - During the holidays, many families will gather for festive meals. If you pay attention to how and what a tween, teen or young adult is eating, you may detect a pattern that could indicate something is “off” about their approach to food. So that makes this an appropriate time to discuss what constitutes an eating disorder.
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Babies who drank ByHeart formula got sick months before botulism outbreak, parents say
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Olympic gold-medalist Rowdy Gaines has tips if you’re returning to the pool
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Stuffing mix, premade pie crust and more Thanksgiving shortcuts we love
Nov 21, 2025 9:10 am - These days, pretty much all of the Thanksgiving meal can be outsourced to professionals or replaced with store-bought products. Here are five favorite shortcuts to help make Turkey Day more manageable.
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‘There’s always a solution’: Can't take hormone therapy for menopause? There are options
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Ask the doctors: Treatment for osteonecrosis prioritizes restoring blood flowNov 21, 2025 8:58 am - Hip pain could be a sign of osteonecrosis, a degenerative condition in which bone tissue begins to die.