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Barrington raises age to purchase tobacco, vaping products
Oct 23, 2018 5:22 AM - Barrington village board members Monday night approved raising the minimum age for buying tobacco and vaping products such as electronic cigarettes to 21 from 18. -
Marketplace Subsidies May Be Option In 2020 For Plans That Skirt Obamacare
Oct 22, 2018 6:45 PM - States would be able to use federal funding to provide subsidies to people buying short-term health insurance policies, which typically don’t provide comprehensive coverage, under guidance released Monday by the Trump administration. The new policy could begin taking effect in 2020. It would allow states to ask for waivers from Affordable Care Act provisions governing not only subsidies that help pay for premiums, but also the benefits insurers must include in plans offered on the federal marketplace to consumers buying their own coverage.
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Drugmakers may have to disclose prices of medicine in television ads
Oct 21, 2018 1:00 AM - Under a major change laid out by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and drafted as a new federal rule, drug manufacturers would need to disclose in ads the list price of a 30-day supply of any drug that is covered through Medicare and Medicaid and costs more than $35 a month.
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Schaumburg hosts blood drive Oct. 25Oct 21, 2018 4:13 PM - The village of Schaumburg is holding its next Community Blood Drive from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, at The Barn, 231 S. Civic Drive in Schaumburg.
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Suburban health insurance providers sue opioid manufacturers, prescribers
Oct 16, 2018 7:03 PM - Two suburban-based nonprofit risk pools that provide more than 203 local municipalities with employee health insurance filed a joint lawsuit against leading opioid manufacturers, distributors, professional associations and prescribers. -
Parent action hopes to help reading work for kids with dyslexiaOct 15, 2018 5:30 AM - Here's how a dyslexia advocacy group is working with one suburban school district to increase screening and resources for students.
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What is dyslexia? Not what you think, experts say
Oct 15, 2018 6:30 AM - Think dyslexia is about flipping letters or reading backward? Think again, experts say. Here's why this learning disability is as misunderstood as it is common. -
Lake County sheriff's office to host three drug take back eventsOct 14, 2018 5:24 PM - The Lake County sheriff's office is partnering with the DEA and hosting three drug take back programs on Oct. 27 in Beach Park, Long Grove and Volo.
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How one diabetes prevention program changed two lives
Oct 14, 2018 1:00 AM - Edward-Elmhurst Health's Jumpstart Your Health diabetes prevention program has been so effective it has been cited twice by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. -
Walk to Remember honors babies Sunday in Arlington Heights
Oct 12, 2018 1:47 PM - Northwest Community Healthcare will host its annual event to honor and remember babies lost through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and newborn death during its Walk to Remember at 2 p.m. Sunday.
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