Articles filed under Health
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Alexian hospice residence opens in Elk Grove VillageJul 20, 2013 2:09 pm - Many local officials and residents were on hand for the ceremonial opening of Alexian Brothers Health System’s hospice residence in Elk Grove Village Friday afternoon. T...
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Deadly derailment won’t stop oil on trainsJul 19, 2013 3:56 pm - NEW YORK — A fiery and fatal train derailment earlier this month in Quebec, near the Maine border, highlighted the danger of moving oil by rail, a practice that has grow...
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Researchers find no tainted water near fracking siteJul 19, 2013 3:52 pm - Energy Department researchers so far have found “nothing of concern” in a study of whether chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing for natural gas at one site in Pennsylv...
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No total smoking ban for Buffalo Grove DaysJul 17, 2013 3:00 pm - Buffalo Grove will stick with the current smoking policy for Buffalo Grove Days, at least this year. Weeks after Trustee Michael Terson made an impassioned case for a co...
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Four Advocate hospitals make U.S. News annual listJul 17, 2013 9:34 am - DOWNERS GROVE — Four Advocate Health Care hospitals have been named among the finest in Chicago and Illinois according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2013-2014, Best Hosp...
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House GOP seek delay in health care provisionsJul 17, 2013 8:04 am - WASHINGTON — House Republicans, politically emboldened by President Barack Obama’s delay of a key requirement of his health care law, are taking another run at scrapping...
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Mosquitoes in Algonquin test postive for West NileJul 16, 2013 1:39 pm - West Nile is back in Kane County. State health officials located the first Kane County batch of mosquitoes to test positive for the disease Monday near Algonquin. There ...
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Funeral set for former Condell Medical Center president Eugene PritchardJul 15, 2013 9:43 am - A former president and CEO of what is now Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville has died. Eugene Pritchard was 80. He died Thursday, July 11, at the Autumn Lea...
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Catholic hospitals accept birth control ruleJul 09, 2013 11:10 am - WASHINGTON — A trade group for Catholic hospitals says it can accept the Obama administration’s compromise on birth control coverage. The Catholic Health Association sa...
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Lutheran Social Services of Illinois offers exercise class for people with Parkinson’sJul 09, 2013 10:33 am - St. Matthew Center for Health and Intouch Home Care, programs of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois in Park Ridge, and The Frisbie Senior Center in Des Plaines are exc...