Articles filed under Health
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Kirk’s stroke draws former Porter staff togetherJan 03, 2013 11:54 am - “We should really get together,” the onetime staffers in former North suburban U.S. Rep. John Porter’s office would say, year after year. But life interceded, until news...
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Adventist names new chief medical officerJan 03, 2013 11:20 am - Adventist Midwest Health has named Dr. George Mayzell the Adventist Midwest Health senior chief medical officer and chief clinical integration officer. Mayzell, 56, join...
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Experts: Stroke could make Kirk a tougher opponent in 2016Jan 02, 2013 4:30 am - U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk hasn’t said whether he’ll seek re-election in 2016, but experts say if he does, his recovery and return to Congress could make a campaign challenge b...
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Senator Kirk speaks for the first time about his strokeJan 02, 2013 4:00 am - For Mark Kirk, there was no white light, no tunnel. What Illinois' junior U.S. senator experienced was three angels standing at the foot of his bed. "You want to come...
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Kirk: Experimental therapy helped him relearn to walkJan 02, 2013 4:00 am - Mark Kirk literally rose to this occasion. A beaming Kirk emerged from a Willis Tower stairwell on Nov. 4 after climbing more than three dozen flights of stairs on his ...
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Clinton receiving blood thinners to dissolve clotJan 01, 2013 7:00 am - WASHINGTON — Doctors treating Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for a blood clot in her head said blood thinners are being used to dissolve the clot and they ar...
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Feds fail to stop rampant steroid useJan 01, 2013 5:12 am - EDITOR’S NOTE — Whether for athletics or age, Americans from teenagers to baby boomers are trying to get an edge by illegally using anabolic steroids and human growth ho...
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Cliff avoided: Congress staves off tax hikesJan 01, 2013 12:00 am - WASHINGTON — Past its own New Year's deadline, a weary Congress sent President Barack Obama legislation to avoid a national “fiscal cliff” of middle class tax increases ...
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Experts: Flu season could be severeDec 29, 2012 4:22 pm - WASHINGTON —Flu season in the United States is having its earliest start in nearly a decade and health officials say this season could be a bad one. Although flu is alwa...
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Long-awaited pollution trial ready to startDec 29, 2012 12:07 pm - CONCORD, N.H. — Nearly a decade after it was first brought, a lawsuit accusing two oil giants of widespread groundwater contamination in New Hampshire is expected to pre...