Articles filed under Health
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Business owners fear costs, regulations of health-care reformApr 01, 2010 11:00 pm - Health-care reform is supposed to lower costs, but among skeptical suburban business owners, at least one industry is sure to see a cost increase: tanning salons. Effect...
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Twin toddlers from Arlington Heights need liver transplantsApr 01, 2010 11:00 pm - On the liver transplant scale, toddler Jake Swanson rates a 17. His twin brother, Luke, scores a 9. Whether that's good or bad depends on how you look at it. A zero is h...
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Suburbanites tell why they welcome health care reformMar 31, 2010 11:00 pm - While the public debates the broad principles of the new health care law, some suburban residents anticipate direct effects, both good and bad. Those with limited or no ...
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Pfizer gave docs $35 million in last half of 2009Mar 30, 2010 11:00 pm - TRENTON, N.J. -- Pfizer Inc. paid doctors and teaching hospitals a total of $35 million in the last half of 2009 for services ranging from speaking to other doctors abou...
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Seniors fear health care remake will hurt MedicareMar 30, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Seniors aren't breaking out the champagne for President Barack Obama's health care law, and for good reason. While Democrats hail the overhaul as their gre...
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Study: Chocolate could reduce heart riskMar 29, 2010 11:00 pm - LONDON -- The Easter Bunny might lower your chances of having a heart problem. According to a new study, small doses of chocolate every day could decrease your risk of h...
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Study adds evidence that bone drugs work, are safeMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - A new study gives reassuring news about the safety of Fosamax and Reclast, bone-building drugs taken by millions of American women. It found that long-term use does not ...
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Health overhaul likely to strain doctor shortageMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Better beat the crowd and find a doctor. Primary care physicians already are in short supply in parts of the country, and the landmark health overhaul that...
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A risky transplant for a McHenry County boy so far is workingMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Potty training, slipping down a slide unaided, and entering preschool are ordinary yet momentous milestones of a child's life. For Jenny and Brad Christiansen, it was pe...
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Hoarding is different from obsessive disordersMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Are hoarders simply extremely messy people who have no regard for their personal environments? That's not the case, health professionals say. Hoarders, in the simplest s...