Articles filed under Health
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Skypoint Medical Center grows in SchaumburgJan 21, 2013 5:33 am - An interview with Dr. Sameer M. Naseeruddin, CEO of Skypoint Medical Center. Q: How do you describe your business? A: We treat our patients with allopathic methods tha...
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Business CEOs call for raising retirement ageJan 20, 2013 5:12 am - WASHINGTON — An influential group of business CEOs is pushing a plan to gradually increase the full retirement age to 70 for both Social Security and Medicare and to par...
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More than 140 nations adopt treaty to cut mercuryJan 19, 2013 7:22 pm - GENEVA — A new and legally binding international treaty to reduce harmful emissions of mercury was adopted Saturday by more than 140 nations, capping four years of diffi...
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TSA to remove controversial X-ray scannersJan 18, 2013 3:41 pm - Those airport scanners with their all-too revealing body images will soon be going away. The Transportation Security Administration says the scanners that used a low-dos...
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Lilly drug chosen for Alzheimer’s studyJan 18, 2013 2:50 pm - Researchers have chosen an experimental drug by Eli Lilly & Co. for a large federally funded study testing whether it’s possible to prevent Alzheimer’s disease in older ...
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Officials may trade gas tax for mileage taxJan 18, 2013 2:19 pm - MONTPELIER, Vt. — Carpooling, higher fuel economy, hybrids and electric cars may be good for the environment, but they’re bad for government transportation funding, whic...
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Triune wins relief from birth control mandateJan 16, 2013 4:17 pm - A judge has granted an Oak Brook company temporary relief from a state requirement that its employee health insurance plan covers birth control. DuPage County Circuit Co...
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Hospitals expand reach with stand-alone ERsJan 14, 2013 3:40 pm - One recent evening after office hours, Dr. James Magee got a phone call about a patient, a woman in her 40s. She complained of tingling on one side of her body, in her a...
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Hospitals crack down on workers refusing flu shotsJan 12, 2013 5:18 pm - CHICAGO — Patients can refuse a flu shot. Should doctors and nurses have that right, too? That is the thorny question surfacing as U.S. hospitals increasingly crack down...
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Storm commission urges flood walls for subwaysJan 12, 2013 12:22 pm - ALBANY, N.Y. — A commission formed to examine ways to guard against storms like Sandy released a report Friday that calls for flood walls in subways, water pumps at airp...