Articles filed under Health
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Sign up now for Geneva Park District's Super Shuffle 5KJan 17, 2019 10:00 pm - Registration is now open for the Geneva Park District's annual Super Shuffle 5K being held on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 3, at Geneva Middle School South. This event happ...
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Editorial: Protect yourself from the flu - get a shotJan 15, 2019 12:00 am - Maybe you were so busy during the last three months, you didn't get flu shots for yourself and your family. Work was crazy, the weeks leading up to the holidays were a n...
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Hanover Township provides PADS fundingJan 14, 2019 12:00 am - The Hanover Township Mental Health Board recently approved $25,000 in emergency funding for PADS (Public Action to Deliver Shelter) of Elgin to support the agency's new ...
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Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center and Cook County Health HIV Integrated Program launch 'CORE Healthy Aging Initiative 2.0'Jan 13, 2019 10:00 pm - In 2018, 920 people aged 60 years or older living with HIV received primary are at the Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center. As people living with HIV age, a significant propor...
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Deepak Chopra has a prescription for what ails technologyJan 12, 2019 5:00 am - LAS VEGAS — Deepak Chopra pulls back his sleeve to show me his Fitbit. His heart rate is 69 beats per minute. “I can consciously bring it down,” he says. “This technolog...
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How your at-home DNA test results could solve cold casesJan 12, 2019 5:00 am - The results seem almost miraculous: an arrest in the killing of a young girl in 1988 after 30 years of searching. The murder of a young couple in 1987, solved in a matte...
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After medical emergencies, Schaumburg addresses carbon monoxide danger in hookah loungesJan 11, 2019 12:00 am - Schaumburg officials last year learned the hard way about a danger to hookah lounges they hadn't previously considered: carbon monoxide poisoning. After three medical em...
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Elderly, conservatives shared more Facebook fakery in 2016Jan 09, 2019 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Sharing false information on Facebook is old. People over 65 and ultra conservatives shared about seven times more fake information masquerading as news on ...
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Lake County offers free mental health first aid trainingJan 09, 2019 12:00 am - The Lake County Health Department is hosting a free weeklong class to train approved instructors to teach an adult mental health first aid course. Training normally cost...
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How phone apps could help monitor your teen's angstJan 05, 2019 5:30 am - Rising suicide rates and depression in U.S. teens and young adults have prompted researchers to ask a provocative question: Could the same devices that some people blame...