Articles filed under Health
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Teens in isolation finding ways to 'be social with each other'Apr 06, 2020 1:00 am - Passing periods. The lunchroom. Softball practice. Musical rehearsals. It's not just history and science classes that are suddenly gone or switched from in-person to onl...
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U of I Extension offers wellness webinarsApr 05, 2020 1:00 am - University of Illinois Extension nutrition and wellness educators will offer free online webinars over the next two months to provide healthful strategies for enriching ...
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FDA wants heartburn meds Zantac off the market due to contaminationApr 01, 2020 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. health regulators are telling drugmakers to immediately pull their popular heartburn drugs off the market after determining that a contamination i...
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'A battlefield behind your home': Deaths mount in New YorkApr 01, 2020 1:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - New York authorities rushed to bring in an army of medical volunteers Wednesday as the statewide death toll from the coronavirus doubled in 72 hours to m...
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Need a new outlook? Naperville teen's book emphasizes optimismMar 26, 2020 5:00 am - A book by a Naperville teen contains a message the virus-weary world might do well to hear. It's about positivity. “Generation Optimism: Creating the Next Generation of ...
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Pregnancy during a pandemic: What women need to knowMar 25, 2020 5:00 am - Expecting a child during a once-in-a-generation crisis can take a pregnant woman's stress to another level. So the Daily Herald asked Dr. Melissa Simon, an ob-gyn at Nor...
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Northwestern Medicine puts strict limits on visitorsMar 24, 2020 1:00 am - Northwestern Medicine has implemented a no-visitor policy at all of its inpatient and outpatient care sites. In cases where this policy may have long-term negative healt...
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No one knew a Naperville teen couldn't see until he was 15. His mom's new book explains why.Mar 24, 2020 1:00 am - Sebastian Duesing is an art student who can't see - at least not in the typical way. His blindness wasn't discovered until three years ago, when he was 15 and his famil...
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Charity in Action: St. Charles man's passion for sneakers has led to booming nonprofitMar 23, 2020 6:00 am - Cameron DeHaven of St. Charles hardly remembers a time when he didn't have bags of sneakers in his car. Sure, he is a self-described “sneaker head,” but over the last ye...
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Celebrate World Down Syndrome Day with 3-21 challengeMar 20, 2020 1:00 am - Officials at GiGi's Playhouse National Playhouse are urging people to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day by taking the 3-21 challenge. That means doing three random acts ...