Articles filed under Health
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Booking a trip to the ER on your smartphone? It's a breezeJan 15, 2015 12:01 am - TRENTON, N.J. - It's like OpenTable for medical appointments. No waiting weeks to see a dermatologist. No sitting for hours in the emergency room. No frantic calls to fi...
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Naperville Marathon plans more downtown involvementJan 15, 2015 12:00 am - Naperville Marathon organizers say they are charting a course for the third annual race that more directly involves the commercial area of the city's downtown. The next...
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Constable: Money gone, but new heart arrivesJan 14, 2015 10:00 pm - Sunday got off to a bleak start for Tyler and Rachel Knickerbocker of Huntley. Not only was their baby boy, Noah, enduring his fifth month in a Milwaukee hospital and st...
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Wheeling backs medical marijuana dispensaryJan 13, 2015 12:01 am - A third medical marijuana retailer has secured Wheeling village board approval to sell the drug to qualified patients, but whether any of the dispensaries eventually ope...
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Schaumburg police now carry overdose antidoteJan 09, 2015 12:01 am - Schaumburg police officers recently joined the DuPage County Narcan Program and are now carrying the lifesaving antidote to opiate drug overdose. Officers have been trai...
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Volunteer shares how mother led her to hospice workJan 08, 2015 10:00 pm - When Betsy Haraf's mother, Stasy Heile, entered Midwest CareCenter's hospice suite at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Betsy was certain her mom was ne...
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Constable: Will you live longer if you move?Jan 08, 2015 4:30 am - You started off 2015 with a vow to eat healthier and exercise more. But if you really want to live longer, you might want to think about a change of address. Of the 102 ...
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Register NOW for NAMI Family to Family Class Starting in FebruaryJan 06, 2015 10:00 pm - Family to Family is for family members, partners and friends of individuals with major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia schizoaffective disorder, borderline p...
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Disease list for Illinois medical marijuana could growJan 06, 2015 12:01 am - Illinois residents can now formally suggest a new medical condition that could benefit from medical marijuana. The Illinois Department of Public Health is accepting peti...
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Strokes fall to No. 5 cause of death in U.S.Jan 05, 2015 10:00 pm - Stroke has dropped from the nation's fourth-leading cause of death to number five, according to new federal statistics. It is the second time since 2011 that stroke has ...