Articles filed under Health
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Obama budget hikes Medicare for upper-income seniorsApr 12, 2013 3:00 pm - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's plan to raise Medicare premiums for upper-income seniors would create five new income brackets to squeeze more revenue for the gove...
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FDA finds safety issues at specialty pharmaciesApr 12, 2013 10:53 am - WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration says it has uncovered potential safety problems at 30 specialty pharmacies that were inspected in the wake of a recent outb...
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Tracking Obama’s health law in budget isn’t easyApr 11, 2013 9:00 am - WASHINGTON — Next year is the year President Barack Obama’s signature health care law goes into high gear, covering millions of uninsured Americans by a mix of private p...
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Nobel prizewinner, IVF pioneer Robert Edwards diesApr 10, 2013 11:06 am - LONDON — Robert Edwards, a Nobel prizewinner from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has since brought millions...
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Hospital app now features imaging, lab resultsApr 09, 2013 11:22 am - Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) has unveiled new imaging and lab results functionality for its mobile app, MyNCH, allowing NCH Medical Group patients to view their ...
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FDA approves return of drug for morning sicknessApr 09, 2013 10:07 am - WASHINGTON — Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the only drug specifically desi...
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Baby Lake doing fine 5 months after exit procedureApr 09, 2013 10:07 am - DENVER — Lake Annabelle Hall wouldn’t be alive today if doctors at Children’s Hospital of Colorado hadn’t operated on a cyst on her left lung before she was born. Doctor...
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Former professional dancer launches Libertyville Pilates studioApr 08, 2013 2:41 am - An interview with Corinne Dawson, owner of The Pilates Workshop in Libertyville. Q: Describe your business. What do you do? A: The Pilates Workshop is a studio where pe...
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Infants move to new children's hospital in Hoffman EstatesApr 06, 2013 1:00 pm - Babies, babies, babies! Babies everywhere you looked! In hallways. In elevators. In rooms. In incubators. But mostly in the hearts of the parents and the nurses cautious...
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NY judge makes morning-after pill available to allApr 05, 2013 9:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) — The morning-after pill might become as easy to buy as aspirin. In a scathing rebuke accusing the Obama administration of letting election-year politics...