Articles filed under Health
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New Wheaton gym helps keep cops in top shapeJan 24, 2011 12:00 am - Don’t talk to police sergeant P.J. Youker about the stereotypes that surround his profession. He hears them. He acknowledges them. And five mornings per week, he breaks ...
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Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria money lost to fraudJan 22, 2011 10:00 pm - GENEVA — A $21.7 billion development fund backed by celebrities and hailed as an alternative to the bureaucracy of the United Nations sees as much as two-thirds of some...
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Hospice agency relocating headquarters to Mount ProspectJan 21, 2011 12:00 am - Now's the time for renters to become buyers — and not just of homes. Taking advantage of the real estate market, Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care will move its headq...
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Indiana flu season ramping up rapidlyJan 20, 2011 10:00 pm - INDIANAPOLIS — Flu cases in Indiana are multiplying more quickly than normal, and three people across the state have died from the disease, according to Indiana health ...
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SIU breast, prostate cancer research gets fundingJan 19, 2011 10:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Research on breast cancer and prostate cancer just got a big federal boost at Southern Illinois University in Springfield. Grants totaling more than $400,...
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Hearing to focus on changes at Oak Forest HospitalJan 18, 2011 10:00 pm - Cook County Health and Hospitals System has applied to the state's health facilities board to end inpatient care, emergency services and surgeries at a suburban Chicago ...
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Arlington Hts. hospital can now care for tiniest babiesJan 17, 2011 12:00 am - Northwest Community Hospital can now care for the tiniest of premature newborns, the Arlington Heights hospital announced Monday. The Illinois Department of Public Healt...
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Poll shows raw feelings ease over health lawJan 15, 2011 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON — As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the health care debate, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Barack ...
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Cancer survivor aims to raze barriers with appJan 15, 2011 10:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — In the late 1990s, Marty Tenenbaum was a hotshot e-commerce entrepreneur riding high on the dot-com boom when he noticed a lump on his body. His doctor ...
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What goes up, won't go down this yearJan 14, 2011 10:00 pm - Just keep that wallet handy. Whipsawed consumers — facing a 66 percent Illinois income tax increase just as the nation climbs out of recession — now need to brace for pr...