Articles filed under Health
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'Corey's Goal' aims to educate schools on disciplinary issuesDec 23, 2017 12:00 am - Nearly a year after their son's meeting with Naperville North High School officials, which led to his suicide, Corey Walgren's family is taking action to prevent it from...
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Rozner: Family, friends helping Blackhawks great Eddie Olczyk in his fight against cancerDec 23, 2017 12:00 am - There is every minute of your life before the phone call. And everything after. The shock too shattering to define. Words painfully inadequate. You remember the ring of ...
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Schaumburg Park District banning smoking at outdoor facilitiesDec 22, 2017 12:00 am - Exactly a decade after indoor smoking became illegal in public places Illinois, the Schaumburg Park District on Jan. 1 will also ban smoking from nearly all its outdoor ...
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Suburban counties sue opioid drug makers over overdose deathsDec 21, 2017 12:00 am - Calling doctors, pharmacists and patients victims of "a coordinated, sophisticated and highly deceptive marketing campaign," prosecutors from five suburban counties file...
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AP FACT CHECK: Trump says 'Obamacare' is repealed. It isn't.Dec 20, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has prematurely declared "Obamacare" dead and displayed a misunderstanding of where the money comes from to make the health law ...
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Schaumburg nursing division to move east, not westDec 20, 2017 12:00 am - While Schaumburg officials still plan to relocate their nursing and senior services division next summer, its destination now appears to be the northwest corner of Plum ...
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Idea Lab for pediatric patients honors longtime volunteersDec 17, 2017 10:00 pm - Les and Mary Wiberg may have retired from the classroom 25 year ago, but they will always be teachers. So in their namesake room on the pediatric floor of a Winfield hos...
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Good Shepherd's $247 million makeover completeDec 14, 2017 12:00 am - A four-year, $247 million project to modernize the campus of Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital near Lake Barrington is complete, hospital officials announced Thursday. "Im...
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This is not your typical weight loss programDec 13, 2017 10:00 pm - "I just didn't felt like myself. It truly knocked me off my feet in more ways than one." For Karen Such, her breast cancer diagnosis was a game changer. In addition to h...
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Editorial: Shared police social worker could be model ideaDec 13, 2017 10:00 pm - Good cops must have some social-work skills to be effective. Being a good listener, dispensing sound advice, knowing when to use patience or a firm hand to defuse tense ...