Articles filed under Health
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FDA cracks down on illegal diabetes remediesJul 23, 2013 11:18 am - WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on more than a dozen companies that market illegal treatments for diabetes, ranging from bogus dietary sup...
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Advocate Health Care makes ‘most wired’ system listJul 23, 2013 9:21 am - Downers Grove-based Advocate Health Care has been named as one of the nation’s most wired health systems in this year’s Most Wired Survey by Hospitals & Health Networks ...
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Leukemia Research Foundation seeks nurse nominationsJul 22, 2013 10:01 am - Nurses make an immense difference in the lives of blood cancer patients and their families every day. An exceptional hematology-oncology nurse is dedicated, loved by pat...
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Alexian hospice residence opens in Elk Grove VillageJul 20, 2013 2:09 pm - Many local officials and residents were on hand for the ceremonial opening of Alexian Brothers Health System’s hospice residence in Elk Grove Village Friday afternoon. T...
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Deadly derailment won’t stop oil on trainsJul 19, 2013 3:56 pm - NEW YORK — A fiery and fatal train derailment earlier this month in Quebec, near the Maine border, highlighted the danger of moving oil by rail, a practice that has grow...
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Researchers find no tainted water near fracking siteJul 19, 2013 3:52 pm - Energy Department researchers so far have found “nothing of concern” in a study of whether chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing for natural gas at one site in Pennsylv...
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No total smoking ban for Buffalo Grove DaysJul 17, 2013 3:00 pm - Buffalo Grove will stick with the current smoking policy for Buffalo Grove Days, at least this year. Weeks after Trustee Michael Terson made an impassioned case for a co...
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Four Advocate hospitals make U.S. News annual listJul 17, 2013 9:34 am - DOWNERS GROVE — Four Advocate Health Care hospitals have been named among the finest in Chicago and Illinois according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2013-2014, Best Hosp...
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House GOP seek delay in health care provisionsJul 17, 2013 8:04 am - WASHINGTON — House Republicans, politically emboldened by President Barack Obama’s delay of a key requirement of his health care law, are taking another run at scrapping...
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Mosquitoes in Algonquin test postive for West NileJul 16, 2013 1:39 pm - West Nile is back in Kane County. State health officials located the first Kane County batch of mosquitoes to test positive for the disease Monday near Algonquin. There ...