Articles filed under Health
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More than 540k sign up for health overhaul plansNov 12, 2015 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration says more than 543,000 people signed up for coverage last week under the president's health care law, as the 2016 enrollment s...
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Walgreens expands apps services into 25 statesNov 10, 2015 12:00 am - DEERFIELD - Walgreens announced it is expanding its mobile app to offers MDLive telehealth services to users in 25 states, and will launch an updated telehealth experien...
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Work stress may be shaving years off your lifeNov 08, 2015 6:12 am - People often like to groan about how their job is "killing" them. Tragically, for some groups of people in the U.S., that statement appears to be true. A new study by re...
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NavCog is a new app serves as eyes for the blindNov 06, 2015 10:00 pm - As computers get better at navigating the world around them, they are also helping humans better navigate that world as well. Thanks to advances in artificial intelligen...
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Supreme Court accepts challenge to health law's contraceptive mandateNov 06, 2015 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear another challenge to the Affordable Care Act, this time to decide whether religiously affiliated organizations su...
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How should we react to Fox Lake officer's suicide?Nov 05, 2015 4:00 am - Wednesday's shocking revelation that beloved Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph “G.I. Joe” Gliniewicz was a common thief who orchestrated his sad suicide to look like th...
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'Cut Above' awards honors first responders, medical teamNov 03, 2015 10:00 pm - Forty-four paramedics, one police officer and one nurse were recently honored for heroic acts in the past year at a special ceremony at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest...
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Texas’ Changing Relationship To ObamacareNov 03, 2015 6:00 am - The online federal insurance marketplace opened for business Sunday. It’s the third year of open enrollment for these subsidized plans, established by the Affordable C...
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Constable: Weather's great, but no daylight after work to enjoy itNov 03, 2015 4:27 am - The thermometer should edge into the 70s today. Too bad it will be too dark to see it. Our giddiness about the return of glorious fall weather is tempered by the arrival...
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Why Lake County employee health bonuses cost taxpayers $167,373Nov 03, 2015 12:00 am - When Lake County's annual 5K run got underway last year it cost taxpayers an additional $11,850. That's because 237 government employees registered for the race and rece...