Articles filed under Health
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Quinn announces $47 million for Cook County hospitalsAug 08, 2013 4:57 pm - Gov. Pat Quinn says the state will provide $47 million in grants to improve several Cook County hospitals. Quinn announced the grants Thursday at Mercy Hospital in Chica...
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Good Samaritan garden has kids excited about veggiesAug 08, 2013 1:31 pm - A new garden at the Good Samaritan Health and Wellness Center has kids excited about the unthinkable: vegetables. The garden program, started in early June by Kids Korn...
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‘Despicable Me’ screening for juvenile diabetesAug 07, 2013 5:33 pm - Barrington’s Catlow Theater and Walgreen’s are teaming up for a charity screening of “Despicable Me” to raise funds for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The fa...
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NCH unveils new patient delivery modelAug 06, 2013 2:36 pm - Northwest Community Healthcare has introduced a new service delivery model that is designed to coordinate and improve patient flow throughout the hospital. The initiativ...
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Personal ‘Obamacare’ accounts debutAug 06, 2013 9:10 am - WASHINGTON — You can now open your own personal “Obamacare” account — but you’ll have to wait awhile before you can actually use it to pick a health insurance plan. Just...
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Harper College foundation to hold Affordable Care Act SummitAug 05, 2013 3:12 pm - The Harper College Educational Foundation will host “The Affordable Care Act Summit,” for small business owners, human resources personnel, professional advisers and any...
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Wheaton's Downsizing by Design geared to reduce stress of movingAug 05, 2013 5:00 am - An interview with Pat Cerny Keplinger, a nurse and owner of Downsizing by Design. Q: Describe your business. What do you do? A: Our mission at Downsizing by Design is ...
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New Naperville gym for overweight exercisers onlyAug 04, 2013 8:00 am - Diane Reiter of Aurora noticed two types of people every time she started a membership at a gym — and she was neither. There were those who needed to lose only 10 or 15 ...
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Oil companies frack in coastal waters off CaliforniaAug 03, 2013 2:09 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — Companies prospecting for oil off California’s coast have used hydraulic fracturing on at least a dozen occasions to force open cracks beneath the seabed...
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Old tobacco playbook returns with e-cigarettesAug 03, 2013 2:04 pm - RICHMOND, Va. — Companies vying for a stake in the fast-growing electronic cigarette business are reviving the decades-old marketing tactics the tobacco industry used to...