Articles filed under Health
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Deepak Chopra has a prescription for what ails technologyJan 12, 2019 5:00 am - LAS VEGAS — Deepak Chopra pulls back his sleeve to show me his Fitbit. His heart rate is 69 beats per minute. “I can consciously bring it down,” he says. “This technolog...
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How your at-home DNA test results could solve cold casesJan 12, 2019 5:00 am - The results seem almost miraculous: an arrest in the killing of a young girl in 1988 after 30 years of searching. The murder of a young couple in 1987, solved in a matte...
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After medical emergencies, Schaumburg addresses carbon monoxide danger in hookah loungesJan 11, 2019 12:00 am - Schaumburg officials last year learned the hard way about a danger to hookah lounges they hadn't previously considered: carbon monoxide poisoning. After three medical em...
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Elderly, conservatives shared more Facebook fakery in 2016Jan 09, 2019 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Sharing false information on Facebook is old. People over 65 and ultra conservatives shared about seven times more fake information masquerading as news on ...
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Lake County offers free mental health first aid trainingJan 09, 2019 12:00 am - The Lake County Health Department is hosting a free weeklong class to train approved instructors to teach an adult mental health first aid course. Training normally cost...
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How phone apps could help monitor your teen's angstJan 05, 2019 5:30 am - Rising suicide rates and depression in U.S. teens and young adults have prompted researchers to ask a provocative question: Could the same devices that some people blame...
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Rich, drunk and high as a teen, he flunked out of Oakton. Now, he's a Hollywood agent who helps others.Jan 03, 2019 4:00 am - Drinking to excess, using drugs and living high on the hog as a trust-fund kid, James Crane bailed out of Oakton College in Des Plaines before he was even old enough to ...
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Differences in Tobacco 21 villages could mean headaches, fines for young smokersDec 29, 2018 12:00 am - Starting New Year's Day, smokers will need to be at least 21 to buy - or even possess - tobacco products in Lake Zurich, making it the latest town to join a move aimed a...
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'This isn't a slam dunk': Why legalizing pot could test Pritzker's cloutDec 28, 2018 4:30 am - A vote on legalizing recreational marijuana could be Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker's first clout test with his own party. Despite Democrats controlling the Illinois House, Se...
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Book review: How running transformed the life of NPR host Peter SagalDec 22, 2018 6:27 am - "The Incomplete Book of Running" by Peter Sagal, Simon & Schuster, 208 pages You'll want to love Peter Sagal's book, "The Incomplete Book of Running," especially if...