Articles filed under Health
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Kids' dental hygiene program at Palatine libraryFeb 01, 2018 12:00 am - Children's dental hygiene will be the focus of a Palatine Public Library District program from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 5. The program will feature a children's dent...
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Moving beyond naloxone to save addictsJan 31, 2018 10:00 pm - About 840 times, first responders in the collar counties have administered naloxone to people who'd overdosed on opioids and appeared to have plunged into death. In mos...
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Evolve Chiropractic: Holistic and Corrective Care in Downtown PalatineJan 30, 2018 10:00 pm - For Dr. Zachary Langgle, D.C., a chiropractor whose practice is Evolve Chiropractic's second Palatine location, his career was a relatively easy choice. "While I was an...
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What stresses teens in the suburbs? School, competition, peersJan 30, 2018 12:00 am - A survey of nearly 4,700 suburban seventh- and tenth-graders determined the top three sources of their stress: School, competition and peers. Not necessarily surprising...
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Edward-Elmhurst Health presciptions for strong opioids come with naloxone orderJan 29, 2018 4:30 am - A prescription for a strong dose of opioid pain relievers from one suburban health network now comes with something else: a doctor's order to get a backup medication in ...
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Stigma still stopping opioid users from seeking naloxoneJan 29, 2018 4:30 am - A drug that can reverse the breathing suppression caused by an opioid overdose is now available at 135 Illinois pharmacies or drug education centers that have a standing...
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After a naloxone revival, hospital protocol is to just let opioid addicts goJan 29, 2018 4:30 am - In a hospital emergency department, someone who has been revived from an opioid overdose using the reversal drug naloxone sometimes can be a relatively low-priority case...
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Healthy Home 2018 is green from the roof downJan 28, 2018 12:00 pm - A family can have the largest, most elegant house in the county, but if its components make family members ill - red eyes, headaches, rashes and so forth - it isn't much...
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Opioid antidote saves lives, but overdose survivors still need helpJan 27, 2018 12:00 am - Even lifesaving drugs have limits. That's the warning from some public health experts raising concerns over misperceptions about the opioid overdose reversal drug nalox...
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Repeat rescues: Sometimes naloxone saves a person multiple timesJan 27, 2018 12:00 am - Many police departments and county health officials like to say they've saved a life every time they use naloxone to revive an overdosing opioid user. But it's not that ...