Articles filed under Health
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California Withdraws Bid To Allow Undocumented Immigrants To Buy Unsubsidized Obamacare PlansJan 20, 2017 6:00 am - Lawmakers in Sacramento have halted a first-in-the-nation effort by California to expand access to health coverage for immigrants living in the state without legal docum...
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Four Northwest suburban police departments compete to lose weightJan 19, 2017 12:00 am - Cops in four Northwest suburbs will be battling it out to see who loses the most weight over the next two months. Max Muscle Sports Nutrition, a health supplement store ...
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Large Employer Health Plans Could Also See Some Impacts From Obamacare OverhaulJan 17, 2017 6:00 am - If you think that because you get health insurance through your job at a big company, you won’t be affected if Republicans overhaul Obamacare, think again. Several of ...
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Can expansion of liquor licenses, alcohol prevention efforts co-exist in peace?Jan 16, 2017 4:30 am - Editor's note: This story has been updated to list 1,008 as the number of traffic deaths last year in Illinois. A suburban downtown sees too many rowdy bar patrons ...
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Healthy Lombard plans Fitness FairJan 15, 2017 10:00 pm - The Healthy Lombard Foundation will sponsor its seventh annual Fitness February Fair next month in Yorktown Center. The fair will be from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, ...
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As Obamacare Repeal Heats Up, Newly Insured North Carolinians FretJan 13, 2017 6:00 am - Darlene Hawes lost her health insurance about a year after her husband died in 2012. Hawes, 55, is from Charlotte, N.C. She ended up going without insurance for a few ye...
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How families can join study probing genetics of autismJan 13, 2017 4:00 am - Courtney McClear has autism and, for the first time, her relatives believe they can do something to find out why. The McClears plan to sign up Saturday for a nationwide...
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Wilson tapped as Holy Family presidentJan 13, 2017 12:00 am - Presence Health, the largest Catholic health care system in Illinois, announced the appointment of Yolande Wilson as the new president of Presence Holy Family Medical Ce...
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Hospital seeks bone marrow match for leukemia patientJan 13, 2017 12:00 am - Northwest Community Healthcare is hosting a bone marrow registry drive in hopes of finding a match for a man with leukemia. The Arlington Heights hospital is looking for...
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Father, writer to share addiction journey story in three suburbsJan 11, 2017 10:00 pm - A parent who's been through the struggle of a child's addiction and also knows how to write about it will be making three free presentations in the Western suburbs this ...