Articles filed under Health
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Illinois OKs 2,800 marijuana patients, including 10 childrenAug 05, 2015 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois officials say 10 children are among the 2,800 patients approved to use medical marijuana in the state's new program. Most of the children have sei...
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Open house for Good Sam's new cardio pavilionAug 03, 2015 11:00 pm - Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital will hold a public dedication and open house for its new Deb and Alan Feldman Cardiovascular Pavilion at 4 p.m. Aug. 25 at the hospital,...
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Corporate America is doing something about your insomniaAug 02, 2015 7:32 am - Corporate America has long tried to help its employees stop smoking, eat healthier and get in better shape. More recently, companies have been rolling out ways to help t...
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Your smartphone could become a tool for medical researchJul 31, 2015 11:00 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — Jody Kearns doesn't like to spend time obsessing about her Parkinson's disease. The 56-year-old dietitian from Syracuse, New York, had to give up bicycli...
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IBM, CVS bring Watson to health careJul 31, 2015 11:00 pm - IBM is teaming with CVS Health to harness the power of the Watson supercomputing brain to transform how the care of patients with chronic conditions is managed. Under a ...
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Experimental Ebola vaccine highly effective in early trialsJul 31, 2015 1:00 am - LONDON - An experimental Ebola vaccine tested on thousands of people in Guinea seems to work and might help shut down the waning epidemic in West Africa, according to in...
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Why dentists are so darn richJul 30, 2015 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - At $50,000, the reported price of the trip that an American dentist took to Zimbabwe is nearly as shocking as the death of Cecil, the widely known and unive...
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Arlington Heights rehab center aims to be more hotel than hospitalJul 29, 2015 1:00 am - Officials at the first stand-alone short-term rehabilitation center in the Northwest suburbs say they hope a stay at the Arlington Heights facility will be more like a h...
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Wheaton College stops student health care over birth control objectionsJul 28, 2015 1:00 am - Wheaton College will no longer offer students health care coverage plans starting Friday. The college announced last month that they would stop student insurance plans t...
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Aurora Planned Parenthood facility target of anti-abortion groupsJul 28, 2015 1:00 am - As Planned Parenthood struggles to explain its practice of acquiring the tissues of aborted fetuses for medical research, several Illinois-based anti-abortion groups are...