Articles filed under Health
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Melodic medicine: Research shows music helps ease pain from surgery or illnessNov 29, 2025 9:31 am - Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. “There’s often a cycle of worry, pain, anxiety in a hospital,” he said, “but you can help break that cycle with music.”
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Children’s health: How safe is that holiday gift for your kids?Nov 28, 2025 8:09 am - For many families, gift giving is one of the joys of the holiday season. Unfortunately, not all toys are as safe as they appear. Even popular, well-reviewed toys can pose serious safety risks, including choking or ingestion hazards that may lead to life-threatening complications.
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Ask the doctors: Strong bones aren’t built by calcium aloneNov 28, 2025 8:04 am - Calcium does not act alone in bone remodeling during perimenopause. It is tied to vitamin D, zinc, magnesium, phosphate and vitamin K — more specifically, vitamin K2.
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Patient advocate: New website is a medical library at your fingertipsNov 28, 2025 8:02 am - There’s a lot of medical misinformation out there, much of it promulgated by nonmedical individuals based on nothing more than assumptions and unwarranted conclusions. But what if you could find published, peer-reviewed answers to your medical questions, written in everyday language? Good news. You can!
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Trump administration says lower prices for 15 Medicare drugs will save taxpayers billionsNov 26, 2025 8:10 pm - Pharmaceutical companies have agreed to slash the Medicare prices for 15 prescription drugs after months of negotiations, reductions that are expected to produce billions in savings for taxpayers and older adults, the Trump administration said.
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Hoffman Estates presents panel discussion on memory loss at Schaumburg Library Dec. 10Nov 26, 2025 11:53 am - The Hoffman Estates Dementia Friendly Community Committee will present “Alice’s Journey Through Memory Loss” panel discussion from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, Dec. 10 in the Rasumussen Room of the Schaumburg Township Central Library at 130 S. Roselle Road in Schaumburg.
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‘A rare breed’: At 90, this Arlington Heights runner is an ultramarathon manNov 23, 2025 8:58 am - Gene Bruckert, a 90-year-old Arlington Heights resident, has completed some 300 marathons and 300 ultramarathons since taking up long-distance running in retirement.
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Perimenopause: How to tell the facts from the mythsNov 23, 2025 8:58 am - Perimenopause seems to be having a moment. About a third of women in their 40s and 50s say they hear about the natural physiological process marking the end of a woman’s reproductive years extremely or very often. Whether it’s in the news or on social media, information on hormone therapies, night sweats and treatments for relief is flooding conversations.
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Children’s health: When to take your child to the emergency departmentNov 23, 2025 8:56 am - If your child breaks a bone, struggles to breathe or suffers frightening thoughts that tell them life isn't worth living, will you know how to help them? Injuries are the number one cause of death among kids in the U.S., so families need to prepare themselves to act when seconds count.
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‘Eating disorder’ and ‘disordered eating’ are not the sameNov 23, 2025 8:55 am - During the holidays, many families will gather for festive meals. If you pay attention to how and what a tween, teen or young adult is eating, you may detect a pattern that could indicate something is “off” about their approach to food. So that makes this an appropriate time to discuss what constitutes an eating disorder.