Articles filed under Health
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Healthier District 211 lunches draw USDA attentionSep 20, 2014 7:15 am - A VIP's visit to Palatine High School Friday provided the U.S. Department of Agriculture with useful information toward the evolution of national nutrition guidelines, a...
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Illinois awards $25.8 million in health outreach grantsSep 19, 2014 1:01 am - Most of the same Illinois organizations that helped consumers sign up for insurance in the first year of President Barack Obama's expanded health coverage will receive a...
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Horizon stockholders approve Vidara acquisitionSep 18, 2014 1:01 am - Deerfield-basedHorizon Pharma stockholders approved the company's acquisition of Vidara Therapeutics, opening the company to move its headquarters to Ireland. Horizon Ph...
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Bartlett OKs medical pot production in business parkSep 17, 2014 5:30 am - With the state's backing, a medical marijuana grower could start planting in a Bartlett industrial park, village trustees decided Tuesday night. Four would-be producers ...
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Palatine council nixes proposed medical marijuana dispensarySep 16, 2014 5:30 am - The Palatine village council rejected a proposal to allow a medical marijuana distribution center in the village after a lengthy debate at the village hall Monday evenin...
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Batavia leaders support medical marijuana grow centerSep 16, 2014 5:30 am - Batavia leaders not only don't have objections to having a medical marijuana cultivation center in town, but they are supporting a company's application for one. The cit...
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Abbott named a Top 10 company for working mothersSep 16, 2014 1:01 am - Libertyville Township-based Abbott Laboratories was named among the Top 10 companies in Working Mother's 100 Best Companies list, which commends companies for establishi...
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Google buys startup Lift Labs to expand disease researchSep 14, 2014 7:11 am - Bloomberg News Google Inc. is acquiring health- technology startup Lift Labs to add to its Google X research unit, as the company pursues new methods to address neurodeg...
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Alexian Brothers says no to medical pot firms' donationsSep 13, 2014 7:30 am - Medical marijuana businesses would have donated to hospital
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iPhones with bigger screens may find eager buyers among seniorsSep 13, 2014 7:22 am - Eden Adams, 65, is ready to upgrade after using her iPhone for about three years. The schoolteacher from Fremont, California, had looked at her daughter's Samsung Electr...