Articles filed under Health
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Centralizing organ removal may benefit transplantsFeb 25, 2014 12:01 am - For decades, surgeons have traveled to far-off hospitals to remove organs from brain-dead donors and then rushed back to transplant them. Now an experiment in the Midwes...
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Northwest Community doctors join Illinois Health Partners networkFeb 25, 2014 12:00 am - Northwest Community Healthcare's Physician Hospital Organization announced Tuesday it will join Illinois Health Partners, a network that includes physicians from DuPage ...
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Mundelein-based Medline signs procedure tray dealFeb 24, 2014 12:01 am - Medline Industries in Mundelein said it has been selected by the Upper Midwest Consolidated Services Center, a member-driven, member-owned health care supply network ass...
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WSPN announces 2014 Philanthropy Awards honoreesFeb 24, 2014 12:01 am - Daily Herald News Services The Wheaton-based West Suburban Philanthropic Network announced the 2014 honorees to be feted at the 12th Annual Philanthropy Awards Luncheon....
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Glenview's SurePayroll wins 6 sales, customer service awardsFeb 24, 2014 12:01 am - Glenview-based SurePayroll, a provider of online payroll services to small business nationwide, received six internationally recognized Stevie Awards for Sales & Custome...
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Lincolnshire's Zebra Technologies, Kit Check to partnerFeb 24, 2014 12:01 am - Lincolnshire-based Zebra Technologies announced a strategic partnership with Kit Check, a provider of automated hospital pharmacy kit processing software, that will inte...
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Governors: Buzz about legalized pot just smokeFeb 22, 2014 12:01 am - WASHINGTON - All the buzz at the National Governors Association meeting over legalizing pot, some say, is just smoke. Nearly three months after Colorado began selling r...
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Colorado, Utah move to hike smoking age to 21Feb 21, 2014 12:01 am - DENVER - Two Western states with some of the nation's lowest smoking rates are considering cracking down even more by raising the tobacco age to 21. Utah and Colorado l...
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What parents should know before – and after – a tonsillectomyFeb 19, 2014 4:45 am - For baby boomers growing up in the '60s, getting your tonsils removed was almost a rite of passage. Today nearly half a million children under the age of 15 have their t...
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Actavis to buy Forest Labs in $25 billion dealFeb 18, 2014 6:30 pm - AP Business Writers Actavis PLC plans to buy Forest Laboratories Inc. for about $25 billion, catapulting little-known Actavis into the world's No. 15 drugmaker, with an ...