Articles filed under Health
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St. Charles woman uses proton therapy to beat tumorJul 07, 2012 11:00 pm - Heaven Alcorn's father died in 2008 from stomach cancer. So when her gynecologist discovered a tumor the size of a cantaloupe in her abdomen three years later, fear wash...
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Why is broccoli America’s most despised vegetable?Jul 07, 2012 7:11 am - There’s a 1928 New Yorker cartoon in which a chic-looking mother sits at a dinner table with her young daughter and urges to eat what’s on her plate: “It’s broccoli, dea...
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Dialysis facility opening in StreamwoodJul 06, 2012 9:00 am - Tom Pullia spends up to 30 minutes driving to and from a dialysis facility in Schaumburg. But starting Monday, his drive will be cut to less than five minutes. “It's goi...
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Butterfly art project colors Northwest suburbs this summerJul 05, 2012 8:00 am - Mount Prospect, Des Plaines and Park Ridge have gotten a bit more colorful recently. Rainbow Hospice, which is based in Mount Prospect and has connections to all three ...
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FDA lays out medical device tracking systemJul 04, 2012 7:00 am - WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators are proposing a new system to track millions of medical devices used in the U.S., an effort which they say will help protect patie...
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Spin meter: Meet the health care taxJul 03, 2012 12:00 pm - WASHINGTON — It looks like a tax, smells like a tax, and the Supreme Court says it must be a tax. But politicians in both parties are squirming over how to define the Th...
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FDA lays out medical device identifier systemJul 03, 2012 10:25 am - WASHINGTON — Federal health regulators are proposing a new system to track millions of medical devices used in the U.S., an effort which they say will help protect patie...
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Healthcare ruling affects suburban candidates' spinJun 30, 2012 11:00 pm - Experts: Decision a win for Obama but gives GOP ammunition too
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For Obama, health-care legacy remains tenuousJun 30, 2012 8:49 pm - WASHINGTON — Presidents live in a world of wins and losses quickly forgotten. Rarely are they presented with the kind of defining moment that President Barack Obama expe...
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Editorial: Move beyond rancor on health careJun 28, 2012 2:15 pm - In his opinion for the Supreme Court majority upholding the basic foundations of the national health care law, Chief Justice John Roberts may have said nothing more impo...