Articles filed under Health
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Too many kids breathe others' smoke in cars: CDCFeb 05, 2012 10:00 pm - Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list. In t...
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Illinois Medicaid official sees ‘crisis’Feb 05, 2012 6:45 am - Given the state’s financial predicament, lawmakers will need to consider every possible strategy for cutting the state’s Medicaid budget this year, Illinois Department o...
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Rate of post-injury survival rises in Afghan warFeb 05, 2012 5:09 am - WASHINGTON — There has probably never been a war in which there has been as much on-the-job improvement in the care of the wounded than there has been in the United Stat...
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Rush-Copley selects Medicity to handle health informationFeb 01, 2012 11:00 pm - Marketwire AURORA — Rush-Copley Medical Centesaid it selected Medicity health information exchange technology to facilitate affiliated physicians’ access to clinical res...
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Unlicensed Gurnee assisted-living facility faces more problemsFeb 01, 2012 4:30 am - An assisted-living facility that's been operating unlicensed for three years must cross a new hurdle in its quest to remain open in Gurnee. Village board members last we...
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Centegra, Mercy appeal hospital rejections from state boardJan 31, 2012 11:00 pm - Undeterred by not one, but two rejections from the state that killed Centegra and Mercy health systems' plans to build new hospitals in McHenry County, both groups are m...
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Pfizer recalls 1 million birth-control packs on wrong dosageJan 31, 2012 11:00 pm - Pfizer Inc., the world’s biggest drugmaker, recalled 1 million birth-control packs after discovering that pills were mixed up inside the packages, possibly putting women...
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Gates Foundation, drugmakers push on tropical illsJan 30, 2012 11:00 pm - Thirteen major pharmaceutical companies, government groups and health charities will work together in a push to eliminate or control by 2020 10 tropical diseases that af...
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Drug approved to treat cystic fibrosis’ root causeJan 30, 2012 11:00 pm - The first drug that treats the root cause of cystic fibrosis won approval Tuesday, offering a life-changing treatment for a handful of patients with the deadly illness, ...
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Alexian Brothers receives $1 million donationJan 29, 2012 11:00 pm - Canadian National, one of the largest railroads in North America with extensive operations in Chicago’s suburbs, has donated $1 million to the Alexian Brothers Foundatio...