Articles filed under Health
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Northwest Community nursing care recognizedSep 17, 2010 11:00 pm - Northwest Community Hospital has retained its status as providing nursing care that ranks among the best in the country, the Arlington Heights hospital has announced. A ...
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AMA co-convenes meeting on improving doctor trainingSep 15, 2010 11:00 pm - The American Medical Association is co-convening a national conference on medical education. The idea is to make sure doctor training keeps up with changes in the nation...
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Des Plaines man turned sports injury into inspirationSep 14, 2010 11:00 pm - Des Plaines native Michael Schwass was one of Illinois' top prep hockey players when he took a check into the boards during a game in 1975 that left him a quadriplegic. ...
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Group holds community meeting on housing for the mentally illSep 13, 2010 11:00 pm - The group that wants to build supportive, low-income housing for mentally ill people in north Arlington Heights will hold an informational meeting at 7:30 p.m. today at ...
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Autism expert at HarperSep 13, 2010 11:00 pm - For three decades, Jane Thierfeld Brown has researched students with autism and Asperger Syndrome and their experiences in higher education. From 7 to 9 p.m. today, she'...
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P.L.A.Y. Project teaches parents how to engage autistic childrenSep 12, 2010 11:00 pm - ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Joy Falahee thought she knew how to play with her 2-year-old, Alexa. There she was holding a plastic microphone, pretending to talk to Alexa. Ther...
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Restroom spies say we're washing hands more oftenSep 12, 2010 11:00 pm - BOSTON -- Swine flu may have scared us straight, or maybe we're finally listening to our mothers. Whatever the reason, Americans are washing their hands more often, sugg...
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Bloomingdale couple at forefront of study on miscarriagesSep 12, 2010 11:00 pm - A just-released University of Chicago Medical Center study shows that a blood procedure thought to prevent miscarriages isn't the magic remedy. Instead, as one Bloomingd...
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Boost immune system now before cold season arrivesSep 12, 2010 11:00 pm - Last school year was a particularly brutal one, minor-illness-wise, for the Butler family, complete with runny noses, hacking coughs and the not-so-occasional stomach fl...
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Biting back at bedbugs: Americans' mobile lifestyle part of the problemSep 12, 2010 11:00 pm - The brown bugs, each about half the size of a pencil eraser, lie in glass petri dishes - a few on their backs, legs in the air. They died within seconds of scurrying acr...