Articles filed under Health
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Arlington Hts. firefighters feed the holiday spiritDec 23, 2010 10:00 pm - Amanda Schauer and her fiance will be busy making the holiday rounds this weekend at family parties in Schaumburg, Buffalo Grove, St. Charles, McHenry and near DeKalb. ...
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Northwest Community Hospital 'visionary' diesDec 15, 2010 10:00 pm - One of the longest-serving board members of Northwest Community Hospital, who helped shaped the campus during its years of greatest expansion, has died. Robert DiVall se...
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Judge strikes down federal health care lawDec 12, 2010 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's historic health care overhaul hit its first major legal roadblock Monday, thrown into doubt by a federal judge's declaration that t...
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Good Shepherd holds lectures in BarringtonDec 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington has announced its winter lecture series. Experts will discuss women's health issues on Tuesday, Jan. 18; cardiac risk facto...
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Prohibit these drinks once and for allDec 07, 2010 10:00 pm - In a popular carnival game, the object is to pound down “moles” that pop up from holes in a platform. No matter how fast a player is with the mallet, the plastic figures...
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Pfizer CEO Kindler steps down unexpectedlyDec 04, 2010 10:00 pm - Jeffrey B. Kindler, Pfizer Inc.'s CEO and chairman, stepped down unexpectedly Sunday after 4½ years leading the world's biggest drugmaker, saying he needs to "recharge h...
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Walgreens reports November sales increaseDec 02, 2010 10:00 pm - Deerfield-based Walgreens reported that sales at stores open a least a year increased 3.2 percent in November. The effect of calendar day shifts positively impacted tot...
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Judge: No class status in light cigarette lawsuitNov 29, 2010 10:00 pm - BANGOR, Maine -- A federal judge in Maine has declined to grant class status to smokers who're suing Philip Morris and its parent company over light cigarettes. U.S. Dis...
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Do-it-yourself blood drug a threat to BaxterNov 21, 2010 10:00 pm - Sara Ahrens pinches her thigh, pushes a half-inch needle into her skin and turns on a pump. Then she sits back to watch “Grey's Anatomy” at her Long Beach, California ho...
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Health-care reform starts to be felt during open enrollmentNov 21, 2010 10:00 pm - Despite changes resulting from health-care reform, medical insurance open enrollment went smoothly for Lizette McNellis, an assistant vice president at Zurich North Amer...