Articles filed under Health
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Your Health: Smoking top risk for heart diseaseFeb 21, 2010 10:00 pm - Affairs of the heart Harvard Medical School's Healthbeat reports: bull; Smoking is the top risk factor for heart disease. But for women on birth control pills,...
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Marijuana use by seniors goes up as boomers ageFeb 21, 2010 10:00 pm - MIAMI -- In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some c...
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Seinfeld's Jason Alexander the latest to pitch weight-loss programs to menFeb 21, 2010 10:00 pm - George Costanza is no Dan Marino, and that may signal an important shift in dieting culture. When the weight-loss company NutriSystem launched its men's program in 2006,...
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Suburban drug culture forum at Lake Zurich High SchoolFeb 17, 2010 10:00 pm - An educational forum about the suburban drug culture will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday at Lake Zurich High School, 300 Church St. The forum was originally scheduled for...
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Northwest Community Hospital to hold heart screeningsFeb 17, 2010 10:00 pm - February is nationally recognized as American Heart Month, and Northwest Community Hospital (NCH) is raising awareness by reminding people to evaluate their risk of hear...
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Genetic testing proving effective in wiping out diseasesFeb 16, 2010 10:00 pm - Some of mankind's most devastating inherited diseases appear to be declining, and a few have nearly disappeared, because more people are using genetic testing to decide ...
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DuPage, Kendall residents area's healthiestFeb 16, 2010 10:00 pm - Health in the suburbs is much better than the rest of the state, a national analysis found, but researchers found troubling discrepancies among the collar counties. DuPa...
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Dog is an important part of the Alexian teamFeb 16, 2010 10:00 pm - Most days, Mitzi, a mixed breed Cocker spaniel and Welsh corgi, spends her days quietly in Elk Grove Village happily living with members of the Alexian Brothers at their...
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The price of thin: Comparing the diet meal delivery plansFeb 14, 2010 10:00 pm - The price of losing weight for 22-year-old Thomas Ferraro is about $300 a month. That's how much he pays for Nutrisystem to ship low-cal meals to his doorstep. The food ...
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'Thirdhand' smokes forms lasting cancer-causing residueFeb 14, 2010 10:00 pm - Tobacco smoke contamination lingering on furniture, clothes and other surfaces, dubbed thirdhand smoke, may react with indoor air chemicals to form potential cancer-caus...