Articles filed under Health
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Health insurance mistakes to avoidNov 01, 2009 10:00 pm - Whether you're perusing your employer's open-enrollment packet or weighing your options after getting a pink slip, you may be facing some critical decisions about health...
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Protect your medical identity from theftNov 01, 2009 10:00 pm - Checking in at a doctor's office or hospital increasingly requires at least two documents - an insurance card and a photo ID. Don't take it too personally. The providers...
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Doctors give H1N1 vaccines to ailing kidsOct 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Doctors came through with H1N1 flu vaccines Thursday for some ailing children whose desperate parents had been unable to get the shots. Moved by the children's plight, a...
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Schaumburg woman delights in spooky fun - possibly for last timeOct 29, 2009 11:00 pm - At first glance, the house on Woodcroft Court in Schaumburg looks like something out of a Charles Dickens novel, with its overgrown brush in the front yard, boarded up w...
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Northwest suburban hospitals tighten visiting rulesOct 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Area hospitals are limiting visits by children in response to the outbreak of H1N1 flu. And all hospitals are asking that no one visit if they are displaying flu-like sy...
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Parents of ailing children desperately seek H1N1 vaccinesOct 28, 2009 11:00 pm - Eight-year-old Jenevieve Duczman has been hospitalized three times this year with pneumonia and other lung problems. Born 12 weeks prematurely, the Schaumburg girl has c...
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Arlington Heights will have H1N1 vaccine clinic SaturdayOct 28, 2009 11:00 pm - The Arlington Heights Health Services Department is the surprise recipient of 1,000 doses of the rare vaccine against H1N1 flu - apparently by mistake. Nevertheless, the...
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Study: Cholesterol drugs may improve flu survivalOct 28, 2009 11:00 pm - MILWAUKEE -- A new treatment for swine flu may already be on pharmacy shelves -- cholesterol-lowering statin drugs like Lipitor and Zocor. A large study found that peopl...
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Palatine only Cook suburb to get swine flu vaccine: is it fair?Oct 27, 2009 11:00 pm - Palatine grade school students and faculty soon will be the only members of the general public in suburban Cook County who can get the vaccine against the H1N1 flu virus...
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Hoffman Estates boy dies of swine flu-related illnessOct 27, 2009 11:00 pm - A 5-year-old Hoffman Estates boy died of complications from the H1N1 virus, officials confirmed. Michael Siver, a kindergartner at Thomas Jefferson School in Hoffman Es...