Articles filed under Health
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How and where to get free vaccines in Park RidgeOct 29, 2023 1:00 am - Editor's note: The date of the event has been corrected. You can get free vaccines for influenza, COVID-19 and other diseases on Nov. 7, at the Maine Township hall ...
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EPA to strengthen lead protections in drinking water after multiple crises, including FlintOct 28, 2023 1:00 am - About four decades ago, when the Environmental Protection Agency was first trying to figure out what to do about lead in drinking water, Ronnie Levin quantified its dama...
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St. Thomas the Apostle offers 'Handling Grief During the Holidays'Oct 23, 2023 11:00 pm - The holidays may be a very painful and difficult time if you and your family have experienced the death of loved ones during the past few years. All around us, our cultu...
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Communities can't recycle or trash disposable e-cigarettes. So what happens to them?Oct 19, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - With the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to safely get rid of millions ...
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UnitedHealthcare and RUSH Health agree to multiyear Medicare Advantage relationshipOct 19, 2023 1:00 am - UnitedHealthcare and RUSH Health have established a new relationship that gives UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plan members network access to all RUSH Health locati...
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Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital opens retail pharmacyOct 15, 2023 11:00 pm - Downers Grove, Ill. – Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital opened a new retail pharmacy Monday morning (Oct. 16) on its campus, enabling discharged patients to have their pr...
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New St. Charles mental health center ribbon cuttingOct 10, 2023 11:00 pm - The St. Charles Area Chamber of Commerce will have a ribbon cutting for the new location of the Ecker Center for Behavioral Health at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at 1652 E. Main S...
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Women On The Brink hosts forum on children in poverty and mental healthOct 08, 2023 11:00 pm - Women On The Brink: Elgin Area offers its 2023 fall forum, "Elgin's Children in Poverty: Focus on Mental Health" on Thursday, Oct. 19. It will be 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Ga...
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A new vaccine joins the fall lineupSep 30, 2023 11:00 pm - Do you remember seeing on the news last fall and winter that hospitals were running out of pediatric beds because a dangerous virus called RSV was making babies and youn...
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Do-over or do nothing? Townships face question over mental health board referendumsSep 30, 2023 1:00 am - Prompted by an apparent flaw in the wording of a 2022 referendum question voters approved to create a community mental health board, Wheeling Township plans to call for ...