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Hospital fees vary for same treatment, U.S. data show
Centegra Hospital in McHenry charged $36,000 for implanting a permanent pacemaker. Less than 30 miles away, Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan charged more than $165,000 for the same procedure. To treat a case of simple pneumonia, meanwhile, John H....
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Loyola University Chicago, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Government Health Care, Near West Side
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Engagement: Smith -- Vogel
Clark and Sally Smith of Petoskey are announcing the engagement of their daughter, Angela Kathleen Smith, to Christopher Tierney Vogel, son of James and Patricia Vogel of Tulsa, Okla. Angela and Christopher reside in Overland Park, Kan. Angela is an...
Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities
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Pastora San Juan Cafferty, 1940-2013
Pastora San Juan Cafferty, a native of Cuba, was a leading scholar and researcher on race and ethnicity at the University of Chicago as well as a leader in Chicago's Hispanic community. "Pastora tirelessly helped weave connections between the University...
Tags: Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Waste, Peoples Energy Corporation, George Washington University, Environmental Issues
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UIC to go tobacco-free this summer
RedEyeStudents, faculty and other employees of the University of Illinois at Chicago will have to kiss their tobacco products--and their electronic cigarettes--goodbye this summer thanks to a new tobacco-free campus policy that will go into effect July 1....Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Students, Electronics, Teaching and Learning, American Lung Association
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Love Notes: So many differences, and none of them matter
As conversational icebreakers in busy coffee shops go, Leo Schwartz's question had considerable promise: How does one re-fluff a feather pillow? The problem was, the man who answered was Dan Maher, and he was not the guy Leo was after. "Dan started...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Entertainment, Music Theater, New York City, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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Police investigating sexual assault near Rush Medical campus
Police are investigating a report of a sexual assault Sunday night near the Rush University Medical Center. The assault happened about 10:30 p.m. Sunday on the 1700 block of West Congress Parkway, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer...
Tags: Rush University Medical Center, Sex Crimes, Assault, Chicago Police Department
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3 injured in accident involving fire truck on South Side
Tribune reporterThree people were injured late this morning in an accident involving a fire truck on the South Side. The accident happened about 11:30 a.m. on the 5100 block of South Union Avenue in the city's Back of the Yards neighborhood, according to Fire Media...Tags: John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Fires, Hospitals and Clinics
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3 teens shot, 1 fatally, Saturday evening
Tribune reportersShootings on the West and South sides left a 17-year-old boy dead and two other teenagers wounded Saturday evening, authorities said. The fatal shooting happened about 6 p.m., as the 17-year-old and an 18-year-old were sitting in a car in the 2400 block...Tags: Heart of Chicago, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Near West Side, Shootings, Hospitals and Clinics
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Protein linked to Parkinson's found in patients before onset of symptoms
Richard Fiske Bailey tries hard not to let Parkinson's disease slow him down. He has a license to drive motorcycles. He bikes. He walks without a cane or walker. But there are moments when the disorder affects him, said Bailey, 59. Sometimes he drags...
Tags: Sigmoidoscopy, Rush University Medical Center, Medical Research, Symptoms, Diseases and Illnesses
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Sharing breast milk with other moms can be a life saver
For the first two weeks of Jayden Adams' life, the little boy, born 10 weeks premature at Advocate Lutheran General Children's Hospital, was nourished with donated human breast milk. Now six weeks old and thriving, Jayden's mother, Mandy, who lost...
Tags: Healthcare Provider, Entertainment, American Academy of Pediatrics, Breast Cancer, High Blood Pressure
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Former medical district commissioner charged in $3.7 million fraud
A former commissioner of the Illinois Medical District, his wife and two associates used several companies to steal $3.7 million or more in state money meant to fund medical programs for diseases like cancer and AIDS, prosecutors said today. South Side...
Tags: Cancer, Toni Preckwinkle, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Diseases and Illnesses, Justice System
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The roots of violence
The massacres in Aurora, Colo., and at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee. The shootings outside the Empire State Building, in which an ex-employee killed his boss. Escalating gang warfare. In recent months, violence seemed to erupt everywhere. To get a...
Tags: Testosterone, Fort Hood Shootings (2009), FBI, Empire State Building, Substance Abuse
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