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City health chief's food fight targets meat
Tribune reporterChicago health commissioner Dr. Terry Mason has a message for Chicagoans who enjoy devouring meat in all its fat-dripping, artery-clogging glory: Don't do it. As part of his campaign to slim down waists and lower blood pressure, blood sugar and...Tags: Greens, People, Health Organizations, Mustard, Roseland
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Walgreens to cut 1,000 salaried posts
Tribune reporterBreaking with its history to make an unheard-of management cutback, Walgreen Co. announced plans Thursday to eliminate 1,000 salaried positions over the next eight months—about half of them at the drugstore chain's Deerfield headquarters. Walgreens...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Walgreen Co.
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A physician who was a mentor, too
Muhlenberg College has produced many fine physicians who have returned to live and work in our community and by doing so, have given so much back. If you glance at a list of physicians at our local hospitals, you undoubtedly will come across dozens of...Tags: Whitehall, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics, Western Medicines, Muhlenberg College
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Ruling removes billing headache from emergency room visits
Winding up in the emergency room is bad enough. But the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that patients no longer have to worry about getting billed for emergency treatment charges that their HMOs fail to pay. Health maintenance organizations and...Tags: Santa Monica, Court Administration, Emergency Planning, Medical Services, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Police planned to arrest ex-Utah trooper blamed for Dallas shootings in separate case
SOUTHLAKE, Texas (AP) — An ex-Utah state trooper who police say was involved in a series of roadway shootings last month learned just hours before the deadly incidents that he would soon be arrested on burglary and robbery charges. Southlake police...Tags: Scott Miller, Murder, Texas, Police, Crimes
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Businesses offer incentives to bring in customers
Free antibiotics. Cheap steak dinners at luxury restaurants. Heavy markdowns on clothes and furniture. The option to return a new car if you lose your job. Discounted tickets to the symphony. As the country's recession has pushed consumers to curb...Tags: Employees, Groceries, Layoffs and Downsizing, Consumers, Furniture
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Sanjay Gupta: House (and Senate) calls
The Swampby Noam N. Levey and Matea Gold President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next U.S. surgeon general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a public face for his healthcare agenda. Best known......Tags: Heads of State, 2009 U.S. Presidential Transition, Hillary Clinton, AIDS, CNN
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Iowa drug czar wants to track sales in meth fight
Iowa's drug czar wants more monitoring of a key ingredient in cold and allergy medicine that's used to make methamphetamine. Gary Kendall says he'll asked the Legislature to require Iowa pharmacies to participate in an electronic system to track sales...Tags: Iowa, Sales, Electronics
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Conyers opposes CNN's Gupta for surgeon general
A key Democratic House member is rallying opposition to Dr. Sanjay Gupta becoming the next surgeon general, contending the 39-year-old CNN correspondent lacks experience. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., urged Democrats to...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Hillary Clinton, CNN, Parliament, Upper House
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Study finds that elective C-sections before 39 weeks raise risk to babies
Tribune NewspapersThousands of women put their babies at needless risk of respiratory problems, hypoglycemia and other ills by scheduling Caesarean-section deliveries too early, according to an analysis of more than 13,000 births published Thursday in The New England...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Boston, Reproduction, Colleges and Universities
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Ex-wife: Man shot by police had heart transplant
A man fatally shot by a police officer was unbalanced because of medication he was taking after a heart transplant operation, his ex-wife said. Sharon K. Thompson told The News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne that her former husband, Stephen T. Thompson, wasn'...Tags: Heart Disease, Murder, Pharmaceuticals, Crimes, Police
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E. Donald Two-Rivers 1945-2008: Ojibwa poet, playwright
Tribune reporterE. Donald Two-Rivers, an Ojibwa Indian who left Canada at 16 and settled in Chicago's then rough-and-tumble Uptown neighborhood, took up writing while behind bars for robbery. He went on to win a national award for short stories, start a Native...Tags: Uptown, Wisconsin, Green Mill, Economic Policy, Poetry
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