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Letter to the editor: Whitehall Rehabilitation Center has outstanding care
1+ week, 2+ day ago (105+ words) I wish to acknowledge the outstanding care that I recently received at Whitehall Rehabilitation Center in our own Deerfield. As a 40-year internal medicine practitioner in Highland Park and Deerfield, I had 30 years exposure to Whitehall as I visited my…...
Actress Christina Applegate reportedly has been hospitalized since late March
1+ week, 6+ day ago (301+ words) Christina Applegate has reportedly been hospitalized in Los Angeles since late March, amid the Emmy winner's enduring battle with multiple sclerosis. The 54-year-old "Dead to Me" star's representative would not confirm the information given to TMZ by sources with direct…...
Juez aprueba plan de Purdue Pharma, fabricante del Oxy Contin, tras crisis de opioides en EEUU
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (672+ words) Un juez de bancarrotas aprob" formalmente el martes el plan de Purdue Pharma, el fabricante de Oxy Contin, para resolver miles de demandas sobre los da'os causados por los opioides en Estados Unidos. El juez federal Sean Lane, dio sus…...
Investigadores prueban un enfoque audaz para tratar mejor las enfermedades autoinmunes
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (1036+ words) Estamos entrando en una nueva era, dijo el doctor Maximilian Konig, reumat'logo de la Universidad Johns Hopkins, quien estudia algunos de los posibles tratamientos nuevos. Estos ofrecen la oportunidad de controlar la enfermedad de una manera que no hab'amos visto…...
The best posture-correcting brace for daily comfort and support
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (608+ words) Long gone are the days of hunting and foraging. Instead, we sit " in our cars, on the couch, at our desks and everywhere else. This endless sitting is a big cause of back pain, especially as maintaining a proper posture…...
Soothe aching hands with the best fingerless gloves for arthritis
6+ mon, 1+ day ago (728+ words) Whether it's your wrist, palm or fingers, pain or discomfort due to hand-related arthritis can make life tough. Thankfully, there are ways to minimize these symptoms, like wearing fingerless gloves specially designed to help ease pain, stiffness or swelling. When…...
Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening.
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (870+ words) Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes his guitar and ukulele. In the recovery unit of UC San Diego Health, Salaysay helps patients manage pain after surgery. Along with…...
Following Trump Tylenol announcement, Chicago area OB-GYNs fielding questions, concerns
7+ mon, 3+ day ago (1199+ words) Patients often have many questions for Dr. Ashish Premkumar, an OB-GYN who specializes in high-risk pregnancies. But before this week, he wouldn't have expected the safety of Tylenol to be at the top of the list of concerns for his…...
Trump's Tylenol and vaccine warnings leave some pregnant women concerned, others angry
7+ mon, 6+ day ago (780+ words) Faith Ayer had no qualms about taking Tylenol for chronic migraines and COVID-19 during her pregnancy, and grew disappointed and angry as she watched President Donald Trump rail against the pain medicine. "A lot of the claims that were shared…...
Dr. Trump? The president reprises his COVID era, this time sharing unproven medical advice on autism
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (769+ words) WASHINGTON " President Donald Trump isn't a doctor. But he played one on TV Monday, offering copious amounts of unproven medical advice that he suggested " often without providing evidence " might help reduce autism rates. Trump repeatedly implored pregnant women to avoid…...