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Archive for April, 2008

Dust mites… EEEW!

Posted in Consumer Health, Diseases & Conditions, Health, Health-E Illinois, tagged , , on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

On Tuesday of last week I took a day off to do some spring cleaning. I was astonished by how much dust accumulated from the last time I dusted (less than two weeks ago) and was wondering: “What exactly is IN that dust?”
The answer is that there are a lot of different things in dust. [...]

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National Library of Medicine Releases Drug Information Portal

Posted in Databases, Health-E Illinois, NLM, tagged , on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the release of the NLM Drug Information Portal. The site is at http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov. The NLM Drug Information Portal gives the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers a gateway to current, accurate and understandable drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies.
More than [...]

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West Nile Virus

Posted in Consumer Health, Diseases & Conditions, Health, Health-E Illinois, tagged , , on April 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

After a long and very cold winter here in Chicago, spring is finally here! So now is the time to remember to protect your home and family from West Nile Virus. West Nile has been in Illinois since 2001. In 2005 and 2006 there were several hundred human cases and several deaths from this potentially [...]

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Hospice?

Posted in Consumer Health, Go Local, Health, Health-E Illinois, Reviewed Articles, tagged , , , , , , on April 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Anyone facing a terminal illness, or who is caring for someone afflicted by a terminal illness, needs to know about hospice. Hospice focuses on emotional and spiritual needs in addition to medical needs. It can be provided at either at a patient’s home or at an inpatient facility. Hospice offers palliative care [...]

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