Breaking News Bar

Health Care

Suburban health insurance providers sue opioid manufacturers, prescribers

By Kim Mikus
Oct 16, 2018 7:03 PM - Two suburban-based nonprofit risk pools that provide more than 203 local municipalities with employee health insurance filed a joint lawsuit against leading opioid manufacturers, distributors, professional associations and prescribers.
What is dyslexia? Not what you think, experts say

By Marie Wilson
Oct 15, 2018 6:30 AM - Think dyslexia is about flipping letters or reading backward? Think again, experts say. Here's why this learning disability is as misunderstood as it is common.
Parent action hopes to help reading work for kids with dyslexia

By Marie Wilson
Oct 15, 2018 5:30 AM - Here's how a dyslexia advocacy group is working with one suburban school district to increase screening and resources for students.
Lake County sheriff's office to host three drug take back events

Daily Herald report
Oct 14, 2018 5:24 PM - The Lake County sheriff's office is partnering with the DEA and hosting three drug take back programs on Oct. 27 in Beach Park, Long Grove and Volo.
How one diabetes prevention program changed two lives

By Keith Hartenberger
Oct 14, 2018 1:00 AM - Edward-Elmhurst Health's Jumpstart Your Health diabetes prevention program has been so effective it has been cited twice by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Walk to Remember honors babies Sunday in Arlington Heights

Daily Herald report
Oct 12, 2018 1:47 PM - Northwest Community Healthcare will host its annual event to honor and remember babies lost through miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, stillbirth and newborn death during its Walk to Remember at 2 p.m. Sunday.
EDITORIAL: Josh Hawley wants to end Obamacare. He doesn't have a better idea

Kansas City Star
Oct 11, 2018 10:56 PM - U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley continues to struggle with facts and logic in the debate over health insurance in America and coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions. Hawley, the Republican looking to knock off Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, recently wrote a column outlining his plan to protect patients with pre-existing conditions from losing health insurance.
Obamacare Premiums Dip For First Time. Some Call It A Correction.

Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News and Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News
Oct 11, 2018 4:45 PM - After two years of double-digit price hikes, the average premium for individual health coverage on the federal health law’s insurance marketplace will drop by 1.5 percent for 2019, the Trump administration said Thursday. The announcement marked the first time average premiums have fallen since the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act went into effect in 2014.
United Way to launch human services 211 hotline in Lake County this spring

By Russell Lissau
Oct 10, 2018 11:57 AM - A telephone hotline that will connect callers with health services and other resources will launch in Lake County in spring 2019.
6th Cong. Dist.: How candidates want health care to change

By Marie Wilson
Oct 8, 2018 5:30 AM - Health Care spurred much of the Democratic opposition to Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Roskam, and it continues to be a divisive issue in the race for his 6th District seat.

Show 1-10 of 1,196 next »

Contact Us
155 E. Algonquin Road
Arlington Heights, IL 60005

Copyright 2018 by the Daily Herald Business Ledger

Sections close