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Health and Fitness
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Most Americans get medical insurance from their employers, with the average worker paying 26% of the total premium for family coverage. Companies cover the rest. With premiums rising 6% in 2025 for company family plans alongside the growing cost of living, some workers are questioning whether their benefits are worth the cost.
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Doctors say they’ve begun hearing accounts about GLP-1 medication: a kind of emotional flattening, a dulled response not just to food but to other sources of joy such as reading, listening to music, dancing, gardening — or even sex. Online, the phenomenon has taken on a name — anhedonia — and, more colloquially, “Ozempic personality.”
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Adults with “tech neck” don’t work in extreme conditions like an F1 drivers, but the training techniques of professional race car drivers highlight an often-overlooked muscle group.
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On Saturday, Naperville resident Charles Wilcox will celebrate an exercise habit that has seen him either run or walk several miles nearly every day since May 2, 1966.
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With the birth of a baby, a pregnancy has technically ended, but significant changes to the mother’s body continue for several months. This postpartum period for the mother often goes unaddressed, which has given rise to the idea of the fourth trimester.
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The biggest misconception I see about irritable bowel syndrome as a gastroenterologist is that people think we don’t know what the actual underlying problem is. The second biggest misconception is that we don’t have effective ways to treat it.
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Research has found that 80% of households have unused or expired medications on a shelf somewhere, probably in the medicine cabinet. Now that spring is here, you can do your part to reduce that percentage.
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When it comes to understanding speech and language development, it’s easy to feel alone in determining if your child is behind. There are ways that parents can ensure children develop speech at a healthy pace, but an element that often goes understated is your child’s ability to hear.
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A $15 million advanced endoscopy center has opened at Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital. Nationwide, there are only a handful of standalone centers like it.
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For decades, we’ve told people that moving more is the key to better health. And that’s true — but it’s only part of the story. Increasingly, research shows that how you move matters nearly as much as how often. In particular, brief bursts of higher-intensity activity can have an outsize impact on health, fitness and even longevity.
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