Hospitals in Dekalb, IL - Medicare Status, Ratings, Address, Contact

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Kishwaukee Community Hospital
Acute Care Hospital (Medicare Certified)
Location: 1 Kish Hospital Drive, Dekalb, Illinois 60115
Ratings: Phone: (815) 756-1521

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UNC-Chapel Hill receives new award to help improve health of North Carolinians

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded $58.1 million from the National Institutes of Health to renew its five-year Clinical and Translational Science Award Program to help improve the health of North Carolinians.

New discovery may shed light on how common cold triggers asthma attacks

Cold season may be just behind us, but a new discovery may shed light on how this common condition triggers asthma attacks. In a new research report published in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte Biology, researchers show that in individuals with asthma, statins significantly reduce the in vitro inflammatory response of human monocytes to rhinovirus (RV), the cause of the common cold.

Patients, health insurers challenge Iowa's privatized Medicaid

Iowa is one of 38 states that radically changed the way it runs Medicaid over the past few years. The state moved about 600,000 people on the government-run health program into care that is managed by for-profit insurance companies.

Clean living conscientious types less prone to Alzheimer's

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Mindfulness linked with fewer menopausal symptoms

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