LUPUS: “THE WOLF”
Forty years ago, a teacher at a Catholic elementary school invited the faculty members and their husbands and wives to a Christmas party in her home. It was an opportunity…
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EISENHOWER’S BATTLE WITH CROHN’S DISEASE
Born October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas, Dwight David Eisenhower was raised in Kansas. He graduated from West Point in 1915 and began his military career. During World War II,…
DIAGNOSIS: RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Sandra was forty years old when she first noticed that the joints in her hands and toes were tender, warm, and swollen. In the mornings, the joints were stiff, and…
MUHAMMAD ALI’S FIGHT WITH PARKINSON’S
In 1964, a twenty-two-year-old boxer known by his birth name, Cassius Clay, Jr. entered the ring for a match with Sonny Liston, who had been the world heavyweight boxing champion…
A FORMIDABLE FOE: LEWY BODY DEMENTIA
Born at St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago on July 21, 1951, Robin Williams was the son of Robert Fitzgerald Williams, a senior executive in Ford Motor Company’s Lincoln-Mercury Division. His…
WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CNAs
Fifty years ago, subdivisions were sprouting in the cornfields and bean fields in Illinois. The 1960’s and 1970’s were a time of rapid growth in the housing stock at the…
KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY
Looking down the long hall from her office to the conference room, Elaine must have thought about the number of steps required to get there. Fifty? A hundred? Five hundred?…
Private Duty Registered Nurse (RN) and Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) Positions Available
American Home Health has positions available for RNs and LPNs. Cases close to home in Kane, Kendall, Grundy, DeKalb, Lee, Will, DuPage, McHenry, Lake and Cook Counties. Flexible schedule, competitive…
CHICAGO UNION STATION RENOVATION
Picture yourself walking into the Great Hall at Union Station in Chicago. With its huge columns, arches, and skylights, the Great Hall is a spectacular interior space. Rays of light…
LOOKING BACK IN TIME
Two hundred years ago, on December 3, 1818, Illinois became the 21st state in the Union. When we think of Illinois today, we think of Chicago with 2,707,120 people, skyscrapers,…
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