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• Park district ramps up for fall volleyball, fitness and more

• Health department offers free prostate screenings

• Life expectancy of Americans hits 78

• Health care premiums rise 6.1 percent

• Feds see problems with bird flu plans

• Second-generation vaccine to protect against use of smallpox as a deadly bioterror weapon

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  U of I Extension offers three evenings of planning and cooking

• State public health department promotes rabies prevention awareness for the first World Rabies Day

• Dutchman offers 'cure' for nail-biting

• CDC: Suicide rate among U.S. girls soars

• Blagojevich administration announces more than $1.5 million in Women's Health Initiative grants for Illinois

• State public health director warns parents to beware of lead paint in toys

• Exercise may generate new blood vessels

• Risperdal approved to treat adolescent schizophrenia and pediatric and adolescent bipolar disorders

• Doctor warns consumers of popcorn fumes

• Cutting work hours for medical residents doesn't reduce patient death rate

• FDA approves new drug to treat rare disease, acromegaly

• Scientists test new bipolar remedies

• More may be offered lung cancer surgery

  • Lung tumors are top cancer killer

• Gov. Blagojevich signs legislation to help prevent and control infections in health care facilities

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