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1 week ago | americanmilitarynews.com | Lisa Schencker

Almost exactly a year after he was diagnosed with colorectal cancer, WGN-TV reporter Mike Lowe’s cell phone pinged as he drove to work early last week. It was a message from his doctor — the results of his latest colonoscopy, a test meant to show whether six weeks of radiation and four months of chemotherapy had worked. The results were exactly what he had hoped to see: The cancer was no longer detectable. “Getting those results, it was just the most amazing feeling,” Lowe said.

1 week ago | pantagraph.com | Lisa Schencker

CHICAGO — Tariffs will likely cost Deerfield-based Baxter International $60 million to $70 million this year, the company’s chief financial officer said in an earnings call. Baxter expects to see most of the impact from increased tariffs in the second half of the year, said Joel Grade, Baxter executive vice president and chief financial officer. Baxter makes IV fluids, a number of pharmaceuticals and other hospital products. “We are able to mitigate a portion of these impacts,” Grade said.

1 week ago | chicagotribune.com | Lisa Schencker

Tariffs will likely cost Deerfield-based Baxter International $60 to $70 million this year, the company’s chief financial officer said in an earnings call Thursday. Baxter expects to see most of the impact from increased tariffs in the second half of the year, said Joel Grade, Baxter executive vice president and chief financial officer. Baxter makes IV fluids, a number of pharmaceuticals and other hospital products. “We are able to mitigate a portion of these impacts,” Grade said.

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Lisa Schencker

Share Good morning, Chicago.In what’s surely every patient’s nightmare, foreign objects such as surgical sponges sometimes get left behind inside the body during surgery.It happens only rarely, but to help avoid it, health care workers have traditionally counted surgical sponges during procedures to make sure they’re all accounted for.