Health
Thirty years after the deadly 1995 heat wave, we pay lip service to problems, but the underlying social conditions are the same, or worse.
Nine states will share in a total of $720 million in a deal with eight drug-makers. Illinois has collected about $1.4 billion of the $50 billion nationwide in opioid settlements.
President Donald Trump’s administration is proposing a ban on federally funded programs for anyone who can’t show legal status, including babies in the Head Start child care program.
While Illinois has had eight cases of the virus so far this year, at least 1,288 cases have been confirmed nationwide, the most in more than 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The new interpretation of a 1996 law, which also affects health centers, goes into effect once its published in the Federal Registry, the feds says. Also impacted are adult education programs.
As elderly Americans begin to lose SNAP and Medicaid under President Trump’s new tax and spending law, providers brace for more senior citizens looking for enough to eat.
Every Chicago ZIP code appears on an Illinois Department of Public Health list requiring that children be tested for lead exposure.
Staff at one of Chicago’s largest hospital systems say they are seeing increased tick bite cases, but there’s not enough data to know if the city is having a spike in cases.
Advocate Children’s Hospital flagged three knockoff car seats in the past year amid a rise nationally in parents buying seats that don’t meet U.S. safety standards.
Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle was fined $5,000 and must complete 20 hours of continuing medical education, the state Department of Financial and Professional Regulation said. He’s accused in a suit of perforating a woman’s uterus and leaving parts of a fetus in her body.
A high swim risk advisory is in effect amid potentially life-threatening rip currents and high wave activity at Illinois and northwest Indiana beaches.
How long hot flashes last, hormone replacement therapy as the only option to treat symptoms and when menopause starts are some of the most common myths.
“He’s really getting the shaft,” says the now-retired UIC researcher who brought Dr. Mahmood Ghassemi out of retirement to help lead unprecedented COVID trials.
Community group leaders say they will be left to “pick up the pieces” as President Donald Trump’s bill, which he signed into law Friday, rolls out cuts to Medicaid and the SNAP food assistance program.
University officials recently suspended the group from campus because of its affiliation with Planned Parenthood. Student leaders accuse DePaul of kowtowing to President Donald Trump.
The suit, announced Tuesday, seeks to stop federal immigration officials from securing more health documentation or using the already obtained Medicaid records of millions nationwide to target enrollees for immigration enforcement.
The Illinois State Board of Education and the Center for Childhood Resilience at Lurie Children’s Hospital announced the launch of Resilience-Supportive Schools Illinois — a free online program that gives schools tools to support mental health and resilience of students and educators.
Los datos personales, incluyendo el estatus migratorio, de los beneficiarios de Medicaid en Illinois podrían utilizarse para ayudar al gobierno federal a localizar a quienes carecen de estatus legal.
