Microscope
Health & Wellness
2 years ago
UIS to offer four new medical laboratory science certificates to meet local health care needs

The certificates include clinical chemistry, hematology, immunohematology and medical microbiology.

Mushroom
Health & Wellness
2 years ago
Midwest sees surge in calls to poison control centers amid bumper crop of wild mushrooms

Calls from April through July more than tripled over the same period last year.

An infant and audience member sit in the crowd of a news conference in Chicago’s Fulton Market District neighborhood. Gov. JB Pritzker signed House Bill 5142 into law, with the hope of lowering infant and maternal mortality rates across the state.
Health & Wellness
2 years ago
Pritzker signs birth equity initiative into law, celebrates Medicaid expansion

State-regulated insurance plans will be required to cover midwife services next year.

Health & Wellness
2 years ago
Recall of Boar’s Head deli meats announced during investigation of listeria outbreak

U.S. health officials Friday announced a recall of some Boar’s Head liverwurst and deli meats as they investigate a listeria outbreak that has sickened nearly three dozen people and caused two deaths including one in Illinois.

ImpactLife's Jim Watts with blood donation
Health & Wellness
2 years ago
ImpactLife celebrates 50 years of saving lives through blood donation

Springfield Memorial Hospital and HSHS St. John’s Hospital are among more than 120 hospitals in four states that receive blood from ImpactLife.

Culex Mosquito
Health & Wellness
2 years ago
IDPH announces first human case of West Nile virus in 2024

In 2023, Illinois had 119 human WNV cases and six deaths.

Schizophrenia
Health & Wellness
2 years ago
Drug trial for a new schizophrenia medication set to get underway at SIU School of Medicine

Valbenazine is an adjunct to the main treatment for schizophrenia.

Gov. JB Pritzker
Health & Wellness
2 years ago
Pritzker signs law banning health insurance companies’ ‘predatory tactics,’ including step therapy

Pritzker says the law blocks “predatory tactics to make an extra dime”

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