Health
The threat of forcible separation from family is a form of trauma that immigrants are facing, mental health experts say.
Pier’ Re Addiana Welborne, 2, died of combined drug toxicity, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office, which ruled her death a homicide this week.
The Sun-Times is digging into pricing data from Chicago area hospitals and would like to know what you have experienced.
Posting on his social media site, Trump said he would place 100% tariffs on pharmaceutical drugs and tariffs on kitchen cabinets and sofas were needed “for National Security and other reasons.”
Planned Parenthood clinics in Wisconsin will halt abortions Oct. 1. Trump’s tax and spending law includes a provision barring abortion providers from receiving Medicaid reimbursements.
An ordinance that would give residents a say about polluting industries that want to set up shop where they live has the mayor’s support, but faces business and union opposition and Trump apathy.
Loyola Medicine experts said the mold count in the air on Tuesday was the highest since computerized records were begun back in 2011. The levels are a hazard for people with allergies or respiratory conditions.
Health experts are still investigating whether the Illinois resident got the Powassan virus in the state, but in the meantime, Illinoisans are advised to check for ticks after coming from outdoors and avoid wooded, bushy areas.
The new guidance follows an executive order signed by Gov. JB Pritzker this month aimed at expanding access to COVID-19 shots and other vaccines in the state.
Three dozen cases were diagnosed in August, nearly twice as many compared to July. Health officials and physicians say the two-dose vaccine is the most effective preventive measure.
The federal government will put warning labels on Tylenol. Trump calls the routine, life-saving hepatitis B vaccination given at birth unnecessary. Deaths will follow.
Dr. Brandon Hill, CEO of Vivent Health and a researcher in HIV and sexual issues, talks about changes in government funding.
It can reveal plaque in arteries, offering a more precise estimate of a person’s risk of heart disease. Yet the test remains underused.
Jim Holcomb, of Albany Park, collapsed during a cycling event in rural Michigan last year, prompting bystander Brittany Miles of Indiana to stop and perform CPR until an ambulance arrived.
A week before the advisory committee meeting, Gov JB Pritzker signed an executive order that aims to protect COVID-19 vaccine access across the state. The state is expected to issue its own guidance by next week.
The person who died was not identified by Cook County officials, who said Cook County has logged nearly double the number of West Nile virus cases compared with 2024.
A virtual community meeting will be held Sept. 24 to discuss the “environmentally complex” demolition of 13 structures around the Fisk power plant.
The latest case of the highly contagious viral disease was identified in an unvaccinated 4-year-old. Terminal 5 at O’Hare International Airport was a point of public exposure on Thursday between 7:30 to 11 a.m., officials said.
State officials could soon issue vaccine recommendations making it easier to get the shots despite new barriers set by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
A network of almost 300 devices installed across the city is the largest of its kind in the U.S. The pollution data are expected to be made public next year.