Stories about Health
Sinnissippi Centers, KSB Hospital and the Partnership for a Healthy Lee County work group are conducting an #EndTheStigma campaign during May to help improve awareness of mental health. May is Mental Health Month, which was created by Mental Health in America in 1949.
Those experiencing hearing loss can now get an over-the-counter hearing aid or a prescription aid if a stronger one is needed for everyday use, writes Mercyhealth audiologist Dr. Marybeth Agulo.
The Kane County Board allocated nearly $10 million in federal pandemic recovery funding to the Kane County Health Department to address gaps in the behavioral health system.
Hope Cancer Wellness Center offers a 6-week series that will provide tools to ease the pain and sadness as well as allow people to work through grief.
Kristin Walls, who is also a second grade teacher at Jones Elementary School in Minooka, had a vertebral artery dissection on Thanksgiving Day.
Warm weather season means more time spent outdoors. It is also time for ticks to be out more and everywhere. Changes in climate are leading to an increase in the ticks and the potential for unwanted diseases.
Kane County Health Department launches campaign to help reduce opioid overdose deaths.
Jenny Caterer of Geneva is looking forward to this year's Mother's Day after having survived bone marrow cancer, spinal surgery and two stem cell transplants – right after the birth of her daughter Kylee.
Healing Gardens at Stone Hill Farm in St. Charles will kick off the 2024 season on Mother’s Day, May 12.
Heck, as far as I’m concerned asparagus is valuable to any landscape including my own backyard.
The Health Department will lead two classes from 6 to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays, May 1 and May 15 at the Health Department at 1240 N Highland Ave. in Aurora.
Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential U.S. task force. Women ages 40 to 74 should get screened every other year, the group said.
The facility located at 2600 E. Main St. is one of over 200 WellNow urgent care centers across the country, with over 40 in the Chicago area.
One of the grants will allow the Kane County Coroner to hire a community liaison to connect residents with the county’s opioid reduction efforts.
Policies and procedures have been implemented by the Illinois Veterans’ Home in La Salle “out of an abundance of caution,” following possible cases of an infectious disease, an Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs spokesperson said.