Stories about Health
Anthony Pens, 26, and Alyssa Pens, 14, both have Heredity Spastic Paraplegia Type 35 and require round-the-clock care. Their disease is so rare that only 51 people in 19 families are documented in medical literature.
Heritage Square, 620 N. Ottawa Ave. in Dixon, is a not-for-profit facility that provides sheltered care and skilled nursing services. It has been serving the Dixon community for over 50 years.
The Will County Health Department is installing 10 red naloxone distribution boxes at locations throughout the county.
Self-harm typically occurs in response to severe stress or psychological pain. There is help available.
McHenry County Department of Health will hand out more than $1 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to groups that enhance health.
St. Charles Police Department will begin giving out free Narcan to anyone who wants it in an effort to help fight opioid overdoses.
The results of Lockport's semi-annual drinking water lead testing from late-2023 are in, with four out of 30 houses showing heightened levels of the dangerous metal.
Parkinson’s Players Ping Pong, now offered at Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Health & Fitness Center twice a week and once a week at Edgewater Fitness Center in Chicago, is taught by certified exercise physiologists with additional Parkinson’s-specific training.
The Partnership for a Healthy Lee County is extending an invitation to Lee County residents to take a survey to share their perspectives on the issue of addiction.
Trained personnel or the school nurse can administer undesignated quick relief asthma medicine when any individual at District 202 in Plainfield – students, staff or members of the community – experience respiratory distress.
New vaccine clinic and space for public restrooms are among the changes McHenry County is looking to make for its health department facility in Crystal Lake.
The Lake County Health Department and Community Health Center recommends that all residents test the radon levels in their homes and apartments.
A bill in the Illinois General Assembly would ban five food additives in the state by 2027.
Salem Village closing follows the shutdown at Our Lady of Angels Retirement Home in 2023.
Services The Center for Wellness & Bodywork in Joliet offer include acupuncture, chiropractic care, hypnosis, massage and bodywork, reflexology and Tai Chi.