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Ascension closure of delivery services sparks protest

By Steve Zalusky
Jul 01, 2025 4:55 pm - Protesters gathered outside Ascension Alexian Brothers Hospital in Elk Grove Village Tuesday, opposing Ascension’s decision to discontinue baby deliveries at the hospital.
Supreme Court preserves key part of Obamacare coverage requirements

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jun 27, 2025 10:14 am - The Supreme Court preserved a key part of the Affordable Care Act’s preventive health care coverage requirements on Friday, rejecting a challenge from Christian employers to the provision that affects some 150 million Americans.
Massage Therapy Education hosts grand opening in Fox River Grove

By Cathy Moran, Cary-Grove Area Chamber of Commerce
Jun 26, 2025 3:40 pm - Massage Therapy Education, an innovative new massage therapy school dedicated to training the next generation of massage professionals, has opened its doors in Fox River Grove and celebrated with a ribbon cutting on June 17.
States can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court rules

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jun 26, 2025 9:22 am - A divided Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid money to Planned Parenthood in a ruling handed down Thursday amid a wider Republican-backed push to defund the country’s biggest abortion provider.
Key Medicaid provision in Trump's big tax cut and spending bill is found to violate Senate rules

By LISA MASCARO
Jun 26, 2025 9:20 am - The Senate parliamentarian has advised that a key Medicaid provider tax overhaul that is central to President Donald Trump's big tax cut and spending bill does not adhere to procedural rules, delivering a crucial blow to Republicans rushing to finish the massive package this week.
US pulls funding from global vaccines group, saying it has ‘ignored the science’

Jun 26, 2025 9:15 am - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi, saying the organization has “ignored the science” and “lost the public trust.”
Kennedy’s vaccine committee to vote on flu vaccines and controversial preservative

By MIKE STOBBE and LAURAN NEERGAARD
Jun 26, 2025 9:12 am - U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new vaccine advisory committee backed another option to protect infants against a dangerous virus — before turning to questions about fall flu vaccines and a preservative in a small fraction of them that some antivaccine groups have falsely tied to autism.
VNA Health Care: Get a jump on back-to-school physicals

Submitted by VNA Health Care
Jun 25, 2025 11:35 pm - Before back-to-school season in August, VNA Health Care encourages parents to make sure their children complete any required appointments.
Arlington Heights resident chosen to lead village’s health department

By Christopher Placek
Jun 23, 2025 7:48 pm - Arlington Heights resident Mila Tsagalis has been hired as the village’s director of health and human services.
Health insurers promise to improve coverage reviews that prompt delays and complaints

By TOM MURPHY
Jun 23, 2025 10:21 am - The nation’s major health insurers are promising to scale back and improve a widely despised practice that leads to care delays and complications.

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