Health Care
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Advocate Health Care’s first teaching kitchen opensJun 29, 2026 1:30 pm - Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital is supporting healthier living with the launch of a teaching kitchen focused on nutrition education and wellness.
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Europe’s record heat has overwhelmed Paris mortuaries and left families in distress
Jun 29, 2026 8:28 am - Every few minutes, the mortuary owner's phone rings. Since a record-smashing heat wave started taking lives and storage space for bodies in Paris and beyond, the funeral directors and mourning families calling him mostly have the same question: Do you have room for one more?
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Four years after Roe’s reversal, Illinois still a destination for women seeking abortion careJun 23, 2026 7:53 pm - Planned Parenthood of Illinois said Tuesday, the agency has experienced a 48% increase in abortion care patients since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 24, 2022.
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Lake Zurich approves new Advocate outpatient, immediate care centerJun 23, 2026 6:10 pm - Advocate Health Care will be expanding its footprint and services in Lake Zurich with a new outpatient center.
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Suburban residents among 455 charged nationally in Medicaid fraud crackdownJun 23, 2026 4:56 pm - Several suburban residents are facing charges stemming from a massive Medicaid fraud crackdown that resulted in 455 arrests nationwide.
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Utah marks a year of battling measles, with no clear end in sight
Jun 20, 2026 5:13 pm - Utah has spent the past year fighting measles outbreaks — a grim milestone that could affect whether the United States can keep its measles-free designation.
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FDA panel backs first-of-its-kind flu vaccine using mRNA technology
Jun 18, 2026 4:25 pm - A new kind of flu vaccine moved a step closer to the U.S. market Thursday as federal health advisers recommended approval of the first made with the same mRNA technology that was key to ending the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nara Organics recalls baby formula sold at Target after multistate infant botulism outbreakJun 14, 2026 4:14 pm - SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Nara Organics recalled its organic baby formula sold nationwide in Target stores and online Saturday after a multistate outbreak of infant botulism, ...
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Schaumburg’s Encore Village expands Medicaid-funded housing while helping seniors displaced by bankruptcy falloutJun 13, 2026 11:15 am - The 2023 bankruptcy of Friendship Village of Schaumburg created an array of issues for its senior residents that are still being navigated by the facility’s new owners.
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Hanger Clinic in Schaumburg hosts rehab boot camp for above-knee double amputeesJun 12, 2026 4:41 pm - A nationally renowned integrated care center in Schaumburg for prosthetic and orthopedic patients spent Thursday and Friday dedicated exclusively to people who make up no more than 3% of the amputee population.