CHAMPAIGN — People affected by suicide loss can take part in an upcoming program at Parkland College.
CHAMPAIGN — Some new parents aren’t following recommended guidelines for safe infant sleep, and Illinois state police and the state Department of Children and Family Services are urging families to pay attention.
Ahead of the UI College of Applied Health Sciences' Sapora Symposium, which is devoted to Red Grange, Editor Jeff D’Alessio asked the three featured guest speakers to answer one question about the Illini icon.
URBANA — People with Parkinson’s disease can take part in free monthly dance-based classes at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
Just 52 more shopping days until Illinois grown-ups can purchase pot without breaking the law. Given the mixed opinions on seemingly every aspect of marijuana legalization, in the first installment of a two-Sunday miniseries, we asked experts on both sides of the debate to play a game of tru…
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For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 15 E. Main St., Champaign, IL 61820, call 217-359-6500.
Allyson Garrett and Tyler Jones helped spearhead Saturday's Andrew Bryant Day with the hope it would raise awareness for muscular dystrophy and give an opportunity to discuss how kids handle traumatic events.
Are any dentists in this area participating in Illinois Dentists Salute, the program that offers some free dental care to veterans this month?
'This is something I always wanted to do, just go back and look out for my community,' Aaron Brown, 30, said of the event, set for noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Don Moyer Boys and Girls Club, 201 E. Park St., C.
CHAMPAIGN — David Johnson isn’t a stranger to the challenges of trying to manage a chronic disease without health insurance.
A little TLC at the UI's Small Animal Clinic has brought out the puppy in Poppy, the eight-month-old dog rescued from Kaufman Lake on Saturday who was released to animal control Monday, where she will stay while police investigate who left her in a cage in the lake.
Staff writer Paul Wood chats with the founder of Mechanodontics (now Brius), a UI Cozad 2019 Grand Prize Winner that 'straightens teeth without the use of braces and aligners,' according to a profile in The New York Times.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 15 E. Main St., Champaign, IL 61820, call 217-359-6500.
The concert — set for 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Urbana — will feature the Parkland Chamber Secrets and hundreds of high school students from the area performing more than 20 selections in a range of genres.
I think it would be extremely helpful if you devoted one column to a glossary of medical professionals. By that, I mean trying to make sense of what has become an alphabet soup of designations for the various people one sees now at Carle and Christie and elsewhere.
Health Alliance Medical Plans and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois will be competing for enrollments in Champaign, Douglas, Coles, Vermilion, Piatt, Ford, Iroquois, Edgar, Cumberland and Clark counties, according to an analysis of 2020 health plans released Monday by the Illinois Department of Insurance.
Between 2000 and 2018, 383,947 people who served in the U.S. military were diagnosed with traumatic brain injury. Ahead of a Friday forum on the topic at Carle — ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ — we spoke to the veterans affected, the caregivers who stand by their side and the UI researchers trying to learn more about a crippling injury that often goes unrecognized.
For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 15 E. Main St., Champaign, IL 61820, call 217-359-6500.
Each plan being sold at HealthCare.gov will carry the new rating, which is based on customer satisfaction, how well members' medical care has been managed and how well the plan has been administered.
Four-year-old Addiana Montiel's upcoming brain surgery means she won't get to participate in her family's traditional trek to see holiday light displays — so the Schoonovers are putting up their 100,000-light display now.
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CHAMPAIGN — Three area nursing homes have been fined by the state for license violations.
Is it best to keep kids with anxiety and sensory processing issues home on Halloween night to spare them the added stress?
The first 'Desserts & Decisions,' for girls 12 and older and their moms or caregivers, is being held Thursday at Mer Che Manor, 723 Oak St., Danville. There will be a variety of desserts, door prizes and other giveaways. People can still RSVP by calling 217-443-5689.
CHAMPAIGN — Have a favorite memory about Frances Nelson Health Center?
Brian and Courtney McKay, whose eldest son, Davis, benefited from a Make-A-Wish trip to Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Florida in January 2017, will host a wine-tasting fundraiser this week called Wine For Wishes to benefit Make-A-Wish Illinois.
Dr. Jared Rogers, president of OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center said the proposed closure of two blocks of Logan Avenue would significantly impact access to the hospital and create 'a critical delay' for patients seeking care, particularly emergency care.
When you see and are examined by a nurse practitioner, do they charge you less than when you see the doctor? If not, why not?
Not only are oral opioids an ineffective pain reliever for dogs, some prescribed for pets are likely helping fuel the human opioid epidemic, they say, advising vets to rethink prescribing them.
'You'd be surprised at the men who don't know men get breast cancer,' said Les Black, 82, who underwent a mastectomy and five weeks of radiation therapy. He and his wife, Cheryl, said they want to change that by getting them talking.
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