Health leaders said Tuesday that continued investments in public health and awareness campaigns are necessary to get ahead of the anticipated rise in long COVID cases in Illinois.
Financial and strategic factors are driving hospitals and health systems in Illinois to seek partners, panelists said Tuesday at a Health News Illinois event in Chicago.
The University of Illinois Chicago College of Nursing recently received $3 million in federal funding to study the relationship between the gut microbiome and distressing symptoms experienced by some kidney transplant recipients.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., filed a brief with other senators last week in support of allowing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to negotiate lower drug prices.
The Illinois Supreme Court heard arguments last week on whether two nurses’ rights under the state’s biometric privacy law were violated when they were required to provide fingerprints to access patient medication from secure cabinets.
Researchers at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago said last week that a genetic biomarker may be able to help predict the severity of food allergy reactions.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance recently released its annual health plan rankings for Illinois.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Evanston, joined forces last week on a plan to improve the medical device recall process.
The Illinois Legislative Black Caucus Foundation announced this week the first round of funding to support medical professionals in the state.
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Five behavioral health clinics will receive $7 million total in federal funds to support ongoing efforts to address the national mental health crisis and opioid epidemic.
Rep. Sue Scherer, D-Decatur, and colleagues in central Illinois have renewed their call for the Department of Insurance to look at whether Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois is meeting network adequacy standards in the region.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Healthcare and Family Services confirmed Thursday that they are not pausing Medicaid disenrollments in Illinois.
Chicago-based GE HealthCare will use more than $44 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop user-friendly, artificial intelligence–assisted ultrasound imaging tools.
Illinois joined a multistate coalition last week in opposing Idaho’s near-total abortion ban.
Officials at the University of Chicago Medicine broke ground this week on a new $815 million freestanding cancer center on the city’s south side.
Rockford Endoscopy Center seeks a nearly $9.9 million renovation of its facility, according to a recent application with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board.
