Palos Health has signed a letter of intent to merge with Northwestern Medicine, the two organizations announced Friday morning.
There were 1,953 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Illinois on Thursday, bringing the state’s total number of cases to 255,643.
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Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has joined nearly two dozen colleagues in support of a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services over a requirement that restricts access to medication abortions.
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees filed a lawsuit this week to stop nurses at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago from going on strike this weekend.
The Chicago City Council signed off Wednesday on a plan that will ban the sale of flavored vaping products, though it will not affect the sale of flavored tobacco such as menthol cigarettes.
Dr. Ronald Kaplan, executive vice president of Research of Rosalind Franklin University, announced today that the university will host its first national forum on brain diseases in a two-day virtual symposium on Sept. 16 and 17.
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There were 1,337 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Illinois on Wednesday, bringing the state’s total number of cases to 253,690.
A private fund formed in spring to provide relief to Illinois communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic will wind down its operations after making its fifth round of grants, Gov. JB Pritzker and his sister Penny Pritzker announced Tuesday.
The number of new daily COVID-19 cases in Chicago has dropped over the past week.
The drug company that’s testing a potential COVID-19 vaccine at two Chicago locations, among other places, has put its clinical trial on hold due to a potential severe adverse reaction for a participant at a different site.
The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board is tentatively set to vote in November on the proposed closure of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago.
There were 1,392 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Illinois on Tuesday, bringing the state’s total number of cases to 252,353.
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A deficiency of vitamin D could increase the likelihood of becoming infected with COVID-19, according to a new report from the University of Chicago Medicine.
Illinois will receive nearly $37 million in federal funding to help fight the opioid epidemic, Gov. JB Pritzker announced last week.
Twenty-nine Illinois counties have now reached a “warning” level for COVID-19, a decrease of one from the prior week.
Illinois has now surpassed 250,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
