The new head of public health in Champaign County says he’s adamant about health equity and equal access to affordable health care. Dr. Mamadou Tounkara is stepping into the role following former administrator Julie Pryde’s retirement in January after 30 years of service.
Congressman Darin LaHood is not breaking entirely with the Trump administration on the vaccine question — even while acknowledging he now has more than just concerns.
Alpha-gal syndrome, a tickborne allergy to red meat and dairy, has become more common in the last few years.
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services said between 190,000 to 360,000 Medicaid recipients are at risk of losing coverage in Illinois because of new work requirements.
Shapiro Developmental Center is home to more than 450 with intellectual or developmental disabilities.
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health district is urging residents to get vaccinated and protect themselves as the county is seeing an uptick in flu cases.
Officials in the states say the administration is motivated by politics. The administration has not given details of the pause on funding or the fraud claims.
Carle Health has placed temporary visitor restrictions to limit the spread of respiratory illnesses at each of its facilities.
Last week, more than 19,000 patients with influenza were admitted to hospitals, up about 10,000 from the previous week, according to new CDC data.
The pivot to the topic of transgender minors comes one day after Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a package of health care bills that do not extend subsidies for people who buy health insurance in Affordable Care Act plans.
Since at least 2018, the state has logged only one confirmed case of a newborn infected with hepatitis B.
Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowers health insurance costs for millions of Americans.
Both bills needed 60 votes to advance, but neither succeeded.
Amid increasingly hostile laws and rhetoric targeting transgender people in the United States, many of them seek to move to places they feel safer. Aaron Slayton is one of many who have made a new home in central Illinois.
The new law will allow the state to publish guidelines that differ from the CDC.