Illinois Stops Paying Health Care Claims For State Employees' Self-Insured Plans
The state budget crisis is about to hit tens of thousands more, including many state employees and doctors and dentists who treat them.
Watch CBS News
The state budget crisis is about to hit tens of thousands more, including many state employees and doctors and dentists who treat them.
The University of Chicago's plan to create an adult trauma center on the South Side might be a victory for advocates who have been demanding such a facility for years, but it's not good enough for some activists and at least one South Side alderman.
Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration issued a broad rejection Thursday of expanding the list of diseases that can be treated with medical marijuana in Illinois, refusing to add osteoarthritis, migraine, post-traumatic stress disorder and eight other health problems.
Activists have long demanded that the U of C provide trauma care at its Hyde Park hospital campus. The trauma center announced Thursday will be west of there, at Holy Cross Hospital.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has backed a new tax on electronic cigarettes as part of his 2016 budget plan. Standing with health professionals and others at City Hall on Thursday, Ald. Proco Joe Moreno (1st) applauded the measure as well.
State officials are reporting another death and four new cases of Legionnaires' disease among residents of a western Illinois town, bringing the number of deaths to eight from an outbreak first disclosed last week.
There have been 14 cases of rabid bats in Will County this year, surpassing last year's record of 13.
Officials with the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs and the state Department of Public Health say that all of the victims were elderly residents with underlying medical conditions.
Lake County health officials are reaching out to thousands of households in the northern suburbs in order to piece together a profile of the community's health, reports WBBM's Regine Schlesinger.
The first week of school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign included a crash course in vaccinations, as health officials struggle to contain a growing mumps outbreak.
The Skokie Health Department says the 50-year-old patient's condition is improving.
It's not clear whether state lawmakers will try to override the governor's action, which in part stiffens fines for pot possession.
The university is trying to stop an outbreak that sickened dozens of students this summer.
Tommy Schneider has been holding camps and clinics in and around Chicago for years, in an effort to get kids more active. Now he's taken his quest on the road.
With hundreds of thousands of people in Cook County already having trouble finding enough healthy food, a new study reveals that struggle might bring an added burden: higher health care costs.
