Hormel Recalls Over 256,000 Pounds of Canned Beef Stew
Title: Hormel Recalls Over 256,000 Pounds of Canned Beef StewCategory: Health NewsCreated: 5/30/2025 12:00:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 5/30/2025 12:00:00 AM
KFF: Illinois could lose $46 billion in federal Medicaid dollars due to reconciliation law
Illinois could lose $46 billion in federal Medicaid funding over the next 10 years due to President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law, according to an analysis released this week by KFF.
Illinois to receive over $925,000 in settlement with Gilead Sciences over kickbacks to providers for prescriptions
Illinois will receive over $925,000 as part of a multistate settlement in principle with Gilead Sciences for allegedly running an illegal kickback scheme to promote their HIV medications, Attorney General Kwame Raoul said Wednesday.
National News American kids have become increasingly unhealthy over nearly two decades. Associated Press
The health of U.S. children has deteriorated over the past 17 years, with kids today more likely to have obesity, chronic diseases and mental health problems like depression, a new study says. Much of what researchers found was already known, but the study paints a comprehensive picture by examining various aspects of children’s physical and […]
Illinois awards over $10.2 million in grocery initiative grants
Gov. JB Pritzker awarded eight grants totaling over $10.2 million Thursday to address food deserts and grocery store closures in Illinois.
8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death
An analysis of over 20,000 U.S. adults found that people who limited their eating across less than 8 hours per day, a time-restricted eating plan, were more likely to die from cardiovascular disease compared to people who ate across 12-16 hours per day, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and […]
What’s Happening With the Medicare Drug-Price Negotiation Lawsuits?
Over the past year, drugmakers and lobbyists have filed 10 different lawsuits against the federal government’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs via the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program. It’s still early days for these cases, but so far the government has won “every substantive motion,” Zachary Baron, JD, of the O’Neill Institute for National […]
School Shootings in U.S. Reach Highest Recorded Levels
U.S. school shootings rose in frequency over the last 25 years and reached their highest recorded levels, data analyses showed. Across the 1997-1998 to 2021-2022 school years, there were 1,453 shootings, according to Luke Rapa, PhD, of Clemson University in South Carolina, and colleagues. The number of shootings ranged from a low of 15 in […]
Opinion | ‘They Had Habituated to Familiar Disgust Elicitors’: What We Heard This Week
“They had habituated to familiar disgust elicitors over a long period.” — Edwin Dalmaijer, DPhil, of the University of Bristol in England, discussing findings that health workers in care homes had lower levels of disgust than their peers. “I urge everybody to say that age is a number, not a quality.” — Nir Barzilai, MD, […]
Opinion | ‘We Needed to Do Something Different’: What We Heard This Week
“It was very clear just over the last 10 years … we needed to do something different.” — AnnaMarie Connolly, MD, chief of education and academic affairs at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, on next season’s changes made to the application process for ob/gyn residency programs. “Legislative efforts on a more local/state level […]