Alzheimer’s Association, IDPH launch initiative to potentially reduce cognitive decline
The Alzheimer’s Association Illinois Chapter recently announced it will partner with the state’s Department of Public Health and other stakeholders on a new initiative to reduce cognitive decline through lifestyle-based education and outreach.
Opinion | The Pandemic Potential of U.S. Animal Markets
Linder is an expert in animal policy and law. COVID hit the U.S. while my partner and I were back home at a wedding in Kansas. At the time, there were a handful of cases on the coasts, but concerns about the new virus were drowned out by the busy reception full of hugs and […]
My Obsession With My Boyfriend Was Driving Us Apart. Then I Found Out What Was Really Going On.
The author and her partner, Cole, two weeks before they got engaged. Courtesy of Jade Deyoe It started one night about a month after we’d met, when he said something funny and I didn’t react quickly enough. He was staying at my place, a one-bedroom house I was renting in the Mojave Desert. The space […]
Learn More About What It’s Like To Care For Someone With Heart Failure
A care partner is anyone who helps someone else manage their health. In terms of heart failure specifically, a care partner is anyone who is invested in supporting someone’s journey toward heart success. This could be a child, parent, sibling, friend, church or community member. And it doesn’t have to be a full-time job, either. […]
Pregnant women’s drinking correlates with their partner’s drinking
Pregnant women’s use of alcohol correlates with that of their partner, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital shows. Paying attention to both parents’ use of alcohol may help to prevent drinking during pregnancy, as well as fetal exposure to the adverse effects of alcohol. Exposure to alcohol is […]
‘We May or May Not Ever Get Paid’: What We Heard This Week
“All we knew is that we may or may not ever get paid.” — Joel Hansford, MD, a partner at physician-owned staffing firm EM-Staff, on the 10 emergency physicians who went unpaid for three months by a regional hospital for shifts they worked in April. “We haven’t figured out yet how to vaccinate people through […]