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CHICAGO -- Every morning, Dr. Justin Fiala rides a CTA bus along Lake Shore Drive, and it feels like going into battle. Before the pandemic, stepping onto a bu…
by Tribune News Service January 25, 2022CHICAGO -- Tricia Poreda recently walked inside a COVID-19 testing center on Chicago's Northwest Side and was immediately appalled by the facility's lack of ba…
by Tribune News Service January 25, 2022WASHINGTON -- The federal website to order free rapid coronavirus tests went live last week.
by Tribune News Service January 25, 2022DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Once daylight saving time ends, I find it difficult as it gets darker earlier. I also notice I get a bit more depressed in the winter. My fri…
by Tribune News Service January 25, 2022While all women can develop cervical cancer, non-Hispanic Black women are more likely to be diagnosed and die of cervical cancer, compared to white women in th…
by Tribune News Service January 25, 2022What are the odds of catching COVID-19 after a night at the movie theater? How about an afternoon at the gym, unmasked? Or an early morning jog in a neighborho…
by Tribune News Service January 25, 2022If you need to test for COVID-19, Mayo Clinic health experts remind you not to go to the emergency department for testing. Emergency departments are for patien…
by Tribune News Service January 25, 2022ROCHESTER, Minn. -- People who use electronic cigarettes and test positive for COVID-19 have a higher frequency of experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, compared to …
by Tribune News Service January 25, 2022January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month, which provides a great opportunity to raise everyone's awareness and emphasize prevention methods. Not all …
by Cole County Health Department , Melinda Ridenhour January 25, 2022ROCHESTER, Minn.-- World Cancer Day is Feb. 4 and that makes this the ideal time to talk about lung cancer and smoking. Internationally, lung cancer is the mos…
by Tribune News Service January 25, 2022Scores upon scores of stakeholders streamed through a new set of offices Tuesday at Compass Health Network's Crisis Access Point.
by Joe Gamm January 19, 2022The Cole County Health Department forewarned media outlets Tuesday its daily COVID-19 updates would include a data dump, skewing numbers coming out of the Mart…
by Joe Gamm January 19, 2022The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000-300,000 mor…
by The Associated Press January 19, 2022COVID-19 vaccines protect you from getting sick. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says people who are up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations…
by Tribune News Service January 18, 2022The steady stream of holiday cookies and treats may have slowed, but for millions of Americans, the appetite for high-fat, sodium-laden sweets continues. Makin…
by Tribune News Service January 18, 2022