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A second Chicago measles case was diagnosed in a child staying at a migrant shelter in Pilsen, Chicago Department of Public Health officials said.

Illinois' health department released a statement amid reports this week of potential changes coming to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID...

Should there be a change in COVID guidelines and protocols for those who test positive for the virus?

A spike in COVID-19, flu and RSV cases is bringing back a familiar sight in regional hospitals and healthcare facilities — masks. But unlike universal masking policies during the pandemic, there’s...

Knock on wood, I’ve been able to avoid medical facilities lately, unlike my friend who found himself in an urgent care situation last week because of a nagging back issue. But that ailment quickly took a back seat, he told me later, as he found himself sitting in an urgent care facility in Batavia packed with sneezing and coughing and hacking patients that made him realize “I could actually ...

At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a quarter of the new patients being hospitalized each week throughout Illinois were infected with the deadly respiratory disease. This year though, that figure ne...

Dr. Jonathan Pinsky called fall 2022 “a tsunami for viruses.”

Champaign News-Gazette. October 20, 2023.

This fall, for the first time, vaccines are available to help fend off a triple viral threat. Here is what you need to know.

Effective Monday, the governments gifting COVID-19 tests again. Heres how to get new ones and how to check if the old ones youre hoarding still work.