Flossmoor urgent care center reopens Tuesday

The University of Chicago Medicine reopened its urgent care center in Flossmoor on Tuesday.

Biden: US to make 1 billion at-home COVID-19 tests free for Americans

President Joe Biden directed his team to double its procurement of at-home COVID-19 tests to be delivered for free to Americans, along with N95 masks.

Chicago-area healthcare workers plead for relief as COVID cases flood hospitals

Healthcare workers have been at the front lines of this pandemic since the beginning, but many of them are not being treated like the heroes they are.

COVID vaccine mandate: Supreme Court weighs rules for businesses, health care

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about the vaccine-or-testing requirement for large employers and a separate mandate for health care workers.

Coverage expands for fertility treatments in Illinois
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State Rep. Margaret Croke (D-12th) talks about her efforts to expand insurance coverage for fertility treatments in Illinois.

No Surprise Act: New law preventing unexpected medical bills takes effect Jan. 1

Patients will no longer have to worry about getting a huge bill following a medical crisis if the closest hospital emergency room happened to have been outside their insurance plan’s provider network.

Tips for preventing heart attacks over the holidays
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Dr. Bryan Smith from UChicago Medicine dishes out tips for keeping your heart healthy and active during the holiday season when heart attacks are most common.

Biden: Prescription drugs ‘outrageously expensive’ in US, calls on Senate to act

President Joe Biden pushed his “Build Back Better” agenda, focusing on how provisions of the spending bill would lower the cost of prescription drugs for many.

Pfizer signs deal to let other companies make its COVID-19 pill

Pfizer has signed a deal with a U.N.-backed group to allow other manufacturers to make its experimental COVID-19 pill in an effort to expand access.

Regeneron says single dose of antibody treatment cut COVID-19 risk by 81%

Regeneron said Monday that its monoclonal antibody treatment was shown to reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19 by 81.6% for up to eight months.

Guidance shifting around 'aspirin a day' for heart attack prevention
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Dr. Daniel Luger, director at the Rush Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, talks about the medical community's findings on the long-held guidance of taking an aspirin a day to combat the risk of heart disease.

Illinois nurse practitioner calls vaccine mandates 'disheartening'

Neelie Panozzo has chosen to fight the mandate, and is one of six nurses suing Riverside Healthcare in Kankakee, Illinois after being told she would be fired for not receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

Opponents of Texas abortion ban expand challenges

Opponents of a new Texas ban on most abortions filed a lawsuit in Illinois on Tuesday after weeks of being thwarted by courts elsewhere in their efforts to block the nation’s most restrictive abortion law.