The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced it’s providing a one-time, bulk shipment of 1 million COVID-19 rapid antigen tests to K-12 public school districts outside of Chicago for the upcoming 2022-2023 school year.
Wednesday, the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered an “uncommon bacteria that causes melioidosis,’ in soil samples from the coast of Mississippi.
It won’t be long before drum majors start leading high school marching bands in halftime performances. Before anyone can take the field, all band students must have a pre-performance physical on file.
On Monday, the Biden Administration planned to name a Monkeypox coordinator. This comes just two months after the United States confirmed its first case, and now, the president is also considering declaring the outbreak a public health emergency. However, local health leaders aren’t sounding the alarm in the bi-state area
She hikes trails by running, climbing, and exploring. By looking at her take on the wilderness, you would never guess that not long ago she weighed two pounds and was fighting for her life.
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) announced over $49 million in funding for a variety of health care programs across the state, including several in the Heartland.
We all know medical, vision and dental services can be expensive. One Heartland mission is to provide those services for no cost for the rest of the month.
The program is headed up by Tammy Kochel, associate dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and involves other faculty, three doctoral students and one master’s student.
One healthcare facility in Cape Girardeau is still seeing the demand for these COVID products as they have been supplying area residents for now a year.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has reported a confirmed case of a rare brain disease that hasn’t been identified among a Missouri resident in 35 years.
Syphilis cases continue to increase in Missouri. 63 cases of congenital syphilis cases were reported, and this has been the highest number of cases since 1994.
Water supply disruption can not only be a inconvenience for you but can be dangerous as deadly diseases like Legionnaire's can form under certain conditions.
Illinois clinics were already seeing a spike in demands for abortion services before the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe V. Wade was handed down on Friday
