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UChicago Medicine’s Dr. Emily Landon to answer reader questions about COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday on Facebook Live

March 23, 2021 at 12:44 p.m.

As more and more Illinoisans become vaccinated, officials and residents are beginning to look ahead to what comes next. With Chicago anticipating entering a new vaccination phase at the end...

Beth Bales Olson is seen at her home in Geneva on March 15, 2021. She is 64 and was just scheduled for her first vaccine on March 18, 2021, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.

What’s it like to be 64 in the age of COVID-19?

March 16, 2021 at 2:38 p.m.

Vaccinations are underway, but the magic number to become vaccinated is age 65. This is the recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An Illinois Department of Public...

Marlene Durand with her son, Mar'Khail, 2 months, stands outside her Oak Park home March 10, 2021.

Doulas and postpartum home visits may be covered under Medicaid in new Illinois proposal

March 12, 2021 at 5:12 p.m.

If it hadn't been for her doula, Marlene Durand might not have realized she was in labor. Durand, 21, now the mom of a 2-month-old son, knew she wanted someone...

Sheila Krogh-Jespersen enjoys the spring weather with her husband, Brian Matras, and their children, Claire, 2, and Ada, 6 months, outside their Lincolnwood home on March 9, 2021. A Northwestern psychologist, Krogh-Jespersen had the coronavirus while she was pregnant.

Pregnant women deserve more COVID-19 vaccine data, says Sen. Tammy Duckworth in letter to CDC director

March 11, 2021 at 12:42 p.m.

Pregnant women in the United States must be given access to COVID-19 vaccines and deserve more safety data collected and distributed, Sen. Tammy Duckworth and 10 other legislators said in...

La mayoría de los adultos necesitan de 7 a 8 horas de sueño de calidad cada noche, según el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos.

La pandemia destruye el sueño. Estos consejos te ayudarán a dormir mejor

March 4, 2021 at 5:28 p.m.

Esta pandemia lo ha impactado todo, por lo que no es de extrañar que también haya interrumpido nuestro sueño. Estamos preocupados por todos en nuestras vidas, bebemos demasiado alcohol y...

#1. PRODUCTION | - Workers with under 7 hours of sleep: 42.9%
- 95% confidence interval: 40.3%–45.4%
- Occupations most sleep-deprived:
--- #1. Printing workers: 50.9%
--- #2. Plant and system operators: 49.6%
--- #3. Supervisors, production workers: 48.9%

To get print newspapers and other materials to clients on time, production workers toil for long hours to meet their deadlines. As this 2019 New York Times story details, each night digital pages are sent to a plant to be "burned with lasers onto thin aluminum sheets called plates." That is the start of an arduous 365-day process of printing the paper and getting it on newsstands before sunrise—that is unless breaking news happens and production workers are ordered to "Stop the presses!" sending the whole process into upheaval.

The pandemic is crushing sleep. Here are 5 tips to help you get better shut-eye.

March 3, 2021 at 5:26 a.m.

This pandemic has impacted everything, so it is no surprise that it also has interrupted our sleep. We're worried about everyone in our lives, we're drinking too much alcohol and...

Judith Allen, clinical director of Communities in Schools of Chicago, provides mental health first aid workshops for parents, teachers and anyone who wants to take one.

Seeing rise in suicides among Black Cook County residents, city officials and mental health experts work on outreach

February 26, 2021 at 4:29 p.m.

Mental health challenges among young and older Black Chicagoans were amplified in 2020 by the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 and trauma from police brutality. With 97 Black Cook County residents...

University of Chicago bioethicist Laurie Zoloth to answer reader questions about ethical issues surrounding COVID-19 vaccines Monday on Facebook Live

March 1, 2021 at 1:24 p.m.

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised many ethical questions and considerations, from concerns about which patients should have access to a ventilator to whether wearing a mask is an individual choice....

Home Bodies: Basic fitness with YMCA of Metro Chicago

February 25, 2021 at 6:53 a.m.

When an organization has been around since 1858, it tends to have a bit of practice in adapting. One year after its founding, the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago suffered a...

Alex Morton and Stacie Pawlicki lived on the same floor of a high-rise apartment building on West Madison Street in Chicago before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. When they started spending more time at home due to the pandemic, they got to know each other better and have been dating ever since.

Stuck in the same building during COVID-19, Chicago neighbors are falling in love

February 24, 2021 at 10:01 p.m.

Alex Morton and Stacie Pawlicki are unlikely to forget their March 21 anniversary — it happened to be the same day Illinois shut down last year. And it was the...

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