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Nearly half of physicians show signs of burnout, and at twice the rate of the general public, according to the American Medical Association's Dr. Christine Sinsky.

Fighting physician burnout earns Northwestern, other medical groups recognition from AMA

September 26, 2019 at 10:20 a.m.

The American Medical Association this week recognized three Illinois health systems as workplaces making strides toward improving an issue they say is causing doctors to leave their profession — burnout....

Five young people in Illinois are suing top e-cigarette producer Juul Labs.

5 more young people in Illinois sue e-cigarette giant Juul over nicotine addiction, health problems

October 21, 2019 at 9:47 a.m.

Five young people in Illinois are the latest to file a federal lawsuit, calling out the makers of e-cigarettes for marketing tactics they say targeted minors and got them hooked...

Frankie Velazquez, left, and Louie Stevenson using e-cigarettes in Chicago's financial district on Sept. 16, 2019. The Illinois Department of Public Health launched a survey Thursday targeting adults who regularly use e-cigarettes but who have not been ill.

If you vape and haven’t gotten sick, you can help Illinois officials figure out the mystery vaping illness

September 20, 2019 at 12:18 p.m.

As Illinois public health officials continue to examine what's making some people who vape so sick, they say it's important to also learn about those who haven't succumbed to the...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 17: Andy Ramkumar, who works at Gotham Vape in Queens, vapes at the store on September 17, 2019 in New York City. Gotham Vape features a lounge area to vape as long as selling hundreds of different vaping products. Vaping, which many Americans have taken up as an alternative to smoking, has come under increased federal scrutiny following a rash of deaths related to vaping cannabis. Lawmakers in New York are currently considering a ban on flavored vaping products which make up a significant part of the vape industry.

Doctors wonder if traditional smoking cessation methods will help people quit vaping

September 20, 2019 at 2:07 p.m.

Inspired and scared by the recent spate of hospitalizations and deaths from a mystery respiratory illness linked to vaping, young people can be seen throwing out their e-cigarettes on social...

The FDA has launched a criminal investigation to analyze more than 150 vaping product samples.

The FDA is launching a criminal investigation as teens continue to vape despite 530 cases of a mystery illness

September 19, 2019 at 4:55 p.m.

The number of people sick from vaping continues to climb — and federal and state public health officials still don't know what's hurting them — as the FDA has launched...

Frankie Paulino, of Chicago, uses his vaping device at Dearborn and Jackson streets in Chicago on Sept. 16, 2019. Paulino believes that excessive vaping is bad and prefers the mint flavor.

Vaping has claimed 7 lives. Doctors wonder if traditional smoking cessation methods will help people quit

September 18, 2019 at 5:04 p.m.

Inspired and scared by the recent spate of hospitalizations and deaths from a mystery respiratory illness linked to vaping, young people can be seen throwing out their e-cigarettes on social...

Patient Izzy Murphy, 13, receives a free shampoo and styling from stylist and volunteer Eli Winters at Lurie Children's Hospital's salon in Chicago on Sept. 9, 2019.

Lurie Children’s Hospital gives free haircuts to sick kids, their parents: ‘A haircut is a little boost of confidence’

September 13, 2019 at 4:44 p.m.

Lying back in a chair with her head in a hair-washing sink, Jeanette Saribekian chatted with the stylist massaging shampoo into her scalp about how she usually goes to the...

Public health officials still aren't sure what substances vaped, or which products used, are responsible for the respiratory illness that is linked to 450 cases across the country.

As Trump pushes flavor ban, 5 things to know about vaping and the recent health scare

October 21, 2019 at 9:55 a.m.

Known for the dessert-sounding flavors that President Donald Trump proposed banning Wednesday, e-cigarettes, used for vaping, have come under fire this summer as hundreds of otherwise healthy, mostly young people...

Sen. Dick Durbin holds an e-cigarette during a news conference Sept. 9, 2019, at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, calling on the Food and Drug Administration to swiftly and strictly regulate the vaping industry.

Sen. Dick Durbin says FDA should strengthen regulation of vaping industry — or the head of the FDA should resign

September 9, 2019 at 4:02 p.m.

Sen. Dick Durbin is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to swiftly and strictly regulate the vaping industry, comparing it to Big Tobacco preying on youth. "It looks so...

Holly Becker, right, hugs Dania Davey as Patrick Davey watches during a press conference Sept. 8, 2019, at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Illinois. The Daveys traveled from New York to Loyola to meet Becker, whose life was saved from a stem cell transplant from Patrick Davey's donated umbilical cord in 1998. Dania Davey, 59, of New York, was the mother who donated her firstborn child's umbilical cord. That baby is now 25-year-old Patrick Davey. The parties found each other, by chance, after completing genealogy kits.

Cancer survivor meets donors of umbilical cord blood that saved her life — after AncestryDNA says they’re related

September 9, 2019 at 12:36 p.m.

Holly Becker — a cancer survivor for more than 20 years — first hugged the man whose stem cells saved her life, and then embraced his mother who made it...

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