Edward Spigner, a 34-year-old Flossmoor resident with the stage name of “Ded” Ed, formed the metal band Thutch in 2021. What started as a personal music project in the mid-2010s eventually became something bigger — a five-piece band full of colorful stage personas that has performed throughout Chicagoland, the Great Lakes Region[Read More…]
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Health & Wellness 2024: Sitting all day is terrible for your health – here’s a relatively easy way to counteract it
Keith Diaz, Columbia UniversityThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea To reduce the harmful health effects of sitting, take a five-minute light walk every half-hour. That’s the key finding of a 2023 study that my colleagues and I published in the journal Medicine[Read More…]
Health & Wellness 2024: Gordon asking for more menopause research funding
A resolution calling on Congress to fund menopause research will be introduced by Cook County Commissioner Monica Gordon at the National Association of County Officials at its summer meeting. Gordon said the county resolution asked for additional funding to include the long-lasting effects of menopause on women’s health. She also[Read More…]
Crowd gathers to watch the solar eclipse outside the Homewood library
About 50 community members gathered outside the Homewood Public Library (HPL) to watch the partial solar eclipse on the afternoon of Monday, April 8. While Homewood wasn’t in the line of totality, the moon covered about 94.9% of the sun at the peak of the eclipse, according to a map[Read More…]
Health & Wellness 2024: Nurse navigators guide patients through medical terrain
As medical services become more advanced and effective, the process also can be increasingly complex.Various health care providers, insurance companies and government regulations all play a part in a dizzying array of factors swirling around any given treatment. The process might seem as daunting as the illness or injury, but[Read More…]
Health & Wellness 2024: Flossmoor doctor leads as hospital adapts to changes
The health care world is changing rapidly, and a Flossmoor physician is at the helm of medical operations at Franciscan Health’s Olympia Fields hospital, guiding the local facility through those changes.Dr. Fulton Porter stepped into the role of chief medical officer and vice president of medical affairs at the end[Read More…]
Health & Wellness 2024: Miller’s initiatives raising heart disease awareness
Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller has worked to raise awareness of heart disease and was responsible for every Cook County employee being trained to give emergency response to those suffering a heart attack. “Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Illinois, and Cook County in particular has the[Read More…]
Health & Wellness 2024: Rep. Kelly co-sponsorsbill for stillbirth research
U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill, continues her work on improving maternal health by co-sponsoring the Stillbirth Health Improvement and Education (SHINE) for Autumn Act introduced in Congress in March.The bill, HR 5012, passed out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee. The legislation aims to prevent stillbirth through[Read More…]
Health & Wellness 2024: Franciscan set to expand services at Cherry Creek
Franciscan Health has had a presence in Homewood’s Cherry Creek shopping center on Governors Highway for years, but its footprint is poised to expand from its current physical therapy clinic to include more services in a bigger space. The space the organization has now, less than 8,000 square feet, will[Read More…]
CDC relaxes safety guidelines for COVID-19 infection
It was four years ago, on March 13, 2020, that the United States shut down in an effort to control the COVID-19 virus. Now, with fewer people dying from the disease and a great number of Americans vaccinated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has relaxed its guidelines for[Read More…]