Health
Looking at health issues.
Dr. Vin Gupta addresses a critical community health need.
Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) save lives.
Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) save lives. Every single community center, gym, recreational facility, soccer field, restaurant should have a functioning one easily accessible and staff trained to use them. https://t.co/dGnoxPQAMCRead More
Check to health department
Kendall PADS closes for good, transfers funds to health department
After several years of providing meals, shelter, and social services to the area’s unhoused community, Kendall County PADS has decided to dissolve the nonprofit homeless support organization. Citing concerns overRead More
Work of Drs. Maria Elena Bottazzi & Peter Hotez
CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally
CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally CORBEVAX uses recombinant DNA technology that many countries already have the infrastructure to produce. Artis777 via iStock/Getty ImagesRead More
The clinic is located at 61 S. Broadway, in the building that formerly housed Mission Possible...
Free healthcare clinic in Aurora is seeking volunteers to continue making mission possible
By Tom Siebert AURORA, Ill., Dec. 20, 2021 — Jack Sharratt felt an aching void in his life after recently retiring from a 25-year career as a chiropractor. But theRead More
According to the Kane County Health Department, 11.8 percent of county residents have no health insurance.
Free healthcare clinic in Aurora is seeking volunteers to continue making mission possible
By Tom Siebert AURORA, Ill., Oct. 1, 2021 — Jack Sharratt felt an aching void in his life after recently retiring from a 25-year career as a chiropractor. But theRead More
Public drive-thru pop-ups resume Saturday, Sept. 18 and Friday, Oct. 1.
Aurora mobile food pantry to visit senior, low-income, supportive living facilities… pop-ups coming
AURORA, Ill., Sept. 6, 2021 — For the first time, Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry’s mobile pop-up pantry will visit Fox Valley senior, low-income and supportive living facilities. A truckRead More
RNS interview with Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health
Francis Collins ‘a bit’ frustrated with evangelicals amid COVID-19 vaccine push
by: Adelle M. Banks Sept. 10, 2021 (RNS) — A day after President Joe Biden announced sweeping policy changes to continue to address the COVID-19 pandemic, one of his administration’sRead More
His firing comes at a time when Americans face a new surge of COVID-19 infections...
NRB spokesman Dan Darling fired after pro-vaccine statements on ‘Morning Joe’
by: Bob Smietana August 27, 2021 (RNS) — The spokesman for a major evangelical nonprofit was fired for promoting vaccines on the MSNBC “Morning Joe” cable news show, Religion NewsRead More