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Capitol News Illinois

How RFK Jr.’s health proposals could affect Illinois

WASHINGTON/SPRINGFIELD (Capitol News Illinois) -- Every new presidential administration comes with policy changes, but the incoming second administration of President-elect Donald Trump and his proposed secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., could dramatically reshape the public health landscape. Kennedy, a former political rival of Trump, became a close ally of Trump over the final months of the 2024 campaign and was named to the HHS post shortly after the election. The department houses the National Institutes […]

todayDecember 5, 2024 152

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez AOC

National

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tests positive for COVID-19

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has tested positive for the coronavirus, her office said Sunday evening. In a brief statement, her office said the New York City Democrat had received a positive test result without stating when the test was administered. "She is experiencing symptoms and recovering at home," it said. "The congresswoman received her booster shot this fall, and encourages everyone to get their booster and follow all [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] guidance." Her Twitter […]

todayJanuary 9, 2022 22

BrightFarms Rochelle salmonella

Business & Lifestyle

More info on BrightFarms salmonella recall

Earlier, we reported on a salmonella outbreak in relation to salad products manufactured by BrightFarms at their Rochelle, Ill. facility. A source working with BrightFarms contacted us Saturday evening with more in-depth information relating to the outbreak. The source reveals that BrightFarms announced a voluntary recall of some of their packaged salad greens produced in Rochelle. The products in question come out of their greenhouse farm and are sold in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Indiana in addition to Illinois. The voluntary […]

todayJuly 17, 2021 39

IDPH Salmonella Typhimurium

Business & Lifestyle

Illinois health officials warn about salmonella outbreak

SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is working with local health departments, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to BrightFarms brand Sunny Crunch salad produced in Rochelle in upstate Illinois. According to the CDC, eight people report infection with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium from two states.  The timeline of the illnesses ranges from June 10 to June 15.  In Illinois, five cases […]

todayJuly 17, 2021 40

vaccine

Capitol News Illinois

State pausing use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine per federal recommendations

SPRINGFIELD (CNI) – On the advice of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Illinois will pause the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson. The federal agencies made that recommendation Tuesday morning after reporting rare and severe blood clots in six people who had taken the vaccine. The CDC and FDA are reviewing the data regarding those cases. In a news release Tuesday, the Illinois Department of Public Health advised that […]

todayApril 13, 2021 13

Lyme disease

Business & Lifestyle

New University of Illinois model could help limit spread of Lyme disease

CHAMPAIGN (The Center Square) – A new model developed at the University of Illinois could help limit the spread of Lyme disease. Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign studied both reported cases of the disease. They would additionally study the migration of the black-legged tick, which can the bacterium that causes Lyme disease. Lyme disease is an infection that can affect the nervous system, heart, and joints. “Lyme disease was apparently spreading to new areas,” said Dr. Brian Allan, […]

todayJanuary 17, 2021 55

National

Salmonella outbreak sickens 212 people in 23 states

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating an outbreak of salmonella that has sickened 212 people in 23 states. In a Friday press release the CDC reported that 87 people had become ill since its last update on the outbreak Tuesday. The agency said people began showing symptoms linked to a strain of salmonella, which can take two to four weeks to manifest symptoms, between June 19 and July 11. Thirty-one people have been hospitalized […]

todayJuly 25, 2020 32

Ballot Access News

Libertarian Party of Illinois seeking ballot access from state board of elections, Gov. Pritzker

CHICAGO (Heartland Newsfeed) -- The Libertarian Party of Illinois (LPIL) is petitioning the state's election authority for November's general election, a press release states Thursday. They're asking the Illinois State Board of Elections to grant the party ballot access. The release cites the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak as a result of the March 9 disaster proclamation by Gov. JB Pritzker. Additionally, combined with the Centers for Disease Control recommendations, it makes ballot access petitioning impossible as a result. New political parties, […]

todayMarch 19, 2020 103

Business & Lifestyle

1 in 4 Medicare recipients undergoes cardiac rehab after heart event

(UPI) -- Only one in four Medicare recipients undergo cardiac rehabilitation following a heart attack or other heart-related health event, a study has found. In research published Tuesday in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, researchers found that about 25 percent of Medicare beneficiaries participate in a cardiac rehabilitation program. Of those who did, only 24 percent initiated the program within 21 days of the acute cardiac event or surgery, and only 27 percent completed the full course of […]

todayJanuary 14, 2020 33

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