Stories about Health
It is springtime in the Midwest and farmers are farming to beat the band. Many farmers and farm families will spend long days in tractor cabs and in the direct sun getting the crop in the ground. When it is finally time for a break, it will more than likely be outdoors.
Rectal cancer is often treated with radiation, or combined chemotherapy and radiation, either prior to or after surgery. The dose of radiation is quite high compared to some other cancers, and the complications can be significant.
We need to move more. They call it an inactive lifestyle when we get very little exercise and do a lot of sitting.
While it is true that not exercising can lead to poor mobility, most of the time, it isn’t a person’s fault that he has difficulty with mobility. Arthritis can happen to a person of any weight and at any level of exercise.
When a prospective pharmacy student tells Dr. Heidi Olson that they’ve never thought about pharmacy as a career before, the director of the RPHARM program at the University of Illinois College of Medicine doesn’t take it personally. She’s been there herself.
Whether it’s prescribing antibiotics for an infection, drugs to ease pain after surgical procedures, lifesaving insulin for diabetes or being a health-care provider for a rural community, rural pharmacists have always filled a unique role in the medical community.
Feb. 7 was a historic day for the Crawfordsville Fire Department. When they picked up one unit of low-titer type O whole blood, they became the first rural agency in the Midwest to administer whole blood on a ground ambulance.
Crawfordsville in west-central Indiana is in the middle of a maternity-care desert, where residents have little to no access to obstetrics care.
Folks across the country will celebrate the 50th anniversary of National EMS Week May 19-25, a chance to show gratitude for emergency medical technicians and paramedics who save lives every day.
Paramedicine programs are bridging the gap between at-home health care and the emergency room.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that samples of pasteurized milk had tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus that has infected dairy cows.
Paralysis of the vocal cord is often the result of damage to the nerve that leads to the vocal cord. There’s one on each side.
Osteoarthritis in the neck is a common and painful condition, and there are not always good treatment options.
The first of three phases that move toward higher biodiesel blend sales tax exemptions was effective April 1.
The only career Bob Friestad ever considered was farming and more than seven decades later he continues to grow crops on his farm near Morris in northeastern Illinois.