Monthly Archives: July 2016
Illinois Poison Center Warns Lollapalooza Attendees to Avoid Synthetic Drugs and Drug Substitutions
As the Lollapalooza music festival celebrates its 25th anniversary, the Illinois Poison Center (IPC) encourages concertgoers and festival attendees across the state to stay safe by avoiding drugs, especially synthetic… Read more
CVS to Join Pharmacies Selling Opioid Overdose Reversal Drug
The drug store chain CVS has announced that it is making naloxone, a drug to reverse the effects of opioid overdose, available without prescription at all of its Texas stores…. Read more
Cats Raise Their Paws for Public Health
Rats—animals known for spreading disease—continue to plague cities like Chicago and New York, so residents and exterminators are finding more creative ways to stop outbreaks, CNN reports. The most effective… Read more
Blood Clot Deaths Tied to Hours of Daily TV Time
People who watch television for five or more hours a day have more than twice the risk of those who watch half as much TV to die of a blood… Read more
Inducing Labor Doesn’t Increase Autism Risk, Study Suggests
Inducing labor doesn’t appear to increase the odds that a woman will have a child with autism, a new study suggests. Researchers examined data on more than 1.3 million births… Read more
Teens Who Play Sports Less Likely to Say They’ve Done Heroin
Teens who play sports are less likely than those who don’t to say they’ve ever used opioid painkillers without a prescription or heroin, according to a new U.S. study. Researchers… Read more
St. Catherine of Siena Candidates Research STEM Topics at Dominican University
The St. Catherine of Siena program at Queen of Peace High School is an intense, immersive three year experience where select high achieving students are invited to start independent research… Read more
Martinez Plan to Improve the State Seal of Biliteracy Becomes Law
A proposal that will help students meet foreign language requirements when they apply for college has been signed into law. Majority Caucus Whip Iris Y. Martinez (D-Chicago) sponsored the initiative… Read more
Young, Female and Telling Stories That Matter
This summer, 16 young women who are Chicago Housing Authority residents are immersing themselves in the world of film and learning to produce their own documentaries. The program is part… Read more
What If the Hackers Were Mexican?
by Daniel Nardini Obviously, the hackers were not Mexican. It is widely believed that the hackers who broke into the Democratic National Committee’s private e-mails were from a superpower that… Read more »