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Home » health

Tag: health

Posted inAgenda

Vaccines, curried chicken, mushroom talk, and music duos

by Micco Caporale and Salem Collo-Julin July 31, 2022July 31, 2022

Have you scheduled your monkeypox (MPV) vaccine yet? While the virus is spreading rapidly among people who have sex with MSM (men who have sex with men), anyone can catch it. Intimate skin-to-skin contact with someone who has MPV is the highest risk activity (note that condoms alone are likely not enough to prevent transmission), […]

Posted inOn Prisons

A very dark place

by Anthony Ehlers May 26, 2022December 21, 2022

Maintaining mental health in prison was already challenging before COVID-19 hit.

Posted inNews & Politics

Abortion is healthcare

by Katie Prout and Jim Daley May 3, 2022July 28, 2022

Tips on obtaining an abortion and supporting abortion access in a post-Roe vs Wade world

Posted inArts & Culture

You’re not allowed to just be old and embrace it

by Kimberly Dark and Heather Corinna October 14, 2021October 13, 2021

Writers Heather Corinna and Kimberly Dark got together to discuss recent writing, menopause, body image, and more this summer while west coast resident Kimberly was in Chicago visiting her son and his family. The pandemic made it difficult for them to host a public event, so they decided to share their conversation with Reader readers. […]

Posted inNews & Politics

‘If they cannot hear you when you whisper, watch when you say a cuss word’

by Francesca Mathewes October 14, 2020August 18, 2021

Black and trans activists build networks of support and mutual aid at Brave Space Alliance.

Posted inNews & Politics

You’re going to be OK

by Rima Parikh October 14, 2020August 18, 2021

Dealing with health anxiety during COVID and beyond

Posted inColumns & Opinion

I lost my voice to COVID-19

by Laura Noah October 6, 2020August 18, 2021

But I, and thousands of other “long-haulers,” can’t afford to stay silent any longer.

Posted inCity Life

Get tested and enjoy sweater weather with confidence

by Salem Collo-Julin October 2, 2020August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator

Posted inNews & Politics

Three organs, one life

by B. David Zarley October 16, 2019August 18, 2021

The heart, liver, kidney triple crown is something of a specialty for UChicago Medicine. For Daru Smith, a triple transplant was his only hope.

Posted inCity Life

Dogs and heatstroke

by Sarah Watts and Lucius Wisniewski August 7, 2019August 18, 2021
Posted inCity Life

Can I pay for Mr. Whiskers?

by Salem Collo-Julin August 7, 2019August 18, 2021

Helping those in need keep their animal companions

Posted inNews & Politics

The flu explainer Chicago didn’t know it needed

by Aimee Ortega December 20, 2018August 18, 2021

Health is a civic undertaking.

Posted inNews & Politics

Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center is a good place to warm up in the winter

by Anne Elizabeth Moore December 18, 2018August 18, 2021

Along with classes, events, and workshops, the center provides support for the people of Puerto Rico in the wake of hurricanes Irma and Maria.

Posted inBlogs

Riot Fest announces its first wave of acts for 2018

by Leor Galil May 30, 2018August 18, 2021

Riot Fest got Blink-182! Cypress Hill! Blondie! The Jesus Lizard! Liz Phair! Atmosphere! Beck! Cat Power! And . . . the 82-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis?

Posted inNews & Politics

An East Chicago community dissolves in the fallout from a decades-long lead crisis

by Alyssa Schukar May 3, 2017August 18, 2021

Residents from the West Calumet community in East Chicago are scattering across the region as they flee dangerously contaminated homes.

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