Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order to protect residents in his state from Health and Human Services ...

Gov. JB Pritzker signed Executive Order 2025-02, asserting Illinois' dedication to the civil rights, human rights, and data ...

The Department of Health and Senior Services on Wednesday introduced a pilot program to collect information about autism. The ...

Federal health officials want to collect individuals' health data so they can answer questions about autism and chronic ...

A funeral will be held Thursday in Kankakee for the late former Illinois Gov. George Ryan. Ryan had recently been moved into ...

Stat: Vinay Prasad's FDA Speech: Praises Staff, Embraces Evidence In his first address to FDA staff on Wednesday, Vinay Prasad emphasized his commitment to evidence, his admiration for agency ...

The Housing Authority of Cook County is facing a potential multimillion-dollar funding shortfall that could have broad ...

NIH and CMS partner to advance autism research by sharing Medicare and Medicaid data through a new real-world data platform.

Researchers have already used Medicaid and Medicare claims data for a long time, said Eric Rubenstein, an autism researcher at Boston University. The data is ideal for studying health disparities and ...

The Governor’s office said the executive order made Illinois the first state to make that restriction. The order is Pritzker’s response to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s ...

The Trump administration is dismantling public health organizations and spreading misinformation about measles vaccines, ...

“Pertussis classically in the beginning looks like a cold and then turns into a very bad cough that leads to these, kind of, paroxysms of coughing,” Berry said. “In very young children, it tends to ...