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This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

I had COVID-19 and here is my story

Post author:Elizabeth Schneider / Featured Post
Post published:March 13, 2020
Post category:Community Voices Government Health Care

Elizabeth Schneider is a marketing program manager at NanoString Technologies and is based in Seattle, Washington. This is a republication of her Facebook post…

Graphic by Ramiro Ferrando

Data shows wide variations in access to abortion clinics nationwide

Post author:Ramiro Ferrando / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:February 8, 2019
Post category:Health Care

With the fewest abortion providers in the U.S. and the highest number of restrictive policies enacted since it became legal, U.S. women’s access to…

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In their own words: Three stories of abortion

Post author:Ramiro Ferrando / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:February 8, 2019
Post category:Health Care

n spite of being in an all-time low, abortions are still a highly demanded health service. According to a study by the American Journal of Public Health nearly one in four women in the U.S. will have an abortion by age 45. Here, three women share their stories.

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While abortion clinics diminish, crisis pregnancy centers flourish

Post author:Ramiro Ferrando / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:February 8, 2019
Post category:Health Care

While the state of Illinois is often called an abortion “oasis” in the Midwest because of easier access to abortions than neighboring states, there are 86 crisis pregnancy centers – known as CPCs - compared with 25 abortion clinics in Illinois. Champaign has two of those centers.

Graphic by Ramiro Ferrando

Illinois provides abortion ‘oasis’ to those seeking services

Post author:Ramiro Ferrando / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:February 8, 2019
Post category:Health Care

As some of its neighboring states have enacted laws restricting abortion access and more clinics have been closing their doors, Illinois is now more than ever an abortion “oasis” in the Midwest. Indeed, data from the Illinois Department of Public Health show that the percentage of women from out of state who seek abortions has more than doubled since 2010.

Read more about the article Newborn genetic testing bill on Rauner’s desk after long delay

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University of Illinois student Nicky Piunti on campus on May 8. Piunti is taking a new drug, Spinraza, that benefits some patients with SMA.

Newborn genetic testing bill on Rauner’s desk after long delay

Post author:Aly May / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:May 23, 2018
Post category:Health Care

The Illinois legislature is sending a bill to Governor Bruce Rauner that requires the state to screen newborns for a genetic neurological muscle disease…

Read more about the article New bill addresses Illinois concussion response in prep sports

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Athletic trainer Dustin Fink in the Mt. Zion High School training room where he has screened athletes for concussions. Photo taken on Friday, May 22, 2015.

New bill addresses Illinois concussion response in prep sports

Post author:Sean Hammond / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:May 26, 2015
Post category:Health Care Public Health

Dustin Fink suffered his first concussion growing up in Lone Tree, Colorado, when he ran into a post on the playground in fourth grade. It was the mid-1980s and the school nurse looked him over, he recalled, sent him back to class and that was that.

Dr. Jerrad Zimmerman is a physician in Carle Foundation Hospital’s sports medicine department.

Indiana high school athletic association tries concussion logging system; Illinois considers similar plan

Post author:Sean Hammond / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:May 26, 2015
Post category:Health Care Public Health

The Indiana High School Athletic Association logged 1,217 concussive events in high school athletics throughout Indiana during the fall season. How many occurred in Illinois? Nobody knows for sure.

Read more about the article Local tattoo artists frustrated with lax law, lack of quality health inspections

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Ray Allen Hughes of Champaign Tattoo with his registration receipt in his studio in Champaign, ILL on Friday, May 1, 2015.

Local tattoo artists frustrated with lax law, lack of quality health inspections

Post author:Kirsten Keller / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:May 14, 2015
Post category:Health Care Public Health

Some local tattoo artists are expressing frustration with the cursory inspections of their shops since Illinois took the responsibility of inspections from the Champaign-Urbana health district two years ago.

Read more about the article Nursing home ratings sometimes misleading

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Residents sit around a table during a knitting activity session as Clark-Lindsey Retirement Village on Nov. 7, 2014. Clark-Lindsey in Urbana and Country Health in Gifford are the only five-star facilities in Champaign County.

Nursing home ratings sometimes misleading

Post author:Robert Holly / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:December 21, 2014
Post category:Elderly Watch Health Care Public Health

Since 2011, dozens of central Illinois nursing homes have improved their five-star Medicare rating, some by as much as four stars. But that improvement, some critics say, is not an accurate representation.