Organization | • | Illinois Department of Public Health | [X] |
| | 301: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 November 2 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck is reporting a second probable case of fungal meningitis associated with the use of an epidural steroid injection medication. The investigation is ongoing. | | | | Date Created: | 11 02 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1200**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045491 Original UID: 25037 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 302: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 November 15 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | In an effort to increase awareness of rural health-related issues, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH), along with the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health, is celebrating the second National Rural Health Day. Governor Pat Quinn proclaimed November 15, 2012, National Rural Health Day in Illinois to encourage residents to recognize the unique health care needs and opportunities in Illinois rural communities. | | | | Date Created: | 11 15 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1223**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045857 Original UID: 25362 FIRST WORD: Improving | |
| 303: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 November 15 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is encouraging Illinois smokers to Call it Quits today by participating in the 37th annual Great American Smokeout. Held annually on the third Thursday in November, The Smokeout is a national tobacco cessation day intended to raise awareness on the dangers of tobacco and to help tobacco users quitfor at least one daywith the hope that they will quit for good. | | | | Date Created: | 11 15 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1237**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045904 Original UID: 25465 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 304: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 November 16 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Safe food handling for a healthier holiday. | | | | Date Created: | 11 16 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1246**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045907 Original UID: 25468 FIRST WORD: Start | |
| 305: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 Novmeber 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has launched Alone for a Lifetime, a new anti-smoking campaign depicting the powerful personal and emotional impact that smoking-related illnesses have on smokers families especially their children. The campaign includes billboard and print ads, and a television commercial being shown statewide. | | | | Date Created: | 11 20 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1263**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045931 Original UID: 25489 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 306: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 November 21 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | While gathered for the Thanksgiving holiday, whether at the table eating turkey, or later enjoying pumpkin pie, talk with your parents, siblings, grandparents and kids about some of the health issues that may run in your family. Each year since 2004, the Surgeon General has declared Thanksgiving to be National Family History Day, a day to learn what health risk you may face or are facing, so you can take action to control them. | | | | Date Created: | 11 21 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1279**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045949 Original UID: 25511 FIRST WORD: Talk | |
| 307: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 November 29 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Congressman Danny Davis (D-Ill.), local HIV/AIDS health providers and other special guests are joining the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) in commemorating World AIDS Day at 10 a.m., Friday, November 30, 2012 at Chatham 14 Theaters, 210 W. 87th St., Chicago. The news conference begins at 10 a.m. | | | | Date Created: | 11 29 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1296**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045974 Original UID: 25529 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 308: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 November 30 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) today urged Illinoisans to join the global effort to stop the spread of HIV infection by supporting awareness and testing, and facilitating access to education and quality healthcare on World AIDS Day. | | | | Date Created: | 11 30 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1303**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045987 Original UID: 25537 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 309: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 December 1 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | To help stay healthy during the holidays and into next year, give the gift of health by getting a flu shot to not only protect you, but others as well. National Influenza Vaccination Week (NIVW), December 2-8, 2012, is a national observance established to highlight the importance of flu vaccinations and encourage more people to be vaccinated after the holiday season, into January, and beyond. | | | | Date Created: | 12 01 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1306**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045989 Original UID: 25539 FIRST WORD: How | |
| 310: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 December 4 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Women on the Move and Flavor Tripping are just two of the sessions during this years Illinois Women's Health Conference at the Hilton in Springfield. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Office of Women's Health, along with the Illinois Public Health Association (IPHA), will host hundreds of public health and medical educators, dieticians, nurses, physicians, physician assistants and others interested in womens health issues during the two-day conference, which is open to the public. This years conference topics include cardiovascular disease, the Affordable Care Act, diabetes, cancer, exercise, diet and more. | | | | Date Created: | 12 04 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1315**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000045999 Original UID: 25548 FIRST WORD: Illinois | |
| 311: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 December 5 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Often seen as the caregivers, many women often neglect to take care of themselves and their health. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Office of Women's Health, along with the Illinois Public Health Association (IPHA), hosts the Illinois Women's Health Conference every year to focus on the unique issues women face and help ensure they get the preventative care and educational tools they need to stay healthy. | | | | Date Created: | 12 05 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1322**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000046006 Original UID: 25555 FIRST WORD: 14th | |
| 312: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 December 11 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Fancy dips, tempting hors d'oeuvres and delightful desserts are some of the culinary treats we see at holiday dinners, office parties or other celebrations. However, those get-togethers could result in foodborne illness if you are not careful. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that each year roughly one in six Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. In Illinois, it is estimated that as many as 250,000 cases of foodborne illness may occur each year. However, because these illnesses can be mild and because the vast majority of them occur in the home, many go unreported. | | | | Date Created: | 12 11 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1351**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000046089 Original UID: 25639 FIRST WORD: Holiday | |
| 313: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 December 14 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Hospital Report Card and Consumer Guide to Health Care website now contains the first infection surveillance data available statewide on hospital-acquired infections for two of the most common and often life-threatening bacterium found in Illinois hospitals. | | | | Date Created: | 12 14 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1362**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000046136 Original UID: 25680 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 314: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 December 20 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Public Health's (IDPH) Center for Minority Health Services has added a feature to its pioneering Text2Survive mobile service that will allow health providers to send patients medical appointment reminders for clinic visits via text message to their mobile phones. | | | | Date Created: | 12 20 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1379**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000046158 Original UID: 25707 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 315: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 December 28 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) would like to say, Thanks from the bottom of our lungs as it celebrates the 5th anniversary of the Smoke-Free Illinois Act (SFIA). Illinois enacted the SFIA on January 1, 2008 and was the 13th state to have a comprehensive smoke-free law prohibiting smoking in workplaces, restaurants, bars, theaters, museums, schools, casinos and other enclosed public places. On January 1, 2013, the Department is launching the Thanks from the bottom of our lungs campaign to encourage Illinoisans to continue to support smoke-free environments and the health benefits they bring. | | | | Date Created: | 12 28 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1399**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000046221 Original UID: 25768 FIRST WORD: Thanks | |
| 316: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 December 31 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | To help protect your health and safety in public swimming pools and at water parks, on January 1, 2013, Illinois will enact new legislation that calls for swimming facility engineers, architects and contractors to be prequalified by the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH). There will also be a new fee structure for swimming facilities to ensure inspectors can respond to complaints and inspect public swimming facilities more frequently and in a timely manor. Swimming facility fees in Illinois have not increased in almost 40 years. | | | | Date Created: | 12 31 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1403**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000046222 Original UID: 25769 FIRST WORD: January | |
| 317: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 January 9 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck advises the public on the current flu situation in Illinois. | | | | Date Created: | 01 09 2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 26**13 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000046261 Original UID: 25805 FIRST WORD: High | |
| 318: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 January 11 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | As with much of the country, Illinois is experiencing a severe flu season with many people becoming sick and more hospitalizations and deaths being reported than in previous years. | | | | Date Created: | 01 11 2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 34**13 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000046267 Original UID: 25811 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 319: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2013 January 18 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | During National Cervical Awareness Month, observed every January, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is encouraging regular screening for cervical cancer and vaccination for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV), which is the leading cause of the disease. | | | | Date Created: | 01 18 2013 | | | | Agency ID: | 50**13 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000046298 Original UID: 25844 FIRST WORD: State | |
| 320: | | Title: | | | | | Volume/Number: | 2012 October 24 | | | | Issuing Agency: | | | | | Description: | Press Release: IDPH kicks off new condom awareness campaign at annual conference. | | | | Date Created: | 10 24 2012 | | | | Agency ID: | 1158**12 | | | | ISL ID: | 000000046310 Original UID: 25857 FIRST WORD: State | |
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