Jack Heafey, an 89-year-old former high school teacher and Army veteran, has spent more than 11,200 hours volunteering at Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital in Palos Heights in the past 24 years.
On Saturday, April 22, Northwestern Medicine team members will distribute Narcan (naloxone) nasal spray and provide education about opioid overdose prevention during National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events.
The inaugural year of the Northwestern Medicine Discovery Program South Region showcases careers in health care for 20 students from schools in Will and southern Cook counties
A group of high school students entered Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital in Palos Heights last weekend, but not to seek medical care or to visit an ill or…
NPR reports on difficulties facing medical residents across the country which are helping drive staff to join unions, with a goal of improving working conditions. Also, a maternal care desert in suburban Philadelphia, words from the former surgeon general Jerome Adams on public health, and more.