Elvia Malagon

1 week ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Elvia Malagon

Delinda Phillips has cared for seniors in some capacity since she was a child, tagging along with her mother, who worked as a home healthcare worker. Phillips, 55, of Chicago, has been in the healthcare industry for the past 26 years and works as a certified nursing assistant at a nursing home in Oak Lawn, and she’s worried about what the looming Medicaid cuts will mean for patients she cares for and for her career.

2 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Elvia Malagon

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is calling for Illinois lawmakers to include attacks against reproductive health centers as an act of terrorism following a car bombing outside a fertility clinic in California. O’Neill Burke issued a call this week for legislation that would amend the state criminal code to define any act that creates substantial damage to a reproductive health clinic or facility as terrorism.

3 weeks ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Elvia Malagon

Cornelia Tischmacher had always longed to become a mother. Then at 40 years old, she gave birth to twins, Leo and Lucie. But within a year of their births, doctors in her native Germany diagnosed her with lung cancer despite not having any significant history of smoking. “This is the one thing that just cannot happen,” Tischmacher recalled thinking as she recounted her ordeal recently from a Northwestern Memorial Hospital exam room.

1 month ago | wbez.org | Elvia Malagon

“Breathe in and out.”Those are the instructions from Amy Landolt as the licensed acupuncturist inserts five small orange needles into the upper part of a person’s ear at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center in Evanston. One needle is for stress, another puts the body at rest, and a third is used to heal internal organs and process fear, she explains. A fourth needle is inserted for irritability, and the fifth one is for “letting go of things that no longer serve you,” she says.

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Elvia Malagon

“Breathe in and out.”Those are the instructions from Amy Landolt as the licensed acupuncturist inserts five small orange needles into the upper part of a person’s ear at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Center in Evanston. One needle is for stress, another puts the body at rest and a third is used to heal internal organs and process fear, she explains. A fourth needle is inserted for irritability and the fifth one is for “letting go of things that no longer serve you,” she says.