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Coroners and medical examiners are starting to test for COVID-19 among those who die unexpectedly, including people who die at home. The process could help communities contain their outbreaks.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is struggling in her home state's Republican primary polls, but residents say she has broad support in her hometown of Bamberg.

A team of scientists and economists claims they've come up with the most thorough analysis of the cost of climate change in the U.S. Most of the country will suffer economic loss in addition to higher mortality from heat waves and loss of agriculture productivity by 2100. But like all predictions far into the future, this one has a wide range of outcomes and could be overshadowed by new technology still to be invented.

Scientists mapped the 548,000 connections in the brain of a fruit fly larva, but they're far from repeating the feat with a grown fruit fly. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Feb. 9, 2023.)

Even in an normal year - getting an Illinois state budget approved is complicated. But this is no normal year. And lawmakers have just a week left to get…

Advocate Eureka Hospital will be sold to Urbana-based Carle Health.

Illinois State University is home to two unique and widely admired circus traditions -- Gamma Phi Circus, the 88-year strong circus arts program for…

Illinois State University is recommending no tuition increase next year. Room and board and fees would also stay static.ISU has missed out on more than…

Now researchers in the U.K. are using maps to study variations in the way health services are delivered. The approach, pioneered at Dartmouth in the U.S., shows that the care provided can be quite different even when doctors are paid salaries.

Board member Tammy Houtzel resigned her position during a regularly scheduled board meeting on Wednesday night. Houtzel cited a relocation to LeRoy as the reason for giving up the seat.