Tag: Chicago

Kid intellectual fitness sources for Chicago dad and mom

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 Sharika Soukup

Chicago children have masses to be wired about. Between the pandemic, gun violence, lively shooter drills, social media and financial uncertainty, increasingly more children are reporting that their intellectual fitness has taken a success. Final fall, the American Academy of Pediatrics declared the state of kid and adolescent intellectual fitness within the U.S. to be…

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Black health care providers in Chicago look to end treatment inequality

June 8, 2022 Sharika Soukup

When Chantina Wilson was six months pregnant, she started having abdominal pains. She scheduled an appointment with her doctor, a white man, who told her she was having Braxton-Hicks contractions. But this wasn’t Wilson’s first pregnancy. She knew what contractions felt like. Still, her doctor ignored her protests and sent her home with prescription-strength Tylenol….

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How One Health Center Is Leading Chicago on Kid Covid Shots

November 16, 2021 Sharika Soukup

CHICAGO — As the medical assistant put on rubber gloves and readied the syringe, 5-year-old Victoria Macias, wearing a pink Minnie Mouse mask and white blouse, turned her head away and closed her eyes. “It’s not going to hurt, OK? I’ll hold your hand, I’ll hold your hand,” said her older sister, Alondra, 8. “Deep…

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