Simmons Cancer Institute to host ‘financial toxicity’ presentation on Thursday, Sept. 12

SPRINGFIELD, IL - Nausea, hair loss, fatigue, appetite loss, pain. This list of common cancer treatment side effects doesn’t include “financial toxicity,” but maybe it should, according to

New Center for Family Medicine Opens

CARBONDALE, IL - SIU Medicine is welcoming patients, residents and students to a new state-of-the-art clinic and teaching facility at 300 W. Oak Street. The 40,000-square-foot space will be the home

Walk-in acupuncture appointments available at SIU Center for Family Medicine

Have you ever wanted to try acupuncture? SIU Center for Family Medicine, 520 N. 4th St. in Springfield, is now offering an auricular (ear) acupuncture clinic as of August 2019 on Thursdays from 2-4 p
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Local health care organizations, SPS 186 partner to provide back-to-school physicals, vaccines

SPRINGFIELD, IL – Children entering pre-k, kindergarten, 6 th or 9 th grade, or who are new to Springfield Public School District 186, are required to have school physicals and immunizations

SIU Medicine Recruiting Patients for High Blood Pressure Study

Minimally invasive procedure could lower blood pressure, reduce need for medication

Cancer survivors: You're invited to become a 2019 Face of Hope

Each October, Simmons Cancer Institute (SCI) at SIU, features a presentation called “Faces of Hope" at the Annual Denim & Diamonds Gala, the institute's primary fundraising event. Photos of

10 fireworks safety tips from an emergency medicine physician

Warm weather, barbeques and celebrating our independence is all a part of summer. One of the best parts of the 4 th of July is watching the sky light up with a beautiful array of colors, sparkles and

The 411 about back-to-school physicals

District 186 parents, remember to schedule your kids' back-to-school physicals!

ENT surgeon named fellow of Triological Society

The American Laryngological, Rhinological and Otological Society, Inc., better known as the Triological Society, has named SIU Medicine surgeon Sandra Ettema, MD, PhD, CCC/SLP, a fellow of its 124