Individuals in the following counties, especially Black men and women and white men, are facing higher rates of lung cancer than those in neighboring counties, and are encouraged to participate in the program, which runs through the end of June: Cook County & Collar Counties Kankakee,Mac...
Conclusions Spatial access to primary care providers is a predictor of colorectal cancer‐specific survival in Cook County, Illinois. Future research is needed to determine which areas within the cancer care continuum are most affected by spatial accessibility to primary care such as referral for ...
Low crime rates make a difference as well. All the top retirement destinations take a cue from Arizona’s Sun City, the first planned community for active older adults that introduced the concept that retirees liked being busy and engaged, with little interest in just fading away. Whiling away...
The ballot measures voters favored would allow officials in each county to work with those from other counties to form a new state. But the proposals stop short of declaring independence. Indiana lawmakers responded to those votes by advancing a bill that could start state-level talks. "Instead ...
We obtained the publicly available county level cancer incidence dataset (1987-2011) from the Illinois State Cancer Registry to calculate age-adjusted incidence rates (IDPH,, Illinois,). Cancer cases in this dataset were coded by site using site group definitions established by the National Cancer...
OpenSeadragon is “an open-source, web-based viewer for high-resolution zoomable images” that is already being used by numerous institutions of diverse scope. Here are some projects using OpenSeadragon that are definitely worth checking out: The Cancer Digital Slide Archive Deep Zoom Chattanooga [...
In the 1970s, the nutritional quality of school lunches was called into question again when a government report found that the meals "fell far short of providing minimum nutritional standards," were high in fat and low in iron, and could be linked to growing rates of obesity. These findings...
*Telegraph | Judge denies protection order for Madison County board member after social media dispute:A hostile response to a social media post by Madison County Board member Alison Lamothe led to a court hearing Thursday, where Associate Judge John Hackett denied Lamothe’s request for an order ...
The Texas state capital is also one of the hippest cities in the country. Every year, theSouth by Southwest (SXSW) Festivalrolls into town, bringing the latest in film, music, and tech. The rest of the year, Austin is well-known for its flourishing music scene, delicious food, and coll...
All the while, they billed my mother hundreds in hourly rates for various clerical services but provided no benefit to her. After my father died in 2006, I tried to intervene, moving to New York to take care of my mother because I was not allowed to bring her back to California, where...