Nutrition is important, especially for those with memory loss. Eating right can be a challenge. There's the hurdle of knowing what we should eat, and then another hurdle of incorporating that into nutritious meals and snacks. This cooking class uses the expertise of SIU Culinary Medicine, as they use food that's part of the MIND Diet and show participants how to make healthy choices. Following a recipe chosen for that session, class participants follow directions and make the meal with help from SIU Culinary Medicine. Caregivers and persons with memory loss work together, finding the role best

Memorial Health and SIU Medicine have announced plans to transition the urgent care clinic at Memorial Care on North Dirksen Parkway to a federally qualified health center (FQHC) administered by SIU Medicine this summer.

Memorial Health and SIU Medicine have announced plans to transition the urgent care clinic at Memorial Care on North Dirksen Parkway to a federally qualified health center (FQHC) administered by SIU Medicine this summer.

Memorial Health and SIU Medicine have announced plans to transition the urgent care clinic at Memorial Care on North Dirksen Parkway to a federally qualified health center (FQHC) administered by SIU Medicine this summer.

Memorial Health and SIU Medicine have announced plans to transition the urgent care clinic at Memorial Care on North Dirksen Parkway to a federally qualified health center (FQHC) administered by SIU Medicine this summer.

Memorial Health and SIU Medicine have announced plans to transition the urgent care clinic at Memorial Care on North Dirksen Parkway to a federally qualified health center (FQHC) administered by SIU Medicine this summer.

“My kid could paint that.” This statement is meant as criticism when uttered by an art museum patron or gallery browser who sees similarities between an exuberant offspring and an abstract master like Pablo Picasso or Jackson Pollock. However, “My kid painted that” takes on an air of pride when a parent says it at the Sangamon County Art Exhibit, currently on display in the Medical Library at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield. A closing reception and awards ceremony for more than 70 young artists will be held 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Friday, May 10, at the medical school

Here are the young artists honored at the 2024 Sangamon County Student Art Awards.

Here are the young artists honored at the 2024 Sangamon County Student Art Awards.

For many of us, the term preventative chemotherapy is confusing. Chemotherapy is a treatment for a disease, not medication to prevent cancer, right? And if surgery removed all traces of the cancer, why would a patient need to go through chemo?