Clinical Studies to Test New Diabetic Treatment

Will test progression of kidney disease

'Healthy Communities' Grant Media Coverage

Decatur School Students to Benefit from 'Healthy Communities' Grant (SIU Medicine) SIU School of Medicine Helping Improve Students’ Health (ladyclick.info) SIU School of Medicine Helping Improve

Elephant ears, corn dogs and shake-ups, oh my!

It’s Illinois State Fair time again! What’s your favorite fair food? Consider a meal of a few of the most popular choices on the fair’s menu: a jumbo corn dog, funnel cake and a chocolate shake. At

Health Care Providers Invited to Learn About Immune Cancer Therapy, HPV

Simmons Cancer Institute to Host 16th Annual Symposium

Home Sweet Home: IDoA Issues Grant to Help Keep Alzheimer's Patients in Homes Longer

People living with Alzheimer’s disease may be able to stay in their homes longer, thanks to a three-year, $701,994 grant to Southern Illinois University Medicine’s Center for Alzheimer’s Disease and

Decatur School Students to Benefit from 'Healthy Communities' Grant

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine has received a $42,000 grant for a planning project to improve the health and wellness of students in Decatur public schools. Decatur Public School

'Why don't they report?': Domestic violence

When a domestic violence matter becomes news, one question is always shouted the loudest: why didn’t she leave? And with that question comes the implication that, by staying in the relationship, the survivor somehow deserved what happened. As the second part in our two-part series examining why survivors of assault don’t report, we’re looking at domestic violence. Why don’t victims leave, and why don’t they call the police?

Internal Medicine provides Diabetes Education and Counseling at Springfield Housing Authority Sites

During the last two weeks of July, SIU Department of Internal Medicine clinic staff and faculty, along with 10 medical students, visited each of the three Springfield Housing Authority (SHA)

New Physician Assistants Help Ease Health Care Provider Shortage in Rural Illinois

35 learners complete SIU Medicine's Physician Assistant Program