Each week, Health & Medicine staff gather articles and other readings we find important, helpful, and informative to our work. Read below for a recap of May’s resources:

Week of 4/29

• WBEZ Chicago: Life expectancy of Chicagoans dropped by two years during the first year of the pandemic
• Healthy System Tracker: COVID-19 mortality preventable by vaccines
• Chicago Sun-Times: In Hammond, historic hospital awaits demolition amid changes in health care
• Chicago Tribune: Dick Durbin: Hospitals are doing more to tackle Chicago gun violence than treating gunshot wounds
• CBS Chicago: Harbour House, suburban homeless shelter for teens once in danger of closing, opens new chapter
• Fox 32 Chicago: Chicago nonprofit creates mobile mental health response teams to help residents
• WTTW: Illinois Health Officials: 3 Suspected Cases of Severe Hepatitis Found in Kids

Week of 5/6

• Chicago Tribune: If Roe falls, Illinois abortion providers plan for influx of 20000 to 30000 more patients traveling here each year
• NPR: The abortion underground and what lessons can be learned from the Jane Collective
• Chicago Reader: The Money Man: Billionaire Ken Griffin is Illinois biggest political benefactor. But what are his donations doing to democracy?
• Plos One: Identifying misconduct-committing officer crews in the Chicago police department
• WBEZ Chicago: New research detects the most likely criminal “crews” inside CPD
• Book Club Chicago: Latino Chicagoans life expectancy has dropped 7 years since 2012 — the steepest decline in the city
• AARP: The AARP Community Challenge has helped to encourage and create housing solutions and choices
• Chicago Beyond: Do I have the right to feel safe? A vision for holistic safety in corrections
• Book Club Chicago: With wealthy neighborhoods turning to armed private security, questions raised about accountability
• Science: It ain’t over ’til it’s over
• Reuters: Omicron as severe as other COVID variants–large US study

Week of 5/13

• Crain’s Chicago Business: Preckwinkle taps new leader for Cook County’s Department of Public Health
• New York Times: As Poor Nations Seek Covid Pills, Officials Fear Repeat of AIDS Crisis
• New York Times: Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.
• Chicago Tribune: How to protect yourself from ticks
• Johns Hopkins: COVID and the Heart: It Spares No One
• Grist: True costs: How the oil industry cast climate policy as an economic burden
• The Guardian: The CDC is beholden to corporations and lost our trust. We need to start our own
• Nature: Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne
• The Cut: The Limits of Privilege The new abortion regime is going to affect everyone.
• Block Club Chicago: With South Side Birth Center, Midwife Aims To Create ‘Utopia Of Black Birth Workers’ To Combat Disparities In Maternal Health

Week of 5/27

• WBEZ Chicago: Illinois Collects Data about Who Gets Abortions. But It Keeps It Keeps Race and Ethnicity Hidden.
• Book Club Chicago: With Wealthy Neighborhoods Turning To Armed Private Security, Questions Raised About Accountability
• WBEZ Chicago: Bucktown, Lincoln Park residents hire private security firm to guard their streets
• The New York Times: How America Lost One Million People