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Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump points to the crowd at an election night watch party, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP Photo)

The former president and now president-elect often skipped over details but through more than a year of policy pronouncements and written statements outlined a wide-ranging agenda. It would scale back federal government efforts on civil rights and expand presidential powers.

The CDC recommends that everyone ages 6 months and older get both a COIVD-19 and flu shot this season. (Catherine Falls Commercial / Moment RF / Getty Images via CNN Newsource)

Forecasts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that this respiratory disease season will be similar to last year’s — which brought more than 20 hospitalizations for every 100,000 people in one week at its peak — and far worse than in pre-pandemic years.

Hoosier Abbey Hall shared her abortion story — from conception to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Illinois — with the Indiana Capital Chronicle. The Carmel mother of two never expected to need the reproductive health care procedure. (Whitney Downard / Indiana Capital Chronicle)
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In the spring of 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the longstanding abortion protections established under Roe v. Wade, leaving decisions about the reproductive health care procedure up to the states. For Hoosier Abbey Hall, she never imagined such a change would impact her.

A doctor tests a patient for HIV in a file photo. (Alex Levine / iStock)

Latinos account for the largest share of new HIV diagnoses and infections among men who have sex with men — more than any other ethnic and racial demographic, according to an analysis from KFF News-Associated Press. There are over 22,000 people living with HIV in Chicago and the city saw 700 new HIV diagnoses in 2022.

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The Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network is urging people to become organ donors. According to the nonprofit, while 95% of people in the U.S. support donation, fewer than 60% are registered organ and tissue donors.

This combo of pictures show American biochemist David Baker, from left, American researcher John Jumper and Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind Technologies, the AI division behind Gemini. (UW Medicine / Google DeepMind via AP / AP Photo / Jeff Chiu)

Three scientists who discovered powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life — were awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday. 

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Chicago will no longer have members of the police and fire departments on its mental health emergency response teams. The Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement (CARE) program is moving to a new staffing model — with all public health workers.

Anh Nguyen prepares to administer a COVID-19 vaccine for Kelly Vazquez at a pharmacy in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo / Mary Conlon)

Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and COVID-19 vaccines – and a lot of older adults also need protection against another risky winter virus, RSV.

FILE - A sign stands outside the Federal Trade Commission building, Jan. 28, 2015, in Washington. (Alex Brandon / AP Photo, File)
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Three companies that process about 80% of prescriptions in the United States — Caremark, Express Scripts and OptumRx — have engaged in anticompetitive practices that spur price increases, the FTC is alleging in a new lawsuit.

Fatal overdoses in the US have dropped 10% in the past year, according to the latest data from the CDC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images / File via CNN Newsource)

There were about 101,000 overdose deaths in the year ending in April, CDC estimates. There are still far more lives being lost now than before the pandemic – in 2019, there were about 72,000 fatal overdoses – but the latest data shows that deaths dropped a marked 10% in one year and are the lowest they’ve been since the spring of 2021.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., center, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, left, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., right, speaks about the need to protect rights to in vitro fertilization (IVF), on the Senate steps at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo / Ben Curtis)

The Senate vote was Democrats’ latest attempt to force Republicans into a defensive stance on women’s health issues and highlight policy differences between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in the presidential race, especially as Trump has called himself a “ leader on IVF.”

Elected officials, community members and partners gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony for Sankofa Wellness Center in West Garfield Park on September 16, 2024. (Eunice Alpasan / WTTW News)

Elected officials, community members and partners gathered Monday morning for a groundbreaking ceremony for Sankofa Wellness Center, at the corner of West Madison Street and South Kildare Avenue.

The CDC recommends that everyone ages 6 months and older get both a COVID-19 and flu shot this season. (Catherine Falls Commercial / Moment RF / Getty Images via CNN Newsource)

Last year was the first year that the U.S. had vaccines available to protect against all three major respiratory viruses — COVID-19, flu and RSV — but vaccine uptake was low for the season. Here is what you need to know this year. 

Sunglasses are pictured in a file photo. (fadfebrian / iStock)

The best weapon to protect your eyes from the sun? Sunglasses. While many sunglasses promise “100% UV protection,” WTTW News was dubious. We wanted to put them to the test.

An infant and audience member sit in the crowd of a news conference in Chicago’s Fulton Market District neighborhood. Gov. JB Pritzker signed House Bill 5142 into law, with the hope of lowering infant and maternal mortality rates across the state. (Capitol News Illinois photo by Dilpreet Raju)

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black women are two-and-a-half times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than White women. A new state law aims to remedy that by expanding insurance coverage during and after pregnancy. 

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton speaks at a bill signing ceremony for three measures aimed at protecting access to reproductive health care in Illinois on Aug. 7, 2024. (Credit: Illinois.gov)

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed multiple bills expanding reproductive rights in Illinois on Wednesday, including codifying a federal law that allows medical professionals to perform an abortion in response to a clinical emergency.