SIU Medicine care provider Fran Owens has been named Illinois' Social Worker of the Year.

SIU Medicine care provider Fran Owens has been named Illinois' Social Worker of the Year.

Specialty care and collaboration is what Lynn needed, and it realized her ideal version of health care: “It's offered here at SIU, and it made all the difference of the world.”

Specialty care and collaboration is what Lynn needed, and it realized her ideal version of health care: “It's offered here at SIU, and it made all the difference of the world.”

The flu can affect everyone differently. For some, it causes a sore throat and runny nose. For others, an achy body and headache. If you start to feel like you’re coming down with the bug, here's some tips to nip it in the bud.

The flu can affect everyone differently. For some, it causes a sore throat and runny nose. For others, an achy body and headache. If you start to feel like you’re coming down with the bug, here's some tips to nip it in the bud.

Our laboratory investigates the fundamental mechanisms linking early-life development to aging, longevity and age-related diseases. Using genetically diverse mouse models and systems genetics approaches, our research addresses a critical question: How do early-life experiences shape lifelong health trajectories? Approach Our laboratory employs a comprehensive systems biology approach, integrating: Large-scale phenotyping across the lifespan Mouse genetics and genetic mapping Molecular and cellular biology Bioinformatics and computational analysis Collaborative multidisciplinary research Impact

Nancy couldn’t relax. As the day wore down, so did her nerves. She kept raising her voice and couldn’t get comfortable. Suggestions by family members of what to do were shot down or ignored. Irritable and disagreeable, it wasn’t until she found her cat, Boots, that she found calmness stroking his golden fur and hearing him purr. Nancy has dementia. Her childhood cat, Boots? He’s been gone for a long time. But thanks to advanced technology that created an animatronic animal to fit her reality, this new "Boots" helped provide Nancy the comfort and company she craved. It’s one instance of how