Karisa King

Tribune reporters presented pharmacies with prescriptions for drugs that are known to be harmful or even fatal if taken together, but 52 percent of the time the prescriptions were filled without warning.

Pharmacies miss half of dangerous drug combinations

June 14, 2024 at 6:47 p.m.

The Tribune reporter walked into an Evanston CVS pharmacy carrying two prescriptions: one for a common antibiotic, the other for a popular anti-cholesterol drug. Taken alone, these two drugs, clarithromycin...

Ben Dortch cooks chicken for a family barbecue at Douglas Park on July 4, 2016, in Chicago.

North Lawndale families, living in shadow of violence, observe holiday carefully

May 23, 2019 at 3:07 a.m.

From her spot near the barbecue grill, halfway between her family's home and the playground at Douglas Park, Keesha Lee kept one eye on the street and the other on...

Individual cells are treated with the drugs ceftriaxone and lansoprazole to see if the combination would block an electrical channel crucial to the heart, during testing at a research lab at Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

Big data offers new way to find hidden drug interactions

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

The experiment began with thousands of patient files, millions of prescription orders, billions of clinical measurements and a single question: Could big data be used to discover deadly drug combinations?...

Becki Conway, whose vision was permanently damaged by Stevens-Johnson syndrome, waits for a consultation with a specialist at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Naples, Fla. She is now blind in one eye and legally blind in the other.

Mix of medications leaves woman fighting for life

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

The first symptoms mimicked the flu. Becki Conway had a sore throat, a dry cough and irritated sinuses. But the next signs were more puzzling. A sharp pain radiated through...

The Uptown office where Dr. Michael Reinstein worked.

Illinois suspends license of controversial psychiatrist

June 14, 2024 at 6:46 p.m.

For years, Dr. Michael Reinstein was a prolific prescriber of a dangerous antipsychotic drug in nursing homes and mental health facilities, giving it to more than 50 percent of the...

U. of I. issues critical report on controversial doctors’ ad

May 21, 2019 at 11:52 a.m.

The University of Illinois needs to clarify rules, improve training and strengthen the way it polices employees' potential conflicts of interest, a top administrator said in a report released Tuesday....

U. of I. issues critical report on controversial doctors’ ad

August 25, 2021 at 3:03 a.m.

U. of I. doctors under scrutiny for surgical robot ad

June 17, 2018 at 9:19 p.m.

When the makers of the da Vinci surgical robot asked University of Illinois doctors to appear in a national advertising campaign, their Chicago hospital saw an opportunity to promote its...

An advertisement for the da Vinci robotic surgery system features University of Illinois hospital employees.

U. of I. doctors under scrutiny for surgical robot ad

November 4, 2021 at 1:08 a.m.

When the makers of the da Vinci surgical robot asked University of Illinois doctors to appear in a national advertising campaign, their Chicago hospital saw an opportunity to promote its...

U. of I. doctors under scrutiny for surgical robot ad

December 23, 2018 at 9:56 p.m.

When the makers of the da Vinci surgical robot asked University of Illinois doctors to appear in a national advertising campaign, their Chicago hospital saw an opportunity to promote its...

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