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Barbara Welch, of Des Plaines, holds up a sign protesting President Donald Trump during a rally at Wabash Avenue and Wacker Drive in Chicago on Feb. 20, 2017.

Protesters rally against Trump on ‘Not My President’ day

May 23, 2019 at 4:06 a.m.

Michelle Brasure recalls little of past Presidents Days, except learning about Washington and Lincoln in grade school. Artist Debby Spertus remembers coloring in stovepipe hats as a kid, but that's...

House bill aims to increase pharmacy safety, draws fire

June 14, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.

Ambitious legislation in the Illinois House would restrict the hours pharmacists can work each day, limit the number of prescriptions they can fill each hour, require break time during their...

New plan aims to protect Illinois pharmacy customers from dangerous drug interactions

June 14, 2024 at 6:45 p.m.

Responding to a Tribune investigation that found drugstores frequently failed to warn customers about potentially dangerous drug interactions, Gov. Bruce Rauner is unveiling a major plan designed to improve public...

Chicago immigration rally has message for Trump: We’re here to stay

August 22, 2019 at 2:43 a.m.

Student Cindy Agustin fears her parents will be deported and she'll never see them again. Nareman Taha worries the government will create a Muslim registry to track people of her...

The sun sets over the Brush Wellman facility, a beryllium plant in Elmore, Ohio, in October 1997.

Beryllium workers get new protections after decades of delay

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

Ending decades of denial and inaction, the federal government on Friday issued a tough new exposure standard for one of the most unusual and deadly occupational risks U.S. workers have...

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday asked state agencies to study ways to improve accountability at pharmacies following a Tribune investigation on local drugstores' high failure rate in advising their customers of bad drug combinations.

Rauner tells agencies to look for solutions on dangerous drug interactions

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

Gov. Bruce Rauner has ordered state agencies to examine how to bolster accountability at drugstores and protect the public's health following a Tribune investigation that found pharmacists failed half of...

Pharmacist Audrey Galal recognized the danger when presented with a pair of prescriptions at the independent Mexicare Pharmacy in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood and did not dispense the drugs.

Pharmacy groups talk reforms after Tribune report on risky drug interactions

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

Citing a Tribune investigation into dangerous drug interactions, the head of the nation's top association of pharmacy regulators is urging states to enact tough laws to require pharmacists to counsel...

After Tribune investigation, Durbin pushes interactive drug protection for consumers

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

In the wake of a Tribune investigation of Chicago-area pharmacies, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is calling for new nationwide policies to protect consumers from dangerous drug combinations. On Thursday, the...

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...

Using a wall he coated with a special whiteboard paint, data scientist Nicholas Tatonetti works through calculations crucial to the algorithms needed to find hidden drug interactions at Columbia University Medical Center in New York on Aug. 20, 2016.

Scientists see progress in identifying deadly drug interactions

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

A new method of mining data shows great promise in identifying dangerous drug interactions that had been overlooked by more traditional approaches, according to a new study in a top...

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