2017

Kendall-Grundy Community Action Services, a division of the Kendall County Health Department has funds available for the Low Income Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). The mission of LIHEAP is assist low income households in meeting their immediate home energy needs by paying partial cold weather energy bills to prevent service interruptions. During the past 12 months, […]

By: NIH News in HealthSit up straight! This common request may have been how you first heard about posture, the way you hold your body. Posture isn’t just about how you look. How you position yourself can help or hurt your health over your lifetime.“Posture is not only about how well you sit, but how […]

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is recognizing August as National Immunization Awareness Month as a reminder that vaccines protect against a number of serious and potentially life-threatening diseases. Vaccines give parents the safe, proven power to protect their children from serious diseases like measles and whooping cough (pertussis).“Most young parents in […]

In accordance with new guidance released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) July 25, 2017, the IDPH is updating laboratory testing recommendations for pregnant women with a possible Zika virus exposure.Learn more…

Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids were five times higher in 2016 than 1999, and sales of these prescription drugs have quadrupled. From 1999 to 2016, more than 200,000 people have died in the U.S. from overdoses related to prescription opioidsOpioid prescribing continues to fuel the epidemic. Today, 40% of all U.S. opioid overdose deaths involve […]

Welcome to the fifth issue of the Illinois Morbidity and Mortality Bulletin (IMMB), an IDPH publication created to present topics of interest to public health communities and professionals in Illinois through scientific analysis and interpretation of data.In this issue, Heidi Clark and John Tharp use data from Illinois death records to examine the specific substances […]

Ozone is a gas composed of three atoms of oxygen (O3). Ozone occurs both in the Earth’s upper atmosphere and at ground level. Ozone can be good or bad, depending on where it is found.Ozone in the air we breathe can harm our health. People most at risk from breathing air containing ozone include people […]

Do you have an old printer, cell phone, computer monitor or other electronic device that you want to get rid of?On Saturday, August 5, 2017, from 8:00am to 12:00pm, the Kendall County Health Department will be hosting a free residential electronic waste collection event for Kendall County residents only at the Kendall County Government complex […]