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State offers help in Medicare enrollment
CHICAGO – Illinois officials are announcing free, one-on-one counseling services to help educate Medicare beneficiaries and their caregivers about available insurance options.
The Illinois Department of Insurance’s Senior Health Insurance Program is conducting a series of counseling sessions statewide. The sessions are aimed at helping people with the Medicare open enrollment season, which runs this year from Nov. 15 through Dec. 31.
U. of Ill. to honor
Seymour Hersh
CHAMPAIGN – The University of Illinois is honoring Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh with its annual Illinois Prize Lifetime Achievement in Journalism.
Hersh is a Chicago native and University of Chicago graduate who won the Pulitzer in 1970 after breaking the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
More recently he broke the story about prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
SIU prof gets $1.4M to study pain treatment
SPRINGFIELD – Pharamacology professor Louis Premkumar, an Illinois researcher, has received a million-dollar federal grant to study a potential new treatment for chronic, debilitating pain.
The experimental drug comes from a cactus-like plant and is similar to the active ingredient in hot peppers.
– Wire reports
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