Are You “Phubbing” Me?
By Gregory J. Skibinski, Executive Director, Agape Counseling Ltd. Picture this: you are sitting at your dinner table and trying to have a conversation when the person you are talking to reaches over and picks up their phone just as you were talking to them. If you can relate to this experience, you have just […]
“Love Withdrawal,” The Game Everyone Loses
By Paul Schellenberg, LLC, MA, LCPC When you try to prove you can live without someone, you are teaching them they can live without you! People play games all the time. Video games, board games, cell phone games, and unfortunately, emotional games. When it comes to relationships, everyone plays a game to a certain degree. […]
Your Eyes, More Than the Windows to Your Soul Part 2
By James Wilson, OD, Bond Eye Associates Now, for you bad boy and girl contact lens patients. You know who you are. Contacts should be considered just as important as adding a drug into your body. They can blind you if they’re not fit correctly or are abused and not worn correctly. Disposable contacts have […]
Seeking the “Holy Grail” of Curing Cancer
By Karen Crowley Metzinger, The GCS Project What goal do two special daughters of Illinois have in common? They desire to find a cure for cancer in their lifetimes. When Peoria native Nancy Goodman Brinker promised her dying sister, Suzy Komen, that she would do her best to eradicate breast cancer, she founded the Susan […]
A Look From the Other Side
Submitted by Lutheran Hillside Village In June, Lutheran Hillside Village will debut SAIDO Learning®. An innovative, non-pharmacological treatment that has been shown to improve the symptoms of memory loss among older adults, SAIDO Learning will be exclusively offered to residents of Lutheran Hillside Village. While staff members anxiously await and are trained on offering SAIDO […]
Your Pet is Lost — What Do You Do?
By Lauren Malmberg, Peoria County Animal Protection Services Pets go missing every day. Dogs and cats alike can wander away from their yard or escape out the front door. The animals often become frightened and disoriented and, when panicked, can run quite some distance. They then find themselves in unfamiliar territory. Sadly, many of these […]
How to Grieve
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Lutheran Hillside Village to Introduce Promising Cognitive Therapy Program for Residents With Alzheimer’s Symptoms
Submitted by Lutheran Hillside Village A program that has slowed the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in older adults during research trials in Japan and the United States will be introduced to memory care residents at Lutheran Hillside Village beginning in June. Called SAIDO Learning, this promising cognitive rehabilitation therapy program is a […]
Printing 3D Hearts to Save Lives and OSF Healthcare Innovation Center Program
We live in a three-dimensional world — a world of height, width, and depth. Our lives do not exist on a two-dimensional plane. Even a child knows holding a three-dimensional object leads to a better understanding of that object — an understanding that cannot be matched by looking at pictures in a book. It is […]
The Future of Medicine Comes to Pekin
Submitted by UnityPoint Health — Pekin Central Illinois high school students with an interest in the medical field have a new opportunity for hands-on education. In January of 2017, UnityPoint Health — Pekin and a group of community partners launched Training Tomorrow’s Physicians Today, a 16-week program related to gross anatomy. The new program is […]