Award Winning Health Journalism

Our Top 10 Stories of 2024

  One of the best things about the new year is reviewing our most-read articles from the previous year. This exercise gives us an opportunity to find out what our readers most wanted to read, to remind ourselves of the health events that unfolded, and to review our breadth of coverage and our writers’ talents. […]

Visionary Ophthalmologist

Ophthalmologists volunteer their services to provide eye care to patients in Guatemala. Courtesy of Loyola Medicine

Eye doctor and team from Loyola Medicine improve people’s sight in rural Guatemala Fact checked by Shannon Sparks   Before a recent trip to Guatemala, Charles Bouchard, MD, current chair of Loyola Medicine’s ophthalmology department, went shopping. He went to a Dollar Tree store with a $300 donation from a patient and a purpose. “I […]

Male Friendship

Two men in deep conversation showing the importance of male friendship and socialization

Men often avoid developing deep friendships, but the benefits are clear   Fact checked by Derick Wilder   When Milan Bagel lost his wife of 55 years, he didn’t have any male friends to confide in about how lonely he felt without her. That was five years ago. More recently when Bagel, who is now 87, […]