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May is Lupus Awareness Month. And if you are not familiar with lupus, that is partly the point. Lupus is one of the most common chronic autoimmune diseases in the world, and one of the least understood. It affects an estimated 1.5 million Americans, causes the immune system to attack the body's own healthy tissue, and can damage virtually every organ system from the kidneys to the heart to the brain. It has no known cure. Its symptoms: fatigue, joint pain, inflammation, and o

INTRODUCTION There is a moment that happens for a lot of athletes, sometimes after an injury, sometimes after a diagnosis, sometimes after hitting a wall that no amount of training could have prepared them for, where everything shifts. The focus stops being entirely about performance and starts being about something bigger. About telling the truth. About making sure the next person does not have to figure it out alone. That moment is becoming more common. And the athletes who

INTRODUCTION When we talk about what it takes to compete at the highest level, we talk about talent. We talk about work ethic, coaching, genetics, and opportunity. What we rarely talk about is what it takes to do all of that while your own body is working against you every single day. For athletes living with chronic illness: Crohn's disease, lupus, type 1 diabetes, ulcerative colitis, and others, that is not a hypothetical. It is Tuesday morning. It is game day. It is every

THE 2025 SEASON Going into the 2025 season, Mendoza was ranked 24th in Heisman Trophy odds. A two-star recruit from nowhere, on a program that had not won the Big Ten since 1967, playing for a fanbase that had spent decades dreaming of relevance. What followed was one of the most complete quarterback seasons in recent college football history. Mendoza threw for 2,980 yards and a national-best 33 touchdown passes while adding six rushing scores. He led Indiana to a perfect 13-

There’s a surgeon in Chicago who has been performing Tommy John surgeries for decades. For most of his career, his patients were Major League pitchers, grown men with full big-league mileage on their arms. That changed. “Ten years ago, Tommy John surgery was a treatment for Major League Baseball players,” says Dr. Mark Cohen, hand, wrist, and elbow surgeon at Midwest Orthopedics at RUSH and an official physician for the Chicago White Sox. “I’m worried that the majority of pat

Baseball is a game of moments. Some moments define a career in the best way possible: a walk-off home run, a perfect game, a World Series ring. But some moments define a career for all the wrong reasons, and there is nothing a player can do to change it. For Ruben Tejada, that moment came in three seconds on an October night in 2015, and the effects lasted far longer than any box score will ever show. Game 2 of the NLDS, seventh inning. Chase Utley slides hard into second bas

High blood pressure affects young athletes and retired professionals alike. Learn why hypertension screening matters, which athletes are at risk, and how prevention protects heart health.

Learn why heart health screenings matter for athletes and active individuals. Explore blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose testing, and AHA screening guidelines to stay healthy and in the game for life.