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Families with sick children eagerly await Governor Bruce Rauner to sign House Bill 2721 into law, making Illinois the first state in the nation requiring insurers to provide coverage for the treatment of a newly recognized set of childhood post-infectious disorders resulting from brain inflammation. The approved bill has been sent to the governor’s desk. It now awaits his signature. What is our governor waiting for?

A recent hypothesis postulates that obsessive-compulsive disorder and other mental illnesses may result from throat infections by streptococcal bacteria (strep throat); however, data in the literature has been controversial. A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry investigate the risk of mental disorders following strep throat infections and found that individuals with streptococcal infections had an increased risk for mental disorders and OCD.