Chicago's early warm weather may bring more risks than unanticipated sunburns and allergy attacks. According to the Illinois Department of Public Heal...

In many ways, Nice Cream is the quintessential small-business success story. Laid off from her job with the Chicago Public Schools, Kris Swanberg deci...

Following an order issued last week by a Cook County Circuit Judge, three transgender individuals will soon be granted new birth certificates reflecti...

In the belching, burning wreckage of the Illinois budget, a survivor, miraculously, emerged. Pat Quinn announced today that state funding for the Illinois AIDS Drug Assistance Program would be spared.

With a long-sought 2006 law finally implemented, Illinois banks now will accept the tattooed and pierced donors' blood immediately, LifeSource announc...

It's National STD Awareness Month--and Illinois residents should think about getting tested. According to the the Illinois Department of Public Heal...

Let's hope Governor Quinn can scrape up the commitment and the $9.7 million out of a $25 billion budget to provide HIV/AID drugs to help keep people, your neighbors, alive.

Illinois regulators revoked the license of one Chicago emergency medical technician in 2000 after she repeatedly failed to provide proper care to pati...

The Illinois Dept. of Public Health on Monday is reporting its first recorded human case of the West Nile virus this year....

The media and the public need to take a breath. And it can be safely done -- without the mask.

It's been nearly one year since the statewide smoking ban took effect. How have Chicago businesses been coping? The Department of Public Health has t...

In 1980, black women and white women in Chicago with breast cancer were equally likely to die. Since then, death rates for white patients have improv...

(Crain's) -- The owners of Lincoln Park Hospital didn't follow proper procedures to close the hospital when it shuttered the facility last week, and i...