Deborah L. Shelton

We've all heard about the health risks of secondhand smoke. But thirdhand smoke? Medical experts say there is such a thing, and it's particularly hazardous for children. Thirdhand smoke isn't...

With influenza season beginning Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending for the first time that all children, not just the very young, be vaccinated. School-age children...

Angela O'Connell will not allow her 15-month-old son to be vaccinated against measles, mumps and rubella because she is certain the vaccination caused autism in her older boy, Aidan. "The...

Ira Alter didn't know dogs could even get the flu. But blood tests showed that is what struck his 4-year-old yellow Labrador, Buddy, whom Alter took to the emergency veterinarian...

Pierre Kattar Jr. could not donate a kidney to his father because of incompatibility, so he gave one to Niral Patel, whose mother had wanted to give him a kidney...

Taking a break from her busy job as principal at Brentano Math and Science Academy, Georgette Watson would wander into the preschool room next door to her office. Jumping up...

A costly drug cocktail touted as the first pharmacological treatment for cocaine and methamphetamine addiction is at the center of a raging national debate. The treatment, called Prometa, is not...

As the Cook County Board mulls a tax increase to plug a $300 million budget hole and shore up its clinics and hospitals, a growing number of critics are saying...