Jean Latz Griffin

Sound engineers have as many words for "loud" as Eskimos have for "snow." The tech is so high that some of the concepts almost defy description in ordinary words. The...

When Roger LaPlant heard allegations that Cardinal Joseph Bernardin had sexually abused a high school student in the late '70s, his reaction was one of empathy. LaPlant, a retired gas...

From the epidemiologists who track death rates to battle-weary emergency room doctors and nurses who patch up wounded children, there is a growing movement to push new legislative, educational and...

On Sept. 4, 1992, Tempo wrote of two Chicago lesbians who are trying to adopt the daughter of one of the women. At that time, the case was pending in...

Faced with a growing array of experimental and alternative treatments for HIV infection and AIDS, even well-informed patients have trouble distinguishing legitimate care from quackery. The lines between experimental and...

Assistant public defender John Carey meets with one of his clients in the Cook County Jail law library; not for research, but for health reasons. The library is larger than...

Children who are constantly exposed to the kind of violence that struck down 7-year-old Dantrell Davis can develop emotional problems similar to those of soldiers in wartime, according to mental...

Let them drink milk-as long as they are more than a year old. That`s the advice pediatricians are giving parents concerned about assertions made this week that childhood`s most common...

Item: Throughout 1991, a 42-year-old man with severe alcohol problems went on and off his tuberculosis medicine so many times that his once-treatable illness developed a resistance to most commonly...

The return of abortions at Cook County Hospital was left unresolved for a second time after anti-abortion groups renewed a legal challenge Tuesday aimed at stopping the use of public...