Jean Latz Griffin

Chicago police said Tuesday they have sent Milwaukee authorities information on a missing Chicago man who may have been a victim in the unfolding mutilation murder case there. Information on...

It is 2:30 in the morning. The electricity has gone out, your uncle Freddie is either having a heart attack or has eaten one too many super deluxe, heavy-on-everything pizzas,...

Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday appointed a Roman Catholic nun as the city`s health commissioner. Sister Sheila Lyne, a member of the Religious Sisters of Mercy, has been deputy health...

If war starts in the Middle East and Congress reinstitutes the draft, Matthew Drew is sure he won`t be going. Drew, 18, already is collecting evidence to prove that he...

Lakeside Community Hospital employees had a payless payday Friday because the facility where their paychecks are processed, Leyden Community Hospital in Northlake, was closed and locked by city officials. Leyden...

A new federal law aimed at cracking down on so-called ''Medicaid mills'' will require more regulation of doctors who receive Medicaid payments for treating pregnant women and children up to...

Illinois is ''one of the stingiest states'' in the amount it spends per capita on mental health programs, according to a report released Tuesday by two national advocacy groups. While...

AIDS educators in the Chicago area say the controversial AIDS poster that appeared on Chicago Transit Authority buses and stations this week is not specific enough to teach anyone how...

Ruth Terry`s painful odyssey through Chicago`s public health system began about 2 a.m. one night last October when labor contractions awakened her in her South Side home. Her previous child...

Less than a week before the Chicago and Cook County Health Care Summit is to begin deliberations on a draft report that would restructure health care for the poor in...