New Illinois public health laws started Jan. 1: overdose reporting, prenatal syphilis tests, campus contraception; aid-in-dying starts in Sept.

Across Illinois, health care access is increasingly undermined by immigration enforcement policies that remove workers from ...

With respiratory illnesses on the rise, it's important to practice precautions to keep yourself and your loved ones healthy ...

Cole said red lesions on the palms of hands, soles of feet, or in the mouth are characteristic of the disease. They look like ...

Gynecologists long viewed bacterial vaginosis as solely a women’s issue — until a study that treated their male partners, too ...

Memorial Health limits visitors to two healthy adults at five Illinois hospitals as COVID-19, flu and RSV cases rise ...

As respiratory illness season continues, hospitals across Central Illinois are implementing new visitors’ guidelines as precautions. The entire HSHS system in both Illinois and Wisconsin announced it ...

A school district in the south suburbs is moving to an e-learning day on Friday due to a widespread illness. The Troy Community Consolidated School District 30-C announced the decision to keep ...

Norovirus outbreaks have been reported in Illinois and across the nation this season, and the group of related viruses can cause gastrointestinal illness, including vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal ...

It's the holiday season, which means it's the most common time of year for norovirus to spread. Here's what you need to know about this winter stomach bug.

Gov. JB Pritzker has signed the "Medical Aid in Dying" bill, legalizing physician-assisted death in Illinois, his office announced Friday. The legislation allows certain terminally ill patients to end ...

The prospect of soaring health care costs could exacerbate Americans’ feelings about affordability, an issue that President Trump has tried to downplay. But Democrats plan to keep the issue front and ...