Chicago Teen Donates Kidney To Stranger To Save Mom
A Chicago teen who was unable to give his mother a kidney is giving one to a stranger, so that his mother can get a transplant from another donor.
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A Chicago teen who was unable to give his mother a kidney is giving one to a stranger, so that his mother can get a transplant from another donor.
More and more frustrated parents are turning to the readily available supplement. CBS 2's Mary Kay Kleist reports.
Although only a few hundred middle-class Illinois residents were able to sign up for health insurance last month on the crippled federal HealthCare.gov website, the poor appear to be having an easier time enrolling in an expansion of Medicaid — and are doing so by the thousands.
The decision to absorb a $300,000 state funding cut and bankroll a $200,000 expansion at nearly-shuttered Roseland Community Hospital is aimed at saving lives through early diagnosis.
The FDA wants to ban an ingredient in some of your favorite foods, such as microwave popcorn. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports on what this might mean to the taste -- and healthiness -- of what you eat.
Chicago's health commissioner told aldermen Tuesday that a 75-cent-per-pack cigarette tax hike would be a life-saver, as he made the case for the Emanuel administration's budget plan.
A pest control company determined Hadley Junior High School has "a light case of bed bugs" and treated the areas where bed bugs were observed.
Experts say most people have no idea what they are getting themselves into when it comes to keeping their information private. CBS 2's Rob Johnson reports.
CBS 2's Pam Zekman looks at the salt content of a common brand of soup, which gets the endorsement of the American Heart Association.
Dr. Steven Rosen has been director of Northwestern's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center for 24 years.
Many of our neighborhoods will be filled with trick-or-treaters on Thursday and at about the same time the phones at the state's poison control center will start ringing off the hook.
Hundreds of Chicago moms are taking their concerns about concussions to the commissioner of the NFL at the home of the Bears.
It's an unexpected side effect of the Affordable Care Act. Like it or not, you could lose your current health insurance plan.
Frank Velez was ready to transport a patient when two men across the street began "yelling at the ambulance with profanity," he tells CBS 2's Mai Martinez.
The shuttering of a southern Illinois center for the developmentally disabled has been postponed due to a pending court case.
