Teenage Cancer Patients Face Emotional Decision On Fertility
At an age when most teenage girls are concerned with pop music, makeup and boys, some have to make an emotional decision: Whether to preserve their chance to have children.
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At an age when most teenage girls are concerned with pop music, makeup and boys, some have to make an emotional decision: Whether to preserve their chance to have children.
"We found that eye contact was really important for perceptions of empathy, so physicians that made more eye contact with their patients tended to be rated as more likable and empathetic," said assistant professor Enid Montague.
Concern about the potentially-deadly street drug known as "Krokodil" has spread to the far northwest suburbs.
A family that has spent years shooting heroin together is now suffering together, after apparently injecting a flesh-eating street drug known as krokodil.
Good Intentions has been flooded with 20,000 calls in just a couple of months.
Lifeway Foods calls it the champagne of milks: a yogurt-like drink full of calcium and protein called kefir. CBS 2's Rob Johnson reports.
A group of female Chicago aldermen, health care workers, and breast cancer survivors launched a campaign Thursday, to urge the Chicago Department of Public Health to halt plans to close the program that provides mammograms to thousands of women every year.
A street drug has hit the streets of suburban Chicago. It can cause deadly gangrene infections just days after it's used. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
With the shutdown dragging into its second week, money to pay healthcare workers at the James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in North Chicago ran out last weekend, but employees are still on the job.
Skyrocketing overdoses of a drug called Molly have law enforcement concerned. CBS 2's Dave Savini investigates Molly also known as MDMA.
The head of a Chicago mosquito control group says it's expanding efforts to buy mosquito nets which have already helped stop a terrible tropical disease in two states in Nigeria. WBBM's John Cody has more.
City Colleges of Chicago broke ground Wednesday on a new $251 million campus for Malcolm X College, which also serve as a hub for the system's healthcare programs.
Family members of the woman behind the wheel of the car in Washington D.C. yesterday say Miriam Carey experienced post-partum depression-- but one expert says there may be more going on.
The website where millions of Americans can shop for insurance goes live on Tuesday Oct. 1. Applying is kind of like shopping for a flight on an airline website. CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports.
CBS 2's Rob Johnson talks with one family that fought for years so that their daughter could take care of her diabetes and stay in the classroom.
