Hospital Asks Court To Get Elderly Cancer Patient Discharged
Northwestern Memorial Hospital says it's done everything it can for 86-year-old woman but her daughter says her mother isn't strong enough to leave.
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital says it's done everything it can for 86-year-old woman but her daughter says her mother isn't strong enough to leave.
Many American drivers are asleep at the wheel -- literally. That's according to a new AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety study which found drowsy drivers played a role in nearly 17 percent of fatal crashes.
Have you noticed something purple about Chicago's skyline?
The upcoming cuts in Medicare physician payments will be catastrophic for seniors, the president of the nation's largest doctors' group says.
Sen. Dick Durbin on Monday sent letters to the heads of several agencies asking them to review the findings of a recent investigative report which showed that Metra commuters and workers may be exposed to excessively high levels of diesel soot.
A longtime medical care center that has served Chicago's gay and lesbian community for 36 years is hoping to raise $500,000 in 50 days to avoid shutting its doors.
An advocacy group wants a moratorium on the construction of new fast food restaurants in Chicago.
There's a growing trend of pediatricians who make house calls. CBS 2's Mary Kay Kleist reports.
Two top Chicago aldermen have proposed a ban on the sale of alcoholic energy drinks that have come under intense scrutiny lately after nine college students in Washington State were hospitalized after drinking them at an off-campus party.
The University of Chicago Medical Center has received a $5 million grant from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.
Acidic industrial detergent dumped in a sewer drain flowed into stream in South Elgin.
A local doctor discovered that violence can be a powerful trigger for asthma in children.
Gov. Pat Quinn announced Saturday that $1.3 million in "Illinois Jobs Now!" capital funding will be used to expand the Adult Down Syndrome Center at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge.
It doesn't matter if people don't sleep at work, bed bugs can join them at the office.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan joined state attorneys general in California and Oregon Tuesday to announce a $3.3 million dollar settlement with Bayer Healthcare over the company's alleged misleading claims that its One A Day Men's multivitamins reduced the risk of prostate cancer.
