In winter, low humidity outdoors combined with dry indoor heat robs skin of moisture. CBS 2's Mary Kay Kleist offers some tips to...
Northwestern University researchers say a new study suggests that parents should give their children music lessons.
Next month, more than 4,000 people will climb 94 floors all the way to the top of the John Hancock Center to raise money for...
Students in Chicago's Public Schools are eating healthier – if they're eating what's served at school. But some lunchroom...
U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) is expressing extreme disappointment with the decision by the Susan G. Komen Foundation to stop funding cancer screening provided by Planned Parenthood.
Doctors say many women don’t see a heart attack coming because they have different symptoms than men, and even emergency room physicians can be slow to reach a diagnosis.
February is American Heart Month — an attempt to focus the nation’s attention on heart disease.
They say laughter is the best medicine, and a Chicago father-son duo is really put that old adage to the test.
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) is described as alert and responsive after another operation to relieve swelling in his brain, after he suffered a stroke last weekend.
The Chicago Board of Education is considering a new plan to make sure that teachers are ready to help the thousands of kids with asthma in public schools.
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is moving ahead with its plans for a new hospital on the site of the old CBS Building, according to a published report.
Gov. Pat Quinn is defending his administration’s plan to move people out of state institutions for the mentally and physically disabled and into community care settings.
The number of abortions performed in Illinois fell to a 37-year low in 2010.
The Chicago Public Schools plan to begin keeping medication on hand to treat allergic reactions that could prove deadly to students.
