Bob Condor

Whenever Jack Shea walks into a room, good stories are sure to follow. Here is one the local theologian told at a Spirituality and Health Care conference this month, held...

In the November/December issue of Natural Health magazine, the editors have put together a health quiz about chocolate. No kidding. Chocolate is not all bad and can actually do some...

That there is such an event as the Cranberry Health Research Roundtable might surprise you, especially if you are one of those people who pass on the cranberry sauce at...

The truck turning in front of Schaumburg's newest health club has one of those WIDE LOAD signs on its tail. Appropriate enough, because the Life Time Fitness club is a...

Forget stereotypes about waiting for the two coasts to set trends for the rest of America. The Midwest is now home to two of four government-funded national centers for the...

Americans need more research studies like this one. And if you don't think so, that just proves my point. In the latest issue of a professional journal, Psychosomatic Medicine, researchers...

Dr. Martin J. Sullivan, who grew up in Chicago, has been instrumental in starting an integrative medicine curriculum at Duke University's medical school in Durham, N.C. He says acupuncture, herbs...

Dr. Susan Love has a ready answer when asked whether breast cancer gets too much media attention or government funding compared to lung cancer, which kills more American women each...

With master's degrees in mechanical engineering and plant pathology, you wouldn't expect Jim Gregory to be riding a messenger bike for a living. But in fact, his advanced education might...

If you have taken a yoga class at a health club or community center, chances are it has been hatha yoga. It is a once-obscure form of yoga that is...