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Chicago-area Latinos cheer election of pope from Argentina

August 24, 2021 at 12:54 a.m.

Many from Chicago's large Latin American community cheered the selection of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as the Roman Catholic Church's new pope, though the joy stemmed from more than simple...

Double mastectomy: A pre-emptive strike against breast cancer

August 19, 2019 at 2:13 a.m.

At age 23, Lindsay Avner took charge of her genetic fate by electing to have her healthy breasts removed before cancer could strike first. Six years later, the North Side...

Double mastectomy: A pre-emptive strike against breast cancer

May 13, 2019 at 11:27 p.m.

At age 23, Lindsay Avner took charge of her genetic fate by electing to have her healthy breasts removed before cancer could strike first. Six years later, the North Side...

Machine cleans away bad cholesterol from body

December 24, 2018 at 12:20 a.m.

For some people, no matter how often they push themselves away from the table, work out religiously or take medications, their cholesterol numbers still zoom off the charts. For that...

Pets get visiting hours at hospital

June 18, 2018 at 7:58 p.m.

Anyone who has felt a connection with a pet understands why Bernadette Slesinski-Evans needed her faithful dachshund with her in the hospital. But for seriously ill patients such as Slesinski-Evans,...

Pets get visiting hours at hospital

May 13, 2019 at 11:18 p.m.

Anyone who has felt a connection with a pet understands why Bernadette Slesinski-Evans needed her faithful dachshund with her in the hospital. But for seriously ill patients such as Slesinski-Evans,...

Ask the Expert: What is hyperbaric oxygen therapy?

December 24, 2018 at 12:06 a.m.

Oxygen can breathe new life into tissue. That's the principle behind hyperbaric oxygen therapy, a technique that has been around for decades, most notably for wound care. To learn more,...

Hepatitis C progress in pipeline

August 19, 2019 at 2:10 a.m.

A diagnosis of hepatitis C — a stubborn virus that is a common cause of chronic liver disease — can be devastating. In 2007, it passed HIV/AIDS in annual deaths,...

Hepatitis C progress in pipeline

May 13, 2019 at 10:58 p.m.

A diagnosis of hepatitis C — a stubborn virus that is a common cause of chronic liver disease — can be devastating. In 2007, it passed HIV/AIDS in annual deaths,...

Jacob Mosbacher, 25, is excited to show his mom, Joan Katz, his new home last month as he and other residents of the Libenu home check out the special-needs house in Chicago's West Rogers Park.

Parents create housing alternative for disabled adult children

June 18, 2018 at 8:19 p.m.

Baruch and Joyce Schur were out of options. They couldn't find anywhere for their physically and intellectually disabled 26-year-old son to live, at least nowhere that met their criteria or...

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