Cindy Schreuder

In the wake of warnings by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that a commonly prescribed combination of diet pills could be linked to serious heart valve problems, doctors here...

Last August, NASA scientists held up photos of a pockmarked, potato-size rock and said that, at last, they had found evidence that life once had existed on Mars. It seized...

In 1930, most African animals were still exotic creatures from a little-known land. When an orphaned infant gorilla named Bushman arrived at Lincoln Park Zoo on this date, he quickly...

Social pundits these days trot out television as a scapegoat for any number of the nation's ills, ranging from increases in domestic violence to the coarsening of the culture. But...

From his hospital bed on Friday, Lenard Clark opened his eyes when his mother called his name. She asked him to swallow, and she thinks that he did. She talked...

For years, emergency room physicians knew something police suspected but couldn't prove: Many people treated for injuries suffered in car accidents were legally drunk. Blood and urine tests sometimes run...

The exterior of the squat beige building just over the Illinois line in Hobart, Ind., resembles a thousand other nondescript offices dotting the Midwest. But inside, going about their business,...

Feet dangle from the light blue ceiling: duck feet, children's feet, clown feet. Muted shades of sand and blue carpeting cover the floor. Tall, transparent pillars around the nurses' station...

In a radical departure from the way experimental drugs and medical products are usually studied, Cook County Hospital is poised to begin testing a substitute for human blood on trauma...

Jamie Podgorny weighs 2 pounds 8 1/2 ounces--small enough to fit in one of her father's hands yet big enough to go home from the hospital. On Wednesday, the infant...