Jeremy Manier

Marking a victory for abortion rights supporters after more than a decade of political controversy and delays, the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the abortion pill known as...

A Chicago minister filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday against Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and three blood bank organizations, alleging that they failed to inform him and other blood transfusion...

The death of a 13-year-old Faraday Elementary School student who collapsed in a school hallway earlier this week was not linked to the recent spate of hot weather, the Cook...

Inspectors could take six months or longer to check 200,000 suburban homes for mercury contamination, Nicor officials said Wednesday, an estimate that drew protests from residents and state officials who...

A century after scientists first thought they saw canals on Mars, astronomers on Thursday released detailed photographs showing dozens of gullies and channels where water may indeed still be flowing...

State health officials have launched an investigation of how someone was able to kidnap a baby boy from the nursery at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. Even within the...

A 4-pound infant snatched from a hospital nursery was still alive when his abductor stuffed the boy under a pile of clothes to hide him from police who had come...

Alarms rang when 4-pound, 13-day-old Zquan Wakefield was smuggled out of the nursery at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, setting in motion the security and police apparatus that was...

Wading into an issue that raises life-and-death choices in the starkest terms, the House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to reverse a Clinton administration decision to award human organs available for transplant...

Mayor Richard Daley's two-day stay in the hospital ended Monday after doctors said he passed important tests with flying colors. The mayor has no blockages of coronary arteries, his blood...