Jeremy Manier

In human culture, the notion of the idealized mother--the lifegiver, nurturer, protector--is such an icon that when a mother is accused of killing her children, as Marilyn Lemak was on...

One day after health officials alerted the public to a spate of recent deaths involving an aggressive form of strep infection, hundreds of concerned patients flowed into area hospitals and...

Surgeons at a Louisville hospital on Monday completed the first hand transplant operation in the U.S., a milestone greeted with guarded optimism by medical experts who noted that ethical questions...

Chicagoans may quibble for years about how the Blizzard of 1999 stacked up against great snowfalls of years past, but one distinction seems indisputable: This year's onslaught was among the...

The main suspect in the slaying of 11-year-old Ryan Harris might have been off the streets months before the girl's death were it not for inconsistent procedures in the Chicago...

In the fall of 1992, during the rape trial of John Willis, a Chicago police crime laboratory technician took the stand and testified that DNA tests were inconclusive and could...

As details of independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr's report on President Clinton began to sink in Saturday, U.S. Rep. Glenn Poshard (D-Ill.) was among the few Illinois politicians saying he plans...

If the imposing Asian longhorn beetle makes a fitting villain for Ravenswood residents who stand to lose their trees to the beasties, an unassuming park worker from Morton Grove is...

Deaths from AIDS-related illnesses among Chicagoans plummeted by more than half in 1997, sending the total back to 1988 levels, Chicago Health Department officials said Monday. The drop builds on...

As state and regulatory officials continued to investigate the death of 15-year-old Christopher Sercye at Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center, hospital officials gave a more detailed account Tuesday of why emergency...