Judith Graham

When Tammy Duckworth toured Hines VA Hospital in Maywood in late 2005, she had no desire to return. At the prosthetics laboratory, staff asked to touch the state-of-the-art artificial legs...

Cook County's health bureau could lose an enormous amount of money from Medicaid--its single largest revenue source--if it closes 14 of its 26 medical clinics, the governor's health-care adviser warned...

For almost a dozen years, conventional wisdom has dictated that far-reaching, national health-care reform wasn't possible in this country. But political winds are blowing in a strong new direction. Now,...

So, your poodle is pudgy or your beagle is bulging around the midsection, just like you. Worry not. A new medical aid might help--the first medication for fat dogs, approved...

Hundreds of thousands of low-wage workers in Illinois are enrolled in public health programs, adding hundreds of millions of dollars in medical costs to the state budget, according to a...

Two days before the launch of Gov. Rod Blagojevich's signature health-care plan, All Kids, medical groups are voicing serious concerns about the program's viability and physicians' interest in participating. "We...

Illinois is nearly $1.5 billion behind on payments to doctors, pharmacies, hospitals and other medical providers, causing experts to wonder how the state can launch a major new insurance program...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration quickly pulled the plug Thursday on plans to cut the medication given to psychiatric patients after questions were raised about the plan's potential impact. After defending...

Physician-assisted suicide was a red-hot issue in bioethics the mid-1990s, when Oregon became the first state in the nation to legalize the controversial practice. Today it doesn't command the same...

A new Maryland law requiring Wal-Mart Stores to spend more on employee health care sent shudders Friday through the business community while emboldening labor's campaign to enact similar measures in...