Judy Peres

Chicago's First Lady Maggie Daley underwent breast cancer surgery Thursday, and her doctor said she was coping "extremely well" with an advanced form of the disease. Daley walked out of...

Abortion opponents are heading to Capitol Hill Wednesday, charging that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is endangering women's health by not pulling RU-486 after the deaths of at least...

Newborns would be tested for HIV if there is uncertainty about the mother being infected, under legislation the Senate sent to the governor Tuesday. The action unfolded in a busy...

For 20 years, Joseph Scheidler has insisted that he and his fellow believers acted peaceably when they blockaded abortion clinics around the country. On Tuesday the tireless zealot won a...

The refusal of medical professionals to take part in the scheduled execution of a convicted killer in California this week has reopened the debate over whether lethal injection is a...

Why do some smokers get lung cancer while others don't? Why are there more women than men among lung cancer patients who never smoked? Why do some patients do better...

The Illinois General Assembly is considering legislation that would force hospitals to determine the HIV status of every newborn baby with or without the mother's consent, setting off alarms among...

The number of women diagnosed with breast cancer--a number that has been rising steadily for a quarter-century--has nearly leveled off, according to new figures released Thursday by the American Cancer...

Although health officials were preparing for outbreaks of deadly diseases in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that no epidemics had...

In the latest salvo in the battle over the morning-after pill, a nurse sued a state university Wednesday, saying the school denied her a full-time job because she wouldn't dispense...