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In this Feb. 18, 2016 photo, medical assistant Loren White pets Minnie, a Labradoodle mix at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

4-legged healers soothe hospital’s stressed-out docs, nurses

May 22, 2019 at 9:34 p.m.

Patients who delay getting treatment and insurers who balk at paying for it are among job stresses that Chicago nurse Ben Gerling faces on a semi-regular basis. So there was...

Earliest breast cancer risky for some women, study suggests

August 18, 2019 at 8:19 p.m.

CHICAGO — New research shows that chances of dying from very early breast cancer are small but the disease is riskier for young women and blacks, the same disparities seen...

Talia Pisano stands in her bed June 11, 2015, at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago.

Kids with cancer get futuristic chance at saving fertility

August 19, 2019 at 3:10 a.m.

Barely 2 years old, Talia Pisano is getting tough treatment at Lurie Children's Hospital for kidney cancer that spread to her brain. She's also getting a chance at having babies...

Hayden Murphy, 13, sits with his diabetes medicine at his home in Plainfield. He's among more than 400 children and adults participating in a U.S. government-funded study of whether experimental insulin capsules can prevent or at least delay Type 1 diabetes.

Could insulin pills prevent diabetes? Study seeks answer

May 21, 2019 at 5:38 p.m.

For nearly a century, insulin has been a life-saving diabetes treatment. Now scientists are testing a tantalizing question — what if pills containing the same medicine that patients inject every...

Dr. Jack Lewis, 80, in his office in Omaha, Neb. He has been practicing internal medicine for half a century. A new report by an American Medical Association council says doctors should decide when a doctor must stop working because of advanced age.

Aging MDs prompt call for competency tests

May 21, 2019 at 5:32 p.m.

With one out of four U.S. doctors older than 65, the American Medical Association adopted a plan Monday to help decide when it's time for aging physicians to hang up...

Nicole Gross uses an oral syringe to give her son Chase his daily dose of a medical marijuana oil, known as Charlotte's Web, at their home in Colorado Springs, Colo. They moved to Colorado from Chicago about a year ago to legally treat Chase, who used to have hundreds of seizures per day.

Pediatricians group cautions about medical pot for sick kids

May 22, 2019 at 7:10 p.m.

With virtually no hard proof that medical marijuana benefits sick children, and evidence that it may harm developing brains, the drug should only be used for severely ill kids who...

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