Patty Pensa

Residents of five Illinois townships can save an average of 45 percent on their prescription drugs through a new arrangement that also pays participating governments. Niles, Northfield, Warren, Waukegan and...

Some 30,000 Chicago Public Schools students will learn about eye health in a pilot program aimed to get children and their parents to take vision more seriously. Prevent Blindness America,...

It is not unusual for patients to ask Dr. Karen Wu if she is strong enough to perform surgery. "It always seems to be in a half-joking kind of way....

The signs began a year before Rick Daugherty learned he had Alzheimer's disease at age 55. He couldn't understand a new ordering system at his job as a grocery store...

As Chicagoans ride their bikes to work, the grocery store or just for fun, having more dedicated lanes across the city means a happier coexistence between bicyclists and motorists, bicycle...

Esperanza Garcia, 29, gave up fried foods, cut back on red meat and stopped picking up fast food. Instead, the single mother of three builds her family's meals around vegetables,...

When Adrienne and Tracey Fleming learned that their 3-year-old twins had obstructive sleep apnea, they scheduled the boys to have their tonsils removed. "When they were infants, I would often...