Sue Ellen Christian

The Cook County medical examiner's office is calling the death of a terminally ill man last week in a south suburban hospital a "euthanization" and has ruled his death a...

An 18-year-old African-American college freshman from Chicago has decided to return to Kalamazoo College, a small liberal arts school in Michigan, where earlier this week he was the alleged victim...

For those facing chronic or potentially terminal illnesses, the choices for treatment can be as confusing as they are daunting: Switch doctors? Change hospitals? Increase a drug dosage? Opt for...

As is increasingly the case, there were no mass protests or demonstrations outside Chicago-area abortion clinics on Tuesday, but the relative quiet at their entrances belies the increasing levels of...

Grass-roots activists reacted with dismay to Monday's verdict against anti-abortion groups, saying it threatens time-honored tactics in the fight for social change. While the federal jury levied an $86,000 judgment...

In May 1997, David Jones was taken from his mother because the woman and her boyfriend threw the youngster against a wall and stomped on his small body, child welfare...

After a year's worth of pilot programs, policy changes and new laws, the number of Illinois children in foster care recently reversed course and fell below 50,000--a landmark figure that...

As politicians and public health advocates on Monday touted an additional $20 million in federal funds to reduce infant mortality rates in the Chicago area over the next four years,...

Jacque Shannon-McNulty wanted her first child to be born into a world that was familiar and full of family instead of foreign and cluttered with strangers. The 24-year-old mother-to-be, who...

For generations, America's medical schools have largely been bastions of prestige, challenge, opportunity and idealism. Getting in to med school was one of the elite goals of modern academia, and...