Farmers at Kakadoodle, a family chicken farm in south suburban Matteson, were in its coops on a recent Sunday because a water pipe had frozen when they discovered about 30 dead birds.
Members of the family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion in a new settlement to lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday.
A day after President Donald Trump threw out policies that limited immigration arrests at sensitive locations, such as churches, schools and hospitals, a ripple of fear spread across the undocumented community who were stripped of protection in places they once felt safest.
Citing a “financial shortfall,” Planned Parenthood of Illinois announced Wednesday – on the 52nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade – that it will be closing four clinics across the state, including one on Chicago’s South Side. The health center shutdowns come as Illinois is already grappling with a surge in patients traveling here from other […]
The Trump administration has put a freeze on many federal health agency communications with the public through at least the end of the month.
Downward ‘possum might not be a traditional yoga pose but Shadow, Twig and Flapjack are trying to change that.
On Jan. 21, 2020, the U.S. reported its first known case of the 2019 novel coronavirus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who had returned the previous week from the outbreak’s epicenter was hospitalized near Seattle.
Cecile Richards, a national leader for abortion access and women’s rights who led Planned Parenthood for 12 tumultuous years, has died. She was 67.
Flossmoor resident and cancer survivor Ann Jackson launched the Center for Food Equity in Medicine at Flossmoor Community Church.
The U.S. Justice Department is accusing Walgreens of filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade and more without a legitimate purpose, including for dangerous amounts of opioids, according to a lawsuit filed this week.