Health Care

A Northwestern Medicine cardiologist explains the warning signs of heart attacks in women and shares tips for monitoring key health numbers to protect cardiovascular health.

The parents of Amelia Myers share how their daughter’s fight with a rare genetic disease led Illinois to become the first state to screen newborns for it—and how her legacy is saving lives even after her passing.

A Chicago doctor is using new FDA-approved technology that makes cancer cells glow during surgery.

Health care costs top Americans’ economic worries and are expected to play a major role in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new KFF Health poll.  

Doctors in Chicago are testing immersive technology as part of a new clinical trial that could change how colon cancer is detected—and potentially expand to hospitals nationwide.

Dr. Thomas Shanley, president and CEO of Lurie Children’s Hospital, joins us to discuss plans for a new Downers Grove facility, what services it will offer families, why the western suburbs were chosen, and what’s next for the hospital’s continued growth.

An infectious disease expert explains what the Nipah virus is, how it spreads, the symptoms to watch for, and whether this emerging outbreak poses any real risk to the U.S.

Lurie Children’s Hospital is beginning plans on a new pediatric hospital in the Downers Grove area. This facility would be the first inpatient hospital outside of downtown Chicago. 

More than 400,000 people experience sexual violence in the U.S. each year, but many survivors face delays or are turned away from emergency rooms that lack specially trained nurses. A Unit 32 special report examines the nationwide shortage of Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners, the impact on survivors, and how new Illinois laws aim to improve access to timely, trauma-informed care.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a new law allowing the Illinois Department of Public Health to create its own childhood vaccine guidelines following changes at the federal level. At the same time, the American Academy of Pediatrics released alternative recommendations. Dr. Marielle J. Fricchione of Rush University Medical Center joins us to explain what has changed. 

An Illinois-based pediatric group charts its own vaccine recommendations as federal guidance shifts, and a Lurie Children’s expert explains what this means for parents navigating the changes.

 Illinois public health officials say parents should continue following established childhood immunizations schedules, even as federal officials revise how they are recommended nationally.