The last thing John and Danielle Parli were worried about when doctors told them a cancerous tumor was wrapped around their daughter Emma’s kidney, liver and heart was how much it would cost to save their little girl’s life. “My main point…
Five women calling themselves the Sisters in the Fairway, new members of the Grandview Golf Club in York, Penn., were playing the first holes April 21, when they were accused of moving too slowly, and urged to leave and give up their…
An American Academy of Pediatrics study published Monday revealed that the rate of adolescent exposure to ADHD medication reported to U.S. poison control centers increased 71.2 percent from 2000 to 2011, with a 6.2 percent decrease from…
African American children are taking their lives at roughly twice the rate of their white counterparts, according to a new study that shows a widening gap between the two groups. The 2001-2015 data, published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics,…
Cancer is sneaky. It hides. It disguises itself. It stays silent as it grows and invades other tissues. Evading detection, cancer does its deadly work as the window of opportunity to destroy it gradually closes. This year more than 1.7…
In the early days of his presidency, Donald Trump famously declared that “nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated.” At the time, he was talking about health insurance. But perhaps he was also thinking about two potentially life…
Patrick T. Fallon for The Washington Post. Ariana Eunjung ChaThe Washington Post When 26-year-old Rita Ora announced recently that she had frozen her eggs, she joined a long list of celebrities touting the procedure. "I wanted to be safe,"…
Authorities in Saudi Arabia have detained at least five prominent human-rights activists, including women who for years campaigned to win Saudi women the right to drive, according to people with knowledge of the arrests. The detentions…
After more than seven hours of emotional and passionate testimony from hundreds of residents, community activists and elected officials, the Chicago Plan Commission voted overwhelmingly to approve the Obama Presidential Center on Thursday…
A school resource police officer is being lauded as a hero for intervening when a former student at Dixon High School opened fire Wednesday morning near the school gym where students were gathered for a graduation rehearsal, authorities…
A fiery debate erupted on social media this week, prompting many to ask friends, family members, co-workers and themselves this question: “Yanny or Laurel?” The brief, one-word audio recording posted on Twitter and Reddit went viral,…
A sea change is occurring among men with low-risk prostate cancer: Increasing numbers are avoiding immediate surgery or radiation and are opting instead for close monitoring of the disease to see whether it worsens. The shift is sharply…
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday proposed reinstating the death penalty in Illinois for mass killers and people who slay law enforcement officers as part of his rewrite of a gun control bill. The death penalty provision would create…
When it comes to treating anxiety in children and teens, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook are the bane of therapists' work. "With (social media), it's all about the self-image -- who's 'liking' them, who's watching them, who clicked on…
The campaign by public health advocates against sugar-sweetened sodas may have had an unintended consequence: Teens are drinking more sugar-sweetened sports drinks. Drinks shown in advertisements being consumed by impossibly fit athletes…
At 26, Dara Leinfelder had a toddler and two babies in diapers. After she and her then-boyfriend agreed they were done having children, the Bolingbrook mother considered options for permanent birth control. At her gynecologist’s office in…
Older adults who like to bask in the heat of a sauna may be less likely to suffer a stroke, a new study suggests. The study, of more than 1,600 Finnish adults, found that those who hit the sauna at least four times a week were about 60…
The demands started almost immediately: “Alexa, tell me a joke.” “Alexa, tell me what the weather's like.” “Alexa, play 'Despacito.'” When Chicagoan Heather Durham's three young daughters first started using Alexa, Amazon's virtual…
Reputed gang member Ernesto Godinez slipped out of his Back of the Yards home in the predawn darkness Friday and cut through a gangway about a block away from where undercover federal agents were working a gang investigation, authorities…
India Skinner, from left, Mikayla Sharrieff and Bria Snell, 11th-graders from the District of Columbia, are finalists in a NASA youth science competition. India Skinner, from left, Mikayla Sharrieff and Bria Snell, 11th-graders from the…
The audience listens to Illinois state Rep. Margo McDermed speak at a rally in front of the Kane County Sheriff's Office in St. Charles on Friday, Aug. 11, 2017. The event aimed to raise awareness about violence in hospitals The audience…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the annual F8 summit at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center on May 1, 2018. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the annual F8 summit at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center on May 1,…
Clockwise from top left: The deer tick, which transmits Lyme disease; the American dog tick, which transmits Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia; the Culex pipiens mosquito, which transmits West Nile virus; and the Aedes aegypti…
Champagne bubbles danced in fancy glasses and birthday candles burned atop a cheesecake marking 104 years of a long and accomplished life. David Goodall listened quietly as his loved ones started to sing. Then he took a breath, made a wish…
Megan Krail helps a 4-year-old boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder practice trick-or-treating at The University of Texas at Dallas' Callier Center for Communication Disorders preschool class in Dallas. Megan Krail helps a 4-year-old boy with…
At Swedish Covenant Hospital, one room is designated to treat sexual assault patients. Proposed legislation would require hospitals change the way they treat sexual assault patients in emergency rooms. At Swedish Covenant Hospital, one…
Oak Park native Michelle McNamara researched the Golden State Killer for years. She even wrote a New York Times best-selling book about the man who raped and murdered dozens from 1976 to 1986 in Southern California, “I'll Be Gone in the…
Bill Cosby has been found guilty of drugging and molesting a woman in 2004 in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era. After decades of whispers, lawsuits, investigations and close calls — and a multitude of women who lost hope…
From left, Dr. Gerald Brandacher, Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, Dr. Richard Redett, Assistant Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Carisa Cooney and Dr. Damon Cooney discuss the world's first total penis and scrotum transplant, performed…