Deborah L. Shelton

After sister with mental illness jailed, brother teams with others to help detainees

June 10, 2018 at 3:04 p.m.

Melissa Clark hit rock bottom. She was paranoid, hearing voices and fighting with other detainees in Cook County Jail, where she would spend 18 months behind bars. She had been...

A study found that annual mammogram screenings didn't lower deaths.

Mixed messages on mammogram benefits

August 19, 2019 at 7:51 a.m.

The debate over the value of preventive screening heated up early this year after a study published in The British Medical Journal reported that annual mammograms did not reduce deaths...

Scientist Erica Hillesland holds a petri dish containing cultures of carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in the microbiology lab at Rush University Medical Center.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria called CRE small in number but seen as deadly threat

June 19, 2018 at 3:52 a.m.

A family of drug-resistant bacteria that experts say kills up to 50 percent of people infected is spreading in Chicago and elsewhere, prompting doctors and public health officials to step...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria called CRE small in number but seen as deadly threat

May 14, 2019 at 4:30 a.m.

A family of drug-resistant bacteria that experts say kills up to 50 percent of people infected is spreading in Chicago and elsewhere, prompting doctors and public health officials to step...

Legislation raising doctor license fees sent to governor

August 24, 2021 at 5:34 a.m.

— Doctors will be asked to pay more in fees under a bill House lawmakers sent to Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday, with the money earmarked to speed up the...

Illinois House approves doctor licensing fee hike

May 15, 2019 at 6:52 p.m.

Doctors will be asked to pay more in fees under a bill House lawmakers sent to Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday, with the money earmarked to speed up the licensing...

Illinois House approves doctor licensing fee hike

November 3, 2021 at 10:20 p.m.

Doctors will be asked to pay more in fees under a bill House lawmakers sent to Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday, with the money earmarked to speed up the licensing...

Illinois House approves doctor licensing fee hike

May 23, 2019 at 9:06 p.m.

Doctors will be asked to pay more in fees under a bill House lawmakers sent to Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday, with the money earmarked to speed up the licensing...

Can Chicago end homelessness?

June 19, 2018 at 12:17 a.m.

A little more than a decade ago, Chicago's strategy for fighting homelessness mainly involved stopgap measures like pointing people to a temporary bed in a shelter and giving directions to...

Taking the wait out of ER wait times

May 9, 2019 at 2:25 p.m.

As a health reporter who covers consumer watchdog issues for the Tribune, I grew curious recently after receiving back-to-back e-mails from two hospitals announcing that they had started using an...

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