Will allergy-free peanut be a reality soon?
For her daughter's sake, Dr. Ruchi Gupta would love to have a "safe" peanut. The director of the Food Allergy Outcomes Research Program at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, and all...
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‘Nobody likes to see a child suffer’: Child life specialists try to ease pain
After 30 surgeries to correct a foot deformed at birth and worsening with age, 12-year-old Elena Williams just wanted to walk without pain. She decided on amputation and a prosthesis,...
New technology offers hope for sleep apnea patients
Al Pierce snored so loudly that his wife would move to another room during the night. Even worse, said the 67-year-old owner of a wholesale plumbing supply business in Florence,...
Palatine organization The Bridge helps teen cope with stressors
Managing stress takes practice, something The Bridge Youth & Family Services in Palatine illustrates to young clients by using a soda bottle. Do they react to a difficult situation by...
Doctors slow to have end-of-life conversations
When the concept of paying doctors to help patients plan for end-of-life care first came up as part of health reform, opponents thumped it as a step toward "death panels"...
Despite technology, drivers look to St. Christopher for safekeeping
Crash-prevention technologies keep evolving, from automatic emergency braking to blind spot detection, but many drivers believe in a different kind of power — St. Christopher — to keep them safe...
Why stem cell research maintains a low profile
The best-selling book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" cracked the door for a lot of people on cell research and its importance to finding causes and treatments of disease....
Combating chronic knee pain, a growing problem
Call it a sign of the times: The number of knee replacements in older adults shot up by a dramatic 46 percent from 2009 to 2013. Chalk it up to...
Lyon’s bouchons serve a taste of the past
Spot the bon vivant puppet known as Gnafron at a restaurant in Lyon, France, and you'll be sitting down to a meal that harks back to the Renaissance and the...
Disgusting or not, fecal transplant a ‘miracle’
Desperate from 20 to 30 bouts of diarrhea a day, resulting in dehydration and organ failure, Catherine Duff pinned her hopes for survival on a fecal transplant, however weird it...