Ronald Kotulak

For people who like to monitor their health by the numbers, understanding cholesterol readings has always been fairly straightforward: total cholesterol readings, and especially the so-called "bad cholesterol"-- low-density lipoproteins...

Controversial since it was first proposed as a Cold War outpost nearly 15 years ago, the international space station set to start assembly in November after long delays and mammoth...

The slayings of four schoolgirls and a teacher in Jonesboro, Ark., and two other recent incidents involving shootings by young boys has focused the nation's attention on youthful violence as...

When Tony Randall became a first-time father last week at age 77, he got hearty congratulations. But after a 63-year-old California woman lied about her age and had a baby...

The patient was a young black man named James Cornish. He had been rushed to Provident Hospital on the South Side with a knife wound in his chest from a...

In the closing years of the 20th Century, the world has come to know and fear a list of notorious environmental hazards, but few have caused more panic than a...

When it comes to treating enlarged prostates, a condition that affects more than half of American men over age 60, less may be more. New federal guidelines announced Tuesday say...

While his newborn twin daughters slept in their hospital bed Friday, Kenny Lakeberg began to make funeral arrangements for one and perhaps both of them. "Every time we're up there...

Words can be just as powerful as drugs in correcting errant brain pathways that are causing some mental diseases, according to researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles....

Just as his 1938 formula assured the world that the sun would keep shining for another 5 billion years, Hans A. Bethe, now 86, is intent upon easing our minds...