Aqua Illinois advises University Park, Peotone and Kankakee residents not to give tap water to infants due to high nitrate ...

The Chicago hospitals will serve as "Elite Special Pathogen Treatment Centers" with the $1.5 million from IDPH.

Illinois' public universities are underfunded, forcing tuition hikes and cuts that threaten access and affordability for ...

New data on Zion Elementary District 6’s measles vaccination rate reveals the district is in a far better position than state ...

Canadian wildfire smoke has entered the Upper Midwest and poses significant health impacts in the hardest-hit areas.

Toxic air spreads hundreds or even thousands of miles from where wildfires burn. Last week, Chicago felt the sting—and ...

A bill creating an interdisciplinary commission to study the interplay between animals, the environment and infectious disease within the Illinois Department of Public Health passed the House ...

U.S. drug deaths dropped by roughly 40% last year among people under the age of 35. It's a welcome pivot for families and ...

Some packages of organic ground beef sold at Whole Foods stores across the country may be contaminated with E. coli, federal ...

The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public health alert for some raw ground ...

In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that ...