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.

Former FDA chief Dr. David Kessler says the new weight-loss drugs are a powerful tool to fight obesity. But they come with ...

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 ...

The Illinois State Water Survey is continuing data development to analyze flood risks in six Central Illinois counties. What Creedence Clearwater Revival's Surviving Members Are Doing Now ...

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 ...

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

An internal memo and emails show that Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the data transfer, citing legal and ethical concerns.

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