On Chicago's South Side, the Center for Better Aging provides primary care, wellness education, and social services to adults ...

For decades, life expectancy in Chicago has varied significantly along racial, socioeconomic, and neighborhood lines.

Longevity coaching has also entered the public consciousness alongside a growing focus on healthspan, a concept that Peter ...

Mahjong is a "complete cognitive workout." The recent surge in players holds promise for brain health and socialization.

Emergency medicine physicians — who have among the highest burnout rates of any specialty, according to the American Medical ...

Chicago had the worst air quality in the world this past July. As extreme weather events become more common, researchers are exploring the long-term effects of poor air quality — including on dementia ...

Chicago baseball fans don’t need a reminder of how brutal this year has been on pitching arms. The Cubs lost top starter Cade Horton to a season-ending torn ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) after just ...

A mother and daughter traveled from their home on Chicago’s South Side to Humboldt Park earlier today — not to ride the swan boats in the lagoon or to go bird watching along the trails, but so that ...

Victoria Bell of Washington Park, a neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, was navigating a painful divorce and supporting two children on her own when she resolved to build a better future for her ...

Stay inside as much as possible, experts warn, as Chicago fills with smoke from Canadian wildfires. Children, senior citizens, and people with preexisting conditions are especially at risk from this ...

U.S. medical school enrollment hit an all-time high in 2025, topping 100,000 students for the first time, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. Yet difficulty securing ...

People are increasingly noticing shorter primary care appointment times. And David Liss, PhD, a researcher at Northwestern University, has been studying the trend. Liss and colleagues compared ...