CVCA student chefs, winners of the Healthy Schools Campaign's Cooking up Change contest, prepared a healthy lunch for their peers Jan. 19.

With the Holiday season most people are feeling energized and pepped up as they are looking forward to all the festivities and celebrations. Now that the high from hustle and bustle of the Holiday Season is over all that vim and vigor might have given way to sluggishness and exhaustion.

CHICAGO (AP) — The nation's largest nurses union has gained a bigger footprint in the Chicago area with a vote by nurses at Jackson Park Hospital and Medical Center to join National Nurses United.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Tobacco Prevention Project is greeting the new year with tips for smokers resolving to quit.

CHICAGO (AP) — Bill Dunphy thought his colonoscopy would be free.

CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois is receiving a performance bonus for the third straight year for enrolling significant numbers of uninsured children in Medicaid.

CHICAGO (AP) — The chief medical officer for the Cook County Health and Hospitals System says people should consider ringing in the new year by giving up meat.

CHICAGO (AP) — The Illinois Department of Public Health says Illinois ranks seventh in the U.S. when it comes to reported AIDS cases.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare's prescription coverage gap is getting noticeably smaller and easier to manage this year for millions of older and disabled people with high drug costs.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Your blood type might affect your risk for stroke. People with AB and women with B were a little more likely to suffer one than people with O blood — the most common type, a study found.