It's National HIV Testing Day and health officials at a Chicago clinic are offering free and anonymous testing to the public.

Sickle cell anemia advocates recently participated in the Sickle Cell Disease Association of Illinois’ 37th annual Walk-Jog- Bike-A-Thon for the disease, sponsored by the Black McDonald’s Operators Association.

Rotting teeth and gums. Diseased lungs. A sewn-up corpse of a smoker. Cigarette smoke coming out of the tracheotomy hole in a man's neck.

Food allergies affect about one in 13 U.S. children, double the latest government estimate, a new study suggests.

Too many doctors are testing the wrong women, or using the wrong test, for a virus that causes cervical cancer.

The cafeteria in the lower level of John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital was transformed to a party room June 5 to celebrate cancer survivors.

Los Angeles Unified on Tuesday became the nation's largest school district to stop serving flavored milk in a move to combat child obesity.

Children on public insurance are being denied treatment by doctors at much higher rates than those with private coverage, according to an undercover study that had researchers pose as parents of sick kids seeking an appointment with a specialist.

Very obese older men hoping to live longer may be let down by a new long-term study that found weight-loss surgery didn't increase survival for people like them — at least during the first seven years.

The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that some chicken meat may contain small amounts of arsenic, though the agency is stressing that the amount is too tiny to be dangerous to people who eat it.