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Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast. "I thought, 'It's a nodule, I'm a guy, I don't think it's anything more than that,"' he said. "The more I messed with it, the bigger it got and the more it hurt, and that started really scaring me."

I have arthritis, and I read somewhere that I should not eat green peppers, potatoes or tomatoes with this ailment. Then I read an article that said this is a myth. Which is correct?

With visions of turkey dancing in our collective heads, families across the country are preparing their Thanksgiving Day menus.

Is there an ungrateful teenager living in your house?

One in five Type 2 diabetics in the United States is morbidly obese -- a percentage that has more than doubled since the 1970s, according to a new study.

He paid the ultimate price in the ring. Now Chicago boxer Francisco "Paco" Rodriguez, who died of brain injuries suffered during a match Friday, is giving the ultimate gift.

BRUSSELS -- Helped by a therapist, Rom Houben's outstretched finger tapped with surprising speed on a computer touchscreen, spelling out how he felt "alone, lonely, frustrated" in the 23 years he was trapped inside a paralyzed body.

Most people feel tempted to overeat during the holidays, when calorie-laden comfort food is in endless supply from Thanksgiving until New Year's.

Resurrection Health Care, Chicago, the financially struggling operation, is selling two west suburban hospitals on Nashville-based, for-profit hospital chain Vanguard Health Systems.

Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare is offering a unique service for police and firefighters in the western suburbs: free heart scans.

Skokie is offering free H1N1 vaccinations to all state residents who are considered at higher risk for the virus during four clinics scheduled for December.

The damage has been done. Hours and hours of door-to-door, woman-to-woman outreach into high risk, underinsured populations who usually wouldn't give the health of their breasts a second thought was undermined in a single moment, with a single proclamation.

Patients can't always comparison-shop for a hospital stay, as they might for a stock broker or a new car. Their choice might be limited by an HMO plan, their preference moot if paramedics decide that minutes are too precious when responding to a chest-pains call.

The apparent suicide of Chicago Public School Board President Michael Scott didn't fit with the man friends and family said they knew.

First mammograms. Now -- in an apparent coincidence -- Pap smears. New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer. The change comes amid a separate debate over when regular mammograms to detect breast cancer should begin, in the 40s or the 50s.

Two decades of improved treatments haven't made a dent in the threat of heart disease in the U.S. because too many adults are obese, according to researchers from the University of Texas.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois is reporting nine new deaths and 241 new hospitalizations from swine flu.

New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer.

Moldova's army is feeding its soldiers onions and garlic to help them ward off swine flu.

Eating disorder experts criticized Kate Moss on Thursday after the supermodel cited as her motto a phrase used on Web sites that encourage girls to avoid eating.

A new obesity report has sobering estimates for Illinois and the rest of the nation. If current trends continue, about 43 percent of adults in Illinois and nationwide will be obese by 2018. That's up from about 31 percent last year.

Four North Carolina patients at a hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.