For the second year, the staff of both SIR Management and many of their client facilities assisted Bear Necessities in hosting their annual Christmas party for pediatric cancer patients at John

BOSTON and DURHAM, N.C., Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA) and Cook County Hospital (currently John H. Stroger, Jr.

By Hal Dardick, Chicago Tribune May 20--Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has picked four new candidates to serve on an independent board to run the county's beleaguered public-health system, softening criticism of his original slate.

By Deborah L. Shelton, Chicago Tribune Feb. 19--About 350 doctors, patients and health-care workers rallied downtown at the Chicago Temple on Monday to press for increased funding for the Cook County Bureau of Health Services.

By Judith Graham, Chicago Tribune Feb. 8--In what doctors term an emerging health crisis, hundreds of women with abnormal Pap smears, unusual bleeding, pelvic masses and other worrisome symptoms are waiting for weeks or months to see gynecologists in the Cook County health system.