Pregnant people struggling with addiction fear mistreatment from health care providers and worry about the possibility that they'll lose custody of their baby.

While COVID may not be top of mind for people anymore, the pandemic isn't over. And for many people who have had COVID, neither is their illness.

In Illinois, providers hope the Living Room model will help fill the gap in mental health services, as the nations new mental health crisis number, 988, rolls out this month.

Advocates are hopeful the three-digit mental health crisis number, 988, will make it easier for people to reach out for help starting July 16. But some worry about states where crisis call centers already struggle to keep up with demand.

If you’ve taken a road trip in the past few years, you’ve definitely spotted the billboards dotting Indiana’s interstates and highways advertising cannabis dispensaries in Michigan and Illinois.

The Lincoln Scholars program at Southern Illinois University's School of Medicine aims to train up-and-coming physicians to work in rural areas by providing them with rural clinical experience right off the bat.

As the omicron surge continues, health officials in some states have given up trying to trace close contacts in all cases. That shift, combined with recent changes in isolation guidelines, is leaving many confused and unsure what to do.

Families with loved ones in facilities for the developmentally disabled are especially eager to spend the holidays together. But as the pandemic continues, they face new uncertainty and continuing lockdowns even as the rest of the country tries to get back to normal.

With roughly a third of the vaccine-eligible population in the U.S. still not fully vaccinated against COVID-19, public health officials have been calling on trust community voices to address hesitancy, mistrust and misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine. Keith Thomas has taken that message to heart.

Should you get a COVID-19 booster shot? Who's eligible? When should you get the extra dose? We talked to an expert to get answers.