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One quick spring-cleaning task is cleaning out your utensil drawer. Take some extra time to weed out broken items or things that you never use.

Ease your way into spring cleaning with these 11 low-lift tasks

It’s almost time for spring cleaning. But before you throw open and wash the windows, try picking off some easier cleaning tasks.

Eric Kinkel is Hersey High School graduate and has been a professional singer for decades. He suffered a brain trauma that reduced his ability to speak and sing.

A plea for help: Wauconda musician who lost his voice to a brain injury seeks answers through documentary

Wauconda singer-songwriter Eric Kinkel and his supporters have created a documentary film he hopes will lead to the return of his voice due to brain trauma.

Glen Ellyn firefighters march up the stairs of the Oakbrook Terrace Tower’s 31 stories Sunday as part of the American Lung Association’s Fight For Air Climb.

Fighting lung disease, one step at a time

Firefighters joined hundreds of others fighting lung disease one step at a time during Sunday’s Fight for Air Climb at the Oakbrook Terrace Tower.

Children’s health: Innovative types of therapy options for children

If you've never experienced behavioral therapy for yourself or your family, your concepts of it might center on what you’ve seen in the media, for better or worse. But behavioral therapy can take many forms for some of our youngest patients.

Researchers have learned yawning can affect the movement of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, but they don’t know why it can be contagious.

Ask the doctors: The reason for yawning still being researched

Researchers in Australia have found that yawning can affect the movement of cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, a clear liquid produced helps to cushion and protect this critical organ. CSF also carries nutrients and removes waste.

International Women’s Day is a celebration and a call to action. Here are things to know

Women across the world called for equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice and decision-making jobs and celebrate progress toward female empowerment during even...

A study in the British Journal of Cancer says vegetarians had lower risk of cancers, including pancreatic, breast and prostate.

Study finds cancer risk is lower for vegetarians, but not vegans

Vegetarian diets are linked with a lower risk of several cancers, including pancreatic, breast and prostate, according to a study that found no similar benefit — and even a higher chance of colon cancer — among vegans.