INDIANAPOLIS – Almost four months after the start of a new state program providing health insurance for the working poor, nearly 6,000 Hoosiers are enrolled and receiving benefits, prompting appreciative letters to pour into state offices.

Though infants are especially vulnerable to infectious disease, only 78 percent of them in New Jersey have been immunized against those illnesses by the time they are 2 years old, according to health officials.

Mental-health patients from Dayton and Fernley who were forced to obtain services at Silver Springs when their community mental health clinics closed, will have to move again.

Sandra Bruce to replace retiring Joseph Toomey Resurrection Health Care, one of the Chicago area's largest hospital operators, confirmed Tuesday morning it has hired a successor to longtime chief executive Joseph Toomey , who is retiring after 16 year

( University of Chicago ) Feeling connected to others is vital to a person's mental well-being, as well as physical health. Studies on loneliness show that a sense of rejection or isolation disrupts not only will power and perseverance, but also key cell