health

As if 2020 wasn't bad enough already...here come the ticks.

Unless you've found yourself late for absolutely everything over the last couple of days, you probably changed your clocks Saturday night. What does one hour do to your system?

A flu outbreak in Ogle County has caused Rochelle Community Hospital to implement strict visitor restrictions.

On January 1st, 2020, the company will end the sale of all tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, cigarillos, chewing tobacco and snuff.

The Winnebago County Health Department (WCHD) wants to remind residents that now is the time to get your flu vaccine, before influenza begins spreading in the Rockford area.

It's being called an "isolated outbreak," but at least 158 of the 884 students at South Middle School in Arlington Heights were out sick Tuesday of last week.

If you go to change your baby in a public restroom and see scuffs like this on the diaper changer, don't use it.

Are you feeling tired? Do you have a headache? Experiencing stomach "issues"? Let's hope you it's not because you got bit by a tick.

Here's some easy ways to prevent mosquitoes from biting you in your home that don't require slathering yourself in bug spray.

It just got a little tougher to find a good "waste tire" in Rockford, now that 4,661.58 tons of them have been hauled away by the Illinois EPA.