Lisa Schencker

Trinity Audioplayer ready... It took some time for Jasmine Jones to absorb the news that doctors wanted to replace four of her organs at once. She had been through so much already because of cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that can damage the lungs and... See more

Woman undergoes rare quadruple organ transplant at University of Chicago Medicine “It continues to be at the edge of what we can do in transplantation,” said Dr. Rolf Barth, a transplant surgeon and co-director of the UChicago Medicine Transplant Institut... See more

A Winnebago County resident with a previously suspected case of hantavirus doesn’t have the illness after all, state health officials said Monday. kAm%96 x==:?@:D s6A2CE>6?E @7 !F3=:4 w62=E9 2??@F?465 |2J `a E92E E96 A6CD@? 925 2 A@E6?E:2= 42D6 @7 92?E... See more

The last thing Chelsea Cheveria remembers after the birth of her daughter was greeting her new baby girl.“I said, ‘Hi, oh, that’s my baby,’” Cheveria, 38, recalled. She kissed the tiny newborn, and her husband told her, “You did it.”Then everything went d... See more

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The last thing Chelsea Cheveria remembers after the birth of her daughter was greeting her new baby girl. “I said, ‘Hi, oh, that’s my baby,’” Cheveria, 38, recalled. She kissed the tiny newborn, and her husband t... See more