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Cancer doctors sound alarm over crushing costs of new drugs

June 15, 2018 at 5:19 p.m.

The year's biggest cancer research conference kicks off May 29 in Chicago, and physicians will learn about the latest advances in treatment. The gathering of the American Society of Clinical...

Accretive Health hired Emad Rizk as its new CEO last year.

Accretive overhauls more than half of its board

June 15, 2018 at 4:54 p.m.

Accretive Health has overhauled its board of directors as the company seeks to move beyond a checkered history of financial errors and questionable debt-collection practices. The Chicago company said in...

Walgreens spins infusion business into separate company

December 23, 2018 at 11:44 a.m.

Walgreens Boots Alliance's home-infusion division has been relaunched as an independent company called Option Care, after the drugstore chain sold a majority stake in the business to a Chicago private...

Allscripts cuts 250 jobs

June 15, 2018 at 5:31 p.m.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions said Monday it has eliminated 250 jobs primarily in the United States, including some at its Chicago headquarters. The job cuts represent about 3.5 percent of its...

Walgreens gets a European makeover, or is it a takeover?

June 15, 2018 at 5:47 p.m.

Walgreens, one of the oldest and most famous names in Chicago business, is undergoing a European makeover. Some would call it a takeover. Scotland native Alex Gourlay, 55, is in...

Walgreens Boots urged to open board nominations to shareholders

June 15, 2018 at 5:36 p.m.

A representative of union pension funds is again pushing Walgreens Boots Alliance to open its board nominations to shareholders. CtW Investment Group, an arm of labor federation Change to Win,...

Hospira shareholders approve Pfizer deal

June 15, 2018 at 6:00 p.m.

Hospira shareholders on Wednesday approved the $16 billion sale of the Lake Forest-based company to Pfizer, one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. Once the deal closes, Hospira shareholders will...

Baxter signage is visible outside its corporate offices April 28, 2004 in Deerfield.

Baxter to buy leukemia treatment for $900 million

June 15, 2018 at 5:00 p.m.

Baxter International on Tuesday said it agreed to buy a medicine to treat leukemia from an Italian company for $900 million, in a move to profit from the growing business...

Career Education to close all but two schools

June 15, 2018 at 6:24 p.m.

Career Education, a Schaumburg-based higher education company, said Wednesday that it will close or sell all of its schools except its two largest, amid a government crackdown on for-profit colleges...

The MillerCoors brewery in Milwaukee on Tuesday, March 4, 2014.

Former MillerCoors executive indicted for fraud

June 15, 2018 at 6:19 p.m.

A former MillerCoors marketing executive and seven others were indicted on charges of embezzling at least $7 million from the Chicago-based beer company, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The 20-count indictment...

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