Bruce Japsen

While Merck & Co. tries to head off a global settlement over Vioxx that some predicted could cost the company tens of billions of dollars, analysts are predicting a multibillion-dollar...

Gout sufferers who have waited 40 years for a new treatment for the painful condition may have to wait at least a few more months. The U.S. Food and Drug...

As Children's Memorial Hospital embarks on a major fundraising campaign and is seeking regulatory approvals for its relocation and replacement, hospital officials want the community to know just how important...

Northfield Laboratories Inc., clearing another hurdle en route to submitting its blood substitute to U.S. regulators as early as next year for approval, said it has completed enrollment of all...

Chicago-area academic medical centers are making slow progress in the early going of their searches for new top executives. In the near west suburb of Maywood, a hospital executive familiar...

Baxter International Inc.'s settlement last week of allegations that two of its popular medication delivery pumps were flawed could open up the company to years of Food and Drug Administration...

Increased demand for a popular diabetes drug could boost Baxter International Inc.'s business of making complex pharmaceuticals and medication delivery systems for companies that lack manufacturing capacity for such devices....

A low-cost medical program for the uninsured in suburban Cook County will be able to serve 5,000 new clients this year thanks to a $3 million allocation from the State...

Dr. Anthony Barbato, longtime president and chief executive officer at Loyola University Health System, became the latest of the Chicago area's teaching hospital executives to step down. In a surprise...

Sodium, one of the planet's oldest substances, may be the American diet's newest enemy. The American Medical Association is expected this week to call for a 50 percent reduction in...