Bruce Japsen

Long averse to major acquisitions of retail drugstores, Walgreen Co. is looking at buying specialty pharmacies as the company builds its health-care business. The Deerfield-based pharmacy giant says it is...

It's not cheap to build a new hospital, or even to plan it. Rush University Medical Center, in the preliminary stages of a massive renovation, will soon seek state permission...

Abbott Laboratories' emerging vascular device business achieved another milestone this month after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a company-made tool doctors will use to reseal arteries after catheter...

As Evanston Northwestern Healthcare gathers evidence for the appeal of a recent court ruling that voided its 2000 merger with Highland Park Hospital, the suburban Chicago system will have support...

The state's largest health insurance company is revamping its senior management structure as it begins competing on an increasingly national stage. Chicago-based Health Care Service Corp., parent of Blue Cross...

A trial date has been set for April 3 in U.S. District Court in Chicago in the federal government's multimillion-dollar civil fraud case against a former top manager of now-defunct...

For Chicago-area customers of managed-care giant UnitedHealth Group, some hospitals and certain doctors affiliated with Advocate Health Care will not be showing up on UnitedHealth's list of providers anytime soon....

Baxter International Inc. disclosed Wednesday it will repatriate about $2 billion in foreign profits, putting $400 million toward its underfunded U.S. pensions--a subject of worry for some retirees and shareholders....