Bruce Japsen

Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan's office on Monday sued dozens of major drugmakers, accusing them of defrauding the state by overcharging government programs and Illinois Medicare customers out of hundreds...

Under new ownership, operations at a Downers Grove-based health benefits company are growing smaller each day. Workers said employees and departments have been quietly eliminated in recent weeks as part...

Abbott Laboratories, trying to bolster the credibility of its vascular business, will soon enroll patients in a trial testing the benefits of a stent designed to keep carotid arteries in...

With sales of its blockbuster heartburn drug dropping rapidly, TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc. is rushing to develop a product to take its place. Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, which owns...

The Chicago area's hospitals, which believe they are misunderstood by lawmakers and consumers, are flexing their muscles in a new report designed to demonstrate their importance to the community. The...

With the Bush administration looking at ways to reduce the federal share of government spending on medical care for the poor, a new Illinois lobbying group is forming to win...

Rush University Medical Center, which is in the early stages of a planned renovation and expansion, has confirmed what will be in the first stage of construction for the West...

A fast-growing player in the international home medical-care business has purchased a Melrose Park company to establish a beachhead for expansion in the Midwest. Pennsylvania-based Air Products and Chemicals Inc....

The nation's largest doctor group is bracing physicians for the day they will join the ranks of millions of U.S. employees who only get raises when they perform well at...

Community pharmacists support the idea of importing drugs from other countries to lower patients' costs as long as they are funneled through U.S. pharmacies, according to a study by researchers...