Bruce Japsen

A federal judge may set aside a guilty plea of a former TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc. sales manager charged for her role in marketing the company's prostate cancer drug. It...

With additional state and county funding, a popular low-cost medical-care program for the uninsured in west suburban Cook County has more than 3,000 openings for patients when, a year ago,...

The state's largest health insurer is joining the parade of national companies launching health savings accounts. Chicago-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois said it has partnered with Mellon...

Abbott Laboratories' rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira will receive a sales boost later this year thanks to a pilot program to cover prescriptions that aren't currently under Medicare. The demonstration project...

For years, Stuart Levine has been one of the consummate insiders of Illinois Republican politics, a multimillionaire businessman and attorney who donated nearly $2 million to state and federal candidates...

Even though lobbyists are prohibited by law from talking to members of the state panel that grants permission to build or expand hospitals, several health-care firms have signed up powerful...

A Naperville hospital executive secretly tape-recorded a meeting with a contractor as part of a federal investigation into allegations that a state board that approves hospital expansions steered work to...

Illinois nursing home operators lag the nation in payment increases from the Medicaid health insurance program for the poor, according to a new study. Despite the rising cost of nursing...

Despite efforts by organized medicine to put some distance between doctors and gifts from the pharmaceutical industry in recent years, some physicians believe ethical guidelines have gone too far. A...

In what could be good news for Abbott Laboratories, an experimental prostate cancer drug is showing promise in its laboratory and patient studies after a highly publicized setback a year...