Bruce Japsen

Despite the trend of drug companies to curtail gifts to doctors, some physicians feel the new ethical guidelines are too strict. Next week, a group of Oklahoma physicians will ask...

The brand of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center may soon have a larger stamp in the near west suburbs. Officials at Oak Park Hospital are discussing the possibility of changing its...

Specialty hospitals are drawing scrutiny from congressional investigators who are concerned the facilities may be cherry-picking patients. In a new report, the General Accounting Office says hospitals that focus on...

In the latest push to improve efficiency in the health-care system, Chicago-area businesses will be encouraging hospitals to focus on employer-backed quality standards. Developed by a coalition of large national...

The bankrupt parent of Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center is testing the real estate market for a sale of the venerable hospital's sprawling lakefront campus. Cain Brothers & Co.,...

With almost constant Wall Street pressure on pharmaceutical companies to gain access to blockbuster drugs, rumors abound about potential mergers and the need for consolidation to stay viable. After all,...

Illinois doctor groups have scheduled what they are calling an unprecedented rally to call lawmakers' attention to the nation's malpractice insurance crisis and the perceived need for federal tort reform....

The sale of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center to a for-profit company may hinge on the approval of the Archdiocese of Chicago. One of the finalists in the bidding for...

Abbott Laboratories is gearing up for what it hopes will be the final Food and Drug Administration inspection of its embattled U.S. diagnostics facilities by the end of this year....

While Northfield Laboratories Inc. of Evanston prepares for final-stage clinical trials of its experimental blood substitute in trauma patients, a rival is nearing approval of its product for a different...