Bruce Japsen

Northwestern University agreed Thursday to pay $5.5 million to settle allegations that over a six-year period the university misled the U.S. government into overpaying grant money awarded to the school....

The federal government this year will consider changing a rule that expands Medicare drug coverage to include certain self-injected pharmaceuticals, a senior health official in the Bush administration said. Such...

Johnson & Johnson is confidently telling Wall Street the company will soon be first to market with a drug-coated stent, a next-generation cardiovascular device used to keep arteries open after...

Patients in Cook County without health insurance are expected to pay more than double what those with coverage pay for hospital medical care, according to a study set for release...

This could be the year Abbott Laboratories finally puts the quality-control problems in its embattled U.S. diagnostics division to rest. At least that's the hope of Abbott's top executives, who...

The nation's largest drugstore chain is reaping some surprising dividends from an unusual source--a pharmacy benefits firm that employers typically turn to for help in cutting their pharmaceutical costs. Even...

The recent approval of Abbott Laboratories' Humira for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis may be the first of several uses for the promising drug, the North Chicago-based drug giant recently...

As managed-care companies ease restrictions on certain hospital procedures and treatments, Illinois patients are staying a bit longer in the hospital, a new analysis indicates. For the first time in...

Humana Inc.'s retreat from Medicare's managed-care program may not have quite the negative impact on Chicago-area seniors as originally predicted. The Louisville-based insurer, the last Medicare HMO operating in the...

Among Chicago's corporate giants, United Airlines casts a big shadow. But as the troubled carrier begins a massive reorganization, everyone from a convention center in Rosemont to the Lincoln Park...