Bruce Japsen

Unlike the layoffs and restructurings that have plagued the e-commerce industry, a Libertyville-based maker of high-tech health-care services is expanding and adding workers. After digesting a flurry of acquisitions and...

It wasn't the enormity of last Friday's agreement to spend $6.9 billion in cash that left Abbott Laboratories' Chief Executive Miles White struggling for words. As he stood before Wall...

In a tight labor market, employers have been reluctant to reduce or eliminate health benefits for fear their workers may look for another job. But retirees appear to be another...

The American Medical Association's finances still are sickly, but leaders say the organization slowly may be headed to the recovery room. Following one of the worst 12 months in the...

Abbott Laboratories has jumped on board the corporate ethics bandwagon. The North Chicago-based maker of drugs and other medical products has named longtime Abbott executive Charles Brock to be the...

The state's managed-care lobby has a makeover in the works that could leave the state's health insurance industry with more coordinated clout in Springfield. The Illinois Association of HMOs will...

After years of teasing Wall Street with a potential blockbuster blood substitute, Northfield Laboratories Inc. is asking investors for more patience. At a conference in New York last week, the...

Consumers who are willing to pay extra for more choices of doctors and hospitals have meant a booming business and a healthier bottom line for Blue Cross and Blue Shield...

. While TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc. struggles with a game plan to get its Uprima impotence pill on the market, Pfizer Inc. is running up the score with an advertising...

A U.S appeals court may have taken a small bite out of a federal law health maintenance organizations have used as a major weapon against patients' lawsuits. The U.S. 7th...