Bruce Japsen

Underscoring the intense competition to find more effective treatments for cancer, Abbott Laboratories has sued world-renowned cancer researcher Dr. Judah Folkman, accusing him of stealing the credit for an experimental...

Lawyers, spin doctors and politically connected lobbyists on both sides of a controversial heart hospital project in Naperville are raking in the rewards from what's becoming an expensive certificate-of-need battle....

History appears to be repeating itself from the bench of the Illinois Supreme Court when it comes to rulings with major implications for the nation's health-care industry. Last week, the...

The exodus of health maintenance organizations from Medicare may once again leave thousands of seniors across the country looking for a dwindling number of lower-cost benefit choices. By July 1,...

A federal investigation into the billing and marketing of a lucrative prostate cancer drug sold by Deerfield-based TAP Pharmaceuticals Inc. is causing some anxious moments for dozens of urologists across...

Five health maintenance organizations in Cook County will be the beneficiaries of much-needed Medicaid enrollees, thanks to the cloud insurance regulators have raised above American Health Care Providers Inc. American's...

A course in Hospital Trustee 101 could have come in handy for 18 board members forced to explain last week's abrupt closing of their South Side neighborhood's health-care facility. Doctors...

While Bank One Corp. shareholders saw the value of their stock erode by 35 percent last year, the company's chief executive officer saw his cash compensation increase by 65 percent....

These days, doctors with the Illinois State Medical Society can't even get a break when it comes to one of their last bastions of fee-for-service medicine: the kind practiced with...

Citing a lack of interest from health plans and consumer disdain for health maintenance organizations, the Illinois Manufacturers' Association has pulled the plug on a joint health insurance purchasing alliance...