Bruce Japsen

Dickie Scruggs may have to stand in line behind the American Medical Association at state and federal courthouses across the country. The Mississippi lawyer, who brought down the tobacco industry...

A junior member of the Loucks family appears off to a good start in creating his own health-care empire. David Loucks, the 33-year-old son of former Baxter International Inc. Chairman...

The Illinois State Medical Society wants to see more progress from the American Medical Association's doctors' union before launching its own cure for physician labor woes. Next month, the state...

After years of trying to pinpoint the cause of a brain cancer cluster at its Naperville research center, BP Amoco PLC announced Tuesday that it has settled five of six...

The Illinois Department of Insurance's case to put the state's seventh-largest health maintenance organization out of business may hinge on whether Nat Shapo jumped the gun. As director of the...

In a surprise move, the head of Provena Mercy Center has been dismissed in the wake of a year of significant financial losses at the Aurora hospital. After 20 months...

As Edward Hospital forges ahead with its proposal to build a specialized cardiac-care facility, it is encountering yet another regulatory hurdle. This time, it's Illinois Atty. Gen. Jim Ryan's office,...

The days when large health insurance conglomerates chipped away at the market share of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans appear to be over. With Wall Street and plaintiffs'...

Frustrated at federal laws prohibiting most physicians from bargaining collectively, Illinois doctors are pushing for a controversial state law exempting them from antitrust scrutiny. The law is needed to give...

Allscripts Inc. could be the next dose Healtheon/WebMD Corp. swallows in its quest to treatthe fragmented Web-based health-care industry. On Monday, Healtheon agreed to pay $5 billion in stock for...