Bruce Japsen

America's teaching hospitals have flooded Congress for months with urgent pleas for financial relief from Medicare cutbacks they say could severely damage the quality of medical education and force some...

As the population of war veterans declines along with the number of major military conflicts, a long-awaited report on the VA is recommending a dramatic restructuring of the Chicago area's...

Listening to cries from fellow member doctors, a committee of the American Medical Association's version of Congress urged the Chicago-based physicians group to form a national labor organization. The seven-member...

Not only does a not-for-profit Florida company have money to buy and run Chicago-area hospitals, but it's investing in a fledgling Internet health-care company, Drkoop.com Inc. Orlando-based Adventist Health System...

The Illinois Senate gave final approval Thursday to a bill that would give more than 2.4 million state residents some additional rights with their health maintenance organizations but would also...

A pharmaceutical company jointly owned by Abbott Laboratories said today its latest data on an anti-impotency pill are encouraging, and it will submit an application this summer for Food and...

In an extraordinary move, The Lancet, one of the world's oldest and most respected medical journals, over the weekend called for the resignation of the American Medical Association's executive vice...

Aetna Inc.'s proposed $1 billion purchase of Prudential Insurance Co. of America's health insurance business leaves up for grabs the profitable Rush-Prudential Health Plans here. Because Rush-Prudential is jointly owned...

Baxter International is back to square one in its efforts to develop an oxygen-carrying blood substitute after officially pulling the plug Wednesday on troubled HemAssist. The Deerfield-based company said it...

It's going to be hard to escape a relentless, confusing marketing barrage this fall for the government's new "Medicare Plus Choice" managed-care health insurance. But here's what the nation's 38...