Bruce Japsen

Abbott Laboratories' second-quarter profit slipped slightly on charges related to an acquisition and pressure on sales because of foreign currency exchanges related to the stronger U.S. dollar. Executives of the...

Sara Lee Corp.'s stock received a boost Thursday after the packaged-foods company reported quarterly earnings that topped Wall Street forecasts, featuring a recovery in its international beverage business. Downers Grove-based...

A Northwestern University doctor-in-training potentially exposed hundreds of patients, including infants, at three Chicago-area hospitals to tuberculosis in what is being called an unusual case of a medical-care provider putting...

Indigent and under-uninsured patients are turning to Cook County's Stroger Hospital after not getting fully treated at nonprofit hospitals, swamping the cash-strapped public facility while fueling the county's sky-high sales...

Fitness training for osteoporosis sufferers could be the latest program covered in a trend of health insurers providing benefits for wellness. Major insurance companies, including Blue Cross and Blue Shield...

Abbott Laboratories' experimental dissolvable heart stent effectively treated heart disease and absorbed into the walls of patients' arteries within two years, the company reported at a medical conference this week....

With influenza season beginning Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are recommending for the first time that all children, not just the very young, be vaccinated. School-age children...

Chicago is moving swiftly to secure the Michael Reese Hospital property as the potential site for a 2016 Olympic Village, with a deal to purchase the land expected to come...