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2 S. Side hospitals consider uniting

August 21, 2021 at 6:28 p.m.

Cook County-owned Provident Hospital and Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center are exploring a unique partnership aimed at shoring up both money-losing medical centers on Chicago's South Side, officials confirmed...

Equity firms to merge therapy units

January 30, 2019 at 6:54 a.m.

The clout of private equity in the health-care industry continues to grow. Two Chicago-area private-equity firms focused on the health-care industry will merge companies they own to form a large...

AMA debates policy on video game addiction

August 21, 2021 at 3:59 p.m.

A committee of the American Medical Association meeting in Chicago to consider its future legislative and public health agenda has asked its House of Delegates to determine whether to back...

Diabetes pill’s sales health in question

January 30, 2019 at 6:55 a.m.

Heading into this weekend's American Diabetes Association meeting in Chicago, industry analysts are predicting a continued decline of the diabetes pill Avandia. Avandia, sold by British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC,...

AMA seeks to block insurer’s penalty

January 30, 2019 at 6:56 a.m.

The nation's largest doctor group is trying to stop a large insurance company's policy that fines doctors if their patients go outside of their health plan's network for laboratory services....

Former TAP sales rep’s prison sentence vacated

August 21, 2021 at 5:30 p.m.

Incarceration has at least been delayed for the only current or former sales representative from TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc. to be sentenced to prison in the legal aftermath of the...

British firm cuts Baxter link to vaccine

August 21, 2021 at 6:05 p.m.

A British drugmaker that received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for its smallpox vaccine says it will no longer be teaming with Baxter International Inc. to make the drug...

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administers the oath of office to President Barack Obama a second time in the Map Room of the White House on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, in Washington, D.C.

Barack’s rock: Michelle Obama

January 30, 2019 at 7:06 a.m.

The featured speaker at a luncheon, Michelle Obama is about to ask a crowd of influential Chicago women to commit their hearts and wallets to her husband's presidential campaign. But...

Pfizer, FDA talks could bring ads for Celebrex back to television

August 21, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.

The controversial arthritis pain pill Celebrex could return to television in new ads by this summer pending negotiations under way between the drug's maker, Pfizer Inc., and the Food and...

States craft HPV vaccine bills

August 21, 2021 at 2:11 p.m.

Seven months after the U.S. government recommended that all preteen girls be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer, at least two dozen states--including Illinois--are struggling to decide how...

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