Sinai Health System lands TIF funding for renovation
The Sinai Health System won approval for $31 million in tax increment financing on Wednesday to help fund a massive renovation project at its hospitals on the south and west...
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Study: Number of uninsured drops in Illinois
Illinois experienced a larger decrease in the uninsured population than the rest of the nation on average as well as most of its neighbor states in the year since the...
Walgreen Co. sales jump 9.4 percent in September
Walgreen Co. reported a September sales increase of 9.4 percent to $6.48 billion compared with the same month last year, boosted largely by an increase in its pharmacy sales and...
U. of I. nurses OK strike if deal isn’t reached soon
University of Illinois Hospital System nurses voted overwhelmingly to strike if they can't come to an agreement with the West Side hospital system by late October. The 1,150 nurses represented...
Walgreen, WebMD partnership awards discounts for exercise
Taking more steps or running that extra mile could also cut your costs at Walgreens.Deerfield-based Walgreen Co. said Thursday that it is partnering with health information website WebMD to encourage...
Laundry service app launches in Chicago
Need your laundry done? There's an app for that. Starting Wednesday in Chicago, the busy and the lazy can place an order on their phones to Washio to have their...
Northwestern names new cancer center director
Northwestern University has appointed Dr. Leonidas Platanias as director of its Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. He had served as interim director since January and will oversee clinical operations...
Obamacare Sunshine Act sheds light on $3.5B paid to doctors
U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals received nearly $3.5 billion from pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers over the last five months of 2013, according to a partial set of data...
Walgreen merger yields net loss for 4Q
Walgreen Co. reported a net loss for the fiscal fourth quarter after absorbing a large accounting charge related to its acquistion of European counterpart Alliance Boots GmbH. The drug store...
Walgreen suffers 4Q loss on acquisition charge
Walgreen Co. reported a net loss for its fiscal fourth quarter after absorbing a large accounting charge related to its acquisition of European counterpart Alliance Boots GmbH. The drugstore operator...