Walgreen switches to AmerisourceBergen as drug supplier
Walgreen Co. on Tuesday said it and partner Alliance Boots signed a 10-year drug distribution deal with AmerisourceBergen Corp. that will allow it to take up to a 23 percent...
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Catamaran 4Q profit jumps with help from acquisitions
Catamaran Corp. on Thursday said its fourth-quarter net income rose 59.2 percent to $42.5 million, up from $26.7 million in the same period of 2011, a rise the company attributed...
Flu gives local businesses a shot in the arm
A severe and early peaking influenza season has put many Americans on their backs this winter, but for hospitals and some local businesses, the virus has been just what the...
University of Chicago Medicine’s top official faces a challenging 2013
Nearly every morning, before 7 a.m., Dr. Kenneth Polonsky is dropped off near the Lakefront Trail on Chicago's South Side, a few steps from Lake Michigan. He carries no briefcase,...
University of Chicago Medicine’s top official faces a challenging 2013
Nearly every morning, before 7 a.m., Dr. Kenneth Polonsky is dropped off near the Lakefront Trail on Chicago's South Side, a few steps from Lake Michigan. He carries no briefcase,...
Feds approve Illinois partnership on insurance exchange
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday said her department conditionally approved Illinois' plan to operate a health insurance exchange in a partnership with the federal government, a...
Hospira shares slip on FDA review
Shares of Lake Forest-based Hospira Inc. fell nearly 7 percent Wednesday after the company said the Food and Drug Administration raised questions about the quality of its medical devices. Battered...
Taking the wait out of ER wait times
As a health reporter who covers consumer watchdog issues for the Tribune, I grew curious recently after receiving back-to-back e-mails from two hospitals announcing that they had started using an...
Hospital ERs begin taking reservations
The first time Erol Uner went to the emergency room recently, he knew something was seriously wrong because fluid retention had caused his legs to double in size. He was...
Hospital ERs begin taking reservations
The first time Erol Uner went to the emergency room recently, he knew something was seriously wrong because fluid retention had caused his legs to double in size. He was...