Peter Frost

Negotiations between the state's nonprofit hospital and Illinois officials over how much free care hospitals must provide to receive tax breaks reached an impasse Wednesday in the final meeting before...

Just days before a March 1 deadline to devise a formula for measuring how much free health care hospitals must provide in order to qualify for tax breaks, hospital and...

Just days before a March 1 deadline to devise a formula for measuring how much free health care hospitals must provide in order to qualify for tax breaks, hospital and...

Federal regulators and pharmaceutical companies said Tuesday that they have reached agreements to increase supply of two cancer treatment drugs, temporarily alleviating shortages for patients who feared missing critical treatments....

Rush University Medical Center just completed a massive, $654 million hospital as part of a $1 billion campaign to update its Near West Side campus. Children's Memorial Hospital is putting...

Hospira Inc.shares surged as much as 10 percent Tuesday as investors gained confidence that the Lake Forest-based maker of generic injectable drugs and intravenous pumps may slowly be turning the...

Walgreen Co.'s decision to withdraw from the pharmacy network of one of its biggest customers, coupled with a mild cold-and-flu season, dragged down its January sales by 2.3 percent to...

Walgreen Co. said Thursday it will buy certain assets of BioScrip Inc.'s community specialty pharmacies and mail service pharmacy business for about $225 million. The deal comes in the same...

The Cook County Health & Hospitals System plans to hire up to 85 nurses and front-line health care workers in coming months as the cash-strapped public hospital system tries to...

For U.S. tourists traveling abroad, a strong dollar is an ultimate blessing, the golden ticket that makes that five-course meal at a Parisian brasserie suddenly affordable. For three of Chicagoland's...