Lisa Schencker is a Tribune business reporter covering health care. She writes about patients, hospitals, health insurers and pharmaceutical companies. Before joining the Tribune in 2016, she worked at Modern Healthcare and at daily newspapers across the country, including the Salt Lake Tribune for seven years.
Illinois' adoption of the American Academy of Pediatrics' childhood vaccine schedule is the latest example of Illinois breaking with the federal government over health care policies.
Chicago-based Adtalem Global Education is again changing its name, this time to Covista, to reflect the for-profit college company’s pivot toward health care education.
Joining the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network is the state’s latest move into an area that was previously the domain of the federal government, before the...
In the last two weeks, Chicago has had two deaths and at least seven cases of meningococcal disease in adults — a higher number of cases than usual for such...
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ vaccine schedule differs from the new federal one in a number of ways, largely sticking to previous recommendations.
Venues that have installed Auracast in recent months include the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre in Arlington Heights and a church in Woodstock. Chicago’s Goodman Theatre hopes...
Lurie Children’s Hospital is scaling back its gender-affirming care for minors, the hospital said Tuesday, days after a top federal official called for an investigation into the hospital.
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital hopes to create a $99 million cancer center on its Park Ridge campus, a move that would have it join a growing list of Chicago area...