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.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is taking North Chicago-based drugmaker AbbVie to task, warning in a recent letter that a migraine medication commercial featuring Serena Williams is “misleading.”
The pharmacy school, which will now be called the Herbert M. and Carol H. Retzky College of Pharmacy, is the first college at University of Illinois Chicago to be named...
Ascension and Prime want to close Ascension St. Elizabeth, a hospital on the city’s West Side, according to an application the systems filed with the state review board.
The nurses, who are represented by the Illinois Nurses Association, say they want pay that’s on-par with other area hospitals, better staffing and more security at the health system.
Jessie Marie Peterson's family spent about a year searching for her, filing a missing person’s report and distributing missing person fliers, according to court documents.
A strike date has not yet been set, and a strike could still be averted. The nurses and health system have several more bargaining dates scheduled for this week.
Chicago hospitals have been developing plans and practicing for influxes of patients should violence erupt or disaster strike at the Democratic National Convention.
CVS Health is doubling down on offering primary care, with plans to open 25 Oak Street Health clinics in its stores, including three in the Chicago area — a move...