A Senate committee approved a plan Tuesday allowing minors to receive an abortion without having to notify their parents or legal guardians.
Lawmakers are considering ways to encourage more people to donate organs.
Over a third of graduating Illinois medical students are remaining in the state to complete their residencies, with internal medicine the top pick for students.
BioScrip has agreed to merge with Bannockburn-based Option Care Enterprises, creating of the largest independent providers of home and alternate treatment site infusion therapy companies in the country.
Efforts to expand Medicaid coverage for early autism diagnoses and treatment have cleared a House committee.
A group of state lawmakers is hoping to extend Medicaid coverage for new mothers to a year after they give birth to help reverse a rise in the death rate among pregnant Illinois women.
Illinois could soon become the eighth state to move its smoking age to 21.
Fueled by a shift to value-based care, house calls are making a comeback.
A bill to raise the smoking age in Illinois to 21 easily passed the House Tuesday afternoon.
Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago plans to build a $27.5 million primary care and outpatient services center in Skokie.
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Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru has entered a preliminary agreement to join St. Margaret’s Hospital in Spring Valley and form a regional health network.
Lawmakers unveiled a slate of bills Tuesday morning aimed at reforming how managed care organizations operate in the state.
A state board put on hold a proposed surgery center from Quincy Medical Group during a contentious Tuesday meeting.
Elmhurst Hospital’s Nurse Residency Program has been accredited with distinction as a Practice Transition Program by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Commission on Accreditation.
Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. ("Nichi-Iko") and Sagent Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Nichi-Iko Group Company ("Sagent"), a leader of specialty pharmaceutical products with an emphasis on the injectable market, today announced that Sagent has acquired an FDA-approved manufacturing site in Raleigh, North Carolina, from Xellia Pharmaceuticals ("Xellia"). Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Dr. Mark Rosenblatt has been named dean of the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago.
