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By Jeff Lagasse | 02:29 pm | April 12, 2016
The first Zika vaccine candidate may enter initial clinical trials in September, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said.
By Jeff Lagasse | 10:59 am | April 12, 2016
Healthcare payment solution company SwervePay has acquired StatPayMD, a cost transparency group, in order to provide information and price transparency tools to consumers, the companies announced.
By Jeff Lagasse | 02:28 pm | April 11, 2016
Advocate Health Care and the NorthShore University Health System will square off against the Federal Trade Commission in federal court in Chicago in Monday as regulators move to block their pending merger.
By Jeff Lagasse | 11:22 am | April 11, 2016
National health spending in February was 4.8 percent higher than spending during the same month in 2015, according to a new report by the Altarum Institute, marking the fourth consecutive month in which spending growth has been below 5 percent.
By Jeff Lagasse | 09:04 am | April 11, 2016
At Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Health System, achieving scale meant creating a system-wide supply chain infrastructure rather than allowing each facility to oversee its own device purchasing.
By Jeff Lagasse | 11:03 am | April 08, 2016
Tenet Healthcare announced Thursday that Howard Hacker has been named senior vice president and chief compliance officer, a role that will begin on May 2. As chief compliance officer, Hacker will manage and oversee the company's ethics and compliance program.
By Jeff Lagasse | 03:07 pm | April 07, 2016
A husband has started a Care2 petition calling for the removal of the leaders of Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital after his wife allegedly contracted stage 4 cancer as a result of a procedure she underwent there.
By Jeff Lagasse | 10:00 am | April 07, 2016
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Centegra Health System are considering a possible affiliation, the companies said Wednesday.
By Jeff Lagasse | 06:02 am | April 06, 2016
Facing new measures by the U.S. Treasury to thwart tax-evading deals, drugmaker Pfizer has officially jettisoned its $160 billion agreement to buy Allergan, according to published reports.
By Jeff Lagasse | 01:58 pm | April 05, 2016
Reviews of healthcare providers on social media sites like Yelp are filling gaps in traditional ratings programs driven by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, a new study in Health Affairs claims.