Jeff Lagasse
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare and Centegra Health System are considering a possible affiliation, the companies said Wednesday.
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.
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.