When discussing the pros and cons of new drugs, new treatments, new studies or any new medical development with government regulators, people with different relationships to the health concern at hand often make up an advocacy group. 

After several months of buildup, the CMS Hospital Compare website began to offer overall hospital star ratings July 27. 

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is formally asking for comments on whether it should change its policy of only allowing gay men to donate blood after they’ve been abstinent for one year.

According to an annual report card released by the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute and Catalyst for Payment Reform, the vast majority of states aren’t meeting the groups’ minimum standards for providing consumers with easily accessible information on the prices of healthcare services.

A majority of adults drug tested by Quest Diagnostics in 2015 were misusing their prescription drugs, according to a new study of patient results released by the clinical laboratory services company.

Updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) instructs physicians to test pregnant women for Zika up to 14 days after symptoms begin. It also adds new recommendations based on the first documented female-to-male transmission of the virus.

Several healthcare providers and physicians in Florida are planning on going to trial with integrated system HealthFirst, seeking more than $360 million in damages for alleged antitrust violations.

An analysis of CMS data by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said hospitals spent less on charity care and unrecoverable debt once the Affordable Care Act was implemented.