One of the five largest health insurers in the U.S. plans on expanding its offerings on health insurance marketplaces for 2017, going in the opposite direction of to rivals Humana and UnitedHealthcare when it comes to participation on Affordable Care Act exchanges.

Diagnosis and dectect of Alzheimer’s disease has long been problematic. Now, a new technology may use an individual's speech patterns to detect and monitor cognitive disorders, including Alzheimer’s.

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.

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has announced renowned New York Times health journalist Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, as the new editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News.

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.