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The National Institutes of Health awarded a total of $78 million in funding to develop and manufacture 12 new rapid diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2, with the goal of bringing to market as soon as this year new home and point-of-care tests that can detect multiple respiratory infections.

States and territories can apply through April 8, 2022, for a portion of $100 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to help repay educational loans for primary care clinicians in exchange for service in underserved communities, the Health Resources and Services Administration announced.

A coalition of hospital and physician organizations, including the AHA, urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to give Medicare accountable care organizations the option to use pre-pandemic spending benchmarks to set financial targets beginning in performance year 2022.

Abbott Molecular Inc. issued a recall for its Alinity m SARS-CoV-2 AMP Kits and Alinity m Resp-4-Plex AMP Kits, distributed between May 13, 2020, and Aug. 31, 2021, for their potential to give false positive results.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an operational planning guide for pediatric COVID-19 vaccination and preliminary information on the pediatric Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.

Available data support the safety and effectiveness of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use authorization as a booster dose in individuals aged 18 and older at least two months after an initial single dose, the Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted 19-0.

Cybercrimes directed against hospitals and health systems have been on a massive upswing worldwide for several years, accelerating even more during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted unanimously to recommend an extra Moderna booster dose for certain individuals.

GE Healthcare Partners, in partnership with Oregon-based Apprise Health Insight, launched a first-of-its-kind tool for addressing hospital capacity and critical resource management.

Hospitals and health systems must move from “doing digital” to “being digital” to compete in a rapidly evolving environment, writes Cynthia Perazzo, executive vice president of insights and advisory, at AVIA.

The AHA, joined by the Federation of American Hospitals, Michigan Health & Hospital Association, Kentucky Hospital Association, Ohio Hospital Association and Tennessee Hospital Association urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review and rectify a 6th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that will vastly expand hospitals’ exposure to False Claims Act retaliation lawsuits, sometimes years after an employee has left their position.

The AHA released the latest edition of the COVID-19 Snapshot, underscoring the persisting challenges facing hospitals and health systems during the ongoing public health emergency.

The AHA continues to spotlight the important work of rural hospitals tasked with caring for the nearly 60 million Americans who live in rural communities.

The Food and Drug Administration and Magellan Diagnostics Inc. expanded the ongoing recall of LeadCare II, LeadCare Plus and LeadCare Ultra Blood Lead Tests distributed between Oct. 27, 2020, and Aug. 19, 2021.

The AHA launched a new video series, Vaccines Work, highlighting all the successful vaccines that have helped fight severe disease and illness, such as polio, mumps and tetanus

Hospitals and health systems must move from “doing digital” to “being digital” to compete in a rapidly evolving market. AVIA, a leading digital transformation partner for health systems, designed the “4 big moves” to provide a road map for hospitals and health systems looking to embrace digital and emerge as leaders in health care.

Five Los Angeles County health care organizations — Providence, UCLA Health, Keck Medicine of USC, Dignity Health and Cedars-Sinai — have unveiled a campaign urging their community to seek timely access to medical assistance.

Depression during pregnancy and postpartum depression are among the most common complications of pregnancy, even higher than hypertension and diabetes, said Alpa Shah, M.D., director of the Perinatal Mental Health Clinic at Marshfield Clinic Health System.

A new study released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine offers advice for communicating with parents about their children’s COVID-19 vaccination, along with strategies for building public confidence in the vaccines

Food and Drug Administration staff provided their analysis of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 booster application, indicating that a second dose provides substantially more protection against SAR-CoV-2 than the initial shot.