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AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack began AHA’s 2024 Annual Meeting remarking on the essential work of hospitals and health systems, as well as the many challenges they are facing, including workforce shortages, underpayment, supply chain issues and cyberattacks.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked cuts to indirect cost rates for National Institutes of Health grants nationwide.  
The AHA and Federation of American Hospitals yesterday filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, urging the court to vacate nationwide the Federal Trade Commission’s noncompete rule. The rule would ban, as an unfair method of competition, contractual terms…
The Trump administration yesterday announced it issued executive orders authorizing 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports. Importantly, both steel and aluminum are used broadly for medical devices such as surgical instruments, prosthetics, implants, crutches, wheelchairs, plates and screws…
A federal judge in Rhode Island yesterday ruled that the Trump administration must restore frozen federal funding amid ongoing legal proceedings about the funds. U.S. District Judge John McConnell, who issued the initial order Jan. 31 to block the funding freeze, said the administration had yet to…
U.S. District Judge John Bates today ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration to restore webpages that were removed in compliance with the Trump administration's executive order on gender ideology, pending…
The Central Nevada Health District yesterday announced the state's first case of H5N1 bird flu, a dairy farm worker who was exposed to infected cattle. The agency said the individual had conjunctivitis and no other symptoms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the risk of bird flu…
Bea Grause, R.N., J.D., president of the Healthcare Association of New York State, discusses the tough findings and partnerships needed to solve these problems, insights into the correlation between health care and legislative advocacy.
The National Institutes of Health Feb. 7 issued supplemental guidance on updating negotiated indirect cost rates for new and existing NIH grants.
More than 24 million people have had seasonal flu this season, according to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.