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President Trump announced Aug. 19 that he has nominated Heidi Overton to serve as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
A joint advisory released Aug. 19 by the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and the Department of Health and Human Services provides updates on activity by Medusa, a foreign ransomware-as-a-service variant first identified in 2021.
The Department of Health and Human Services Aug. 18 announced that its Administration for Children and Families has added two new peer support programs to the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse, allowing all states to claim federal reimbursement.
The AHA has released a new issue brief designed to help hospitals and health systems strengthen disability competence and improve patient outcomes.
In this conversation, Caroline DeLongchamps, director of the patient- and family-centered care program at MUSC Health, shares a powerful personal story and explains how patient- and family-centered care can improve quality, strengthen trust, and transform how care is designed and delivered.
The AHA will make a donation to the Indiana Hospital Association in support of hospital personnel impacted by the recent flooding in Indiana caused by severe weather that began Aug. 11. President Trump issued a disaster declaration Aug. 15, authorizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency…
A new AHA blog details how hospitals are modernizing care for older Americans. It highlights the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative, created by The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and the AHA, along with other resources by the AHA and its partners.
The Food and Drug Administration is seeking public feedback on a discussion paper released today on potential regulatory approaches for generative artificial intelligence-enabled medical devices. The paper includes considerations for risk assessment, premarket evaluation, post-market monitoring and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced the launch of QualTech, a new event created to identify innovative technology that improves health outcomes. CMS is seeking participants from U.S-based teams, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, private sector…
For the 2025-2026 school year, exemptions from one or more vaccines among U.S. kindergartners was at 4.2%, increasing from 3.6% for the previous school year, according to data released Aug. 17 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.