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Children's Mercy Kansas City's John Cowden, M.D., director of the Culture and Language Coaching Program, and Jessi Johnson, health equity specialist, discuss what makes equity integration at the health system so unique, and how initial discussions with employees helped guide its equity principles.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture Aug. 30 reported cows in three dairy herds tested positive for bird flu.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects this fall and winter to have a similar or lower number of combined peak hospitalizations due to COVID-19, the flu and respiratory syncytial virus, according to its respiratory disease season outlook released Aug. 29.
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D., Aug. 28 released an advisory on the mental health and well-being of parents.
Advancing health equity is a key priority for the AHA and the American Medical Association, with both developing key initiatives and programs dedicated to these efforts.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Aug. 26 awarded $100 million in navigator grants to 44 organizations to help consumers enroll in health coverage in states participating in the federal health insurance marketplace.
The Department of Health and Human Services Aug. 27 announced it will award more than $558 million to support maternal health initiatives.
The AHA, 340B Health and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists last week filed an amicus brief in a federal district court in Missouri, defending the state's law protecting 340B pricing for contract pharmacy arrangements.
If Johnson & Johnson moves forward with its plan to undermine the 340B Drug Pricing Program by unilaterally imposing a rebate model rather than the longstanding upfront discount model, the Health Resources and Services Administration should take “immediate enforcement action,” including…
The Health Resources and Services Administration Aug. 29 announced that it awarded a contract to the American Institutes for Research to support the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network Board of Directors.