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The Food and Drug Administration April 28 authorized a fourth Pfizer COVID-19 bivalent vaccine dose at least one month after the third dose for certain immunocompromised children aged six months through 4.
The Food and Drug Administration last week alerted health care providers and laboratory personnel to a cybersecurity vulnerability affecting the Universal Copy Service software in certain Illumina medical devices used to sequence DNA for clinical diagnostic use or research.
Forty-nine cities and states with the highest HIV transmission rates yesterday received between $2 million and $17 million each in fiscal year 2023 grants from the Health Resources and Services Administration to diagnose, treat and prevent new HIV infections as part of a Department of Health and…
Join AHA Community Health Improvement and hospitals and health systems throughout the country June 12-18 in recognizing the people and organizations that are improving individual and community health and well-being.
AHA this week joined 30 other organizations in voicing support for the Chronic Care Management Improvement Act, legislation that would remove the 20% cost-sharing requirement for Chronic Care Management services under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.
AHA today launched an updated Opioid Stewardship Hub, featuring the latest tools and resources to help hospitals and health systems address the opioid epidemic.
AHA on May 8 will release “Rebuilding a New Minneapolis: From Tragedy to Transformation,” a short film in which six Minneapolis hospital leaders discuss how the summer of 2020 shaped the future of their work, and how that moment in time impacted their organization.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the first fecal microbiota product taken orally to prevent recurrent C. difficile infection.
In a study of adults hospitalized between February 2022 and February 2023, when the omicron variant predominated, monovalent mRNA vaccination was 76% effective at preventing COVID-19-associated invasive mechanical ventilation and death up to 6 months after the last dose and 56% effective at least…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released two proposed rules focused on ensuring access to services for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program beneficiaries across fee-for-service and managed care delivery systems.