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All U.S. adults will become eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by April 19, President Biden announced. That’s a couple weeks sooner than the May 1 target he announced last month.
Join the AHA and its American Organization for Nursing Leadership April 7 at 1 p.m. ET for a panel discussion on ways to identify and address inequities in maternal care, empower women of color and create solutions to improve maternal health equity.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a toolkit for qualified health plans applying for plan year 2022 certification, and guidance to help applicants identify essential community providers and meet network adequacy standards.
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency advised organizations to protect their computer networks from known vulnerabilities in FortiOS, the operating system for the Fortinet network security system.
Johnson & Johnson will soon start testing its COVID-19 vaccine candidate in U.S. adolescents, the company announced.
The Biden-Harris administration sent Congress its first-year drug policy priorities, as required by each new administration.
The Food and Drug Administration alerted health care providers to the risk of infections associated with reprocessed urological endoscopes, used to view and access the urinary tract, citing over 450 medical device reports since 2017 describing post-procedure patient infections or other possible…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission yesterday recommended that Congress require the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to transition to a Medicare indirect medical education adjustment that considers both inpatient and outpatient care, although commissioners raised concerns the…
AHA’s Hospital Community Collaborative, now in its second year, is seeking hospitals and community groups for its 2021 cohort to explore community-level health disparities caused, exacerbated or illuminated by COVID-19.
Hospitals and health systems lost 600 jobs in March, as U.S. jobs overall increased by 916,000, according to preliminary data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is the third consecutive month of hospital job losses.