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The Democratic Republic of the Congo has reported 100 confirmed or probable Ebola cases and 43 deaths in Equateur Province since June 1, the World Health Organization reported.
Island child care programs reported just 52 confirmed or probable COVID-19 cases after reopening in June and July, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., will be joined by Rachelle Schultz, president and CEO of Winona Health, for the next in a series of Leadership Rounds – short conversations on a range of key issues Dr. Estes will have with hospital and health system leaders from across the country.
An updated AHA resource examines the impact of the social determinants of health on patients and communities as they battle the COVID-19 public health emergency.
The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for investigational convalescent plasma to treat suspected or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 in hospitalized patients.
In an effort to reduce regulatory burden, the Food and Drug Administration will not require developers to submit a premarket approval application, premarket notification or emergency use authorization for laboratory developed tests, the Department of Health and Human Services announced this week.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, departments of Housing and Urban Development and Agriculture, Administration for Community Living, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Health Resources and Services Administration released a joint informational bulletin to help states…
The Health Resources and Services Administration awarded $35 million in grants to support rural hospitals and health care.
Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services extended the Sept. 1 deadline for hospitals to apply for reclassification of their Medicare area wage index for fiscal year 2022 until 15 days after the agency releases its inpatient prospective payment…
The AHA sent letters to the heads of U.S. operations for five large drug companies — Merck, Eli Lilly, Sanofi, Novartis and AstraZeneca — expressing “profound concern” over actions they are taking to limit the distribution of certain 340B drugs to hospitals and health systems and asking them to “…