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Chair File: Shining a Spotlight on Suicide as a Public Health Issue

September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month — a time for mental health advocates, community organizations, health care organizations and others to highlight resources and raise awareness of this stigmatized, and often taboo, topic.
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H-ISAC TLP Green Ransomware Data Leak Sites Report -September 12, 2022

A daily ransomware tracker as TLP:GREEN for purposes of increasing ransomware threat awareness.
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H-ISAC TLP White Hacking Healthcare - September 8, 2022

This edition of Hacking Healthcare begins by examining a recent FTC action related to the Biden administration executive order on reproductive health that targets a data broker over the sale of identifiable location data.
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We Must Keep Our Hospitals Strong and Communities Healthy

This week’s observance of Labor Day reminds us of the many contributions workers have made to America’s strength, prosperity and well-being.
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New AHA podcast series looks at leading initiatives to transform care, advance equity

In this first podcast in a new AHA Advancing Health series, #JustLead, Shana Dacon-Pereira, senior director for the office of diversity and inclusion at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, shares how her organization works to advance equity of care and spread lessons learned, an initiative that earned AHA’s 2022 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award.
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HHS: Call volume up after suicide and crisis line transitions to 988

The Department of Health and Human Services today reported a 45% increase in call volume and improved answer rates and wait times for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline this August compared to a year ago. The 10-digit National Suicide Prevention Lifeline in July transitioned to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, meaning individuals experiencing a suicide, mental health or substance use crisis can simply call, chat or text 988 to connect with a trained crisis counselor.
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CDC releases clinical data on monkeypox treatment; NIH launches clinical trial

Clinical data from patients treated under an investigational protocol for TPOXX (tecovirimat) support continuing to make the smallpox antiviral drug available to treat U.S. patients with monkeypox during the current outbreak, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC protocol includes patient treatment and adverse event reporting forms to monitor safety and ensure intended clinical use.
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FDA authorizes new monkeypox test; study to evaluate intradermal vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued the first emergency use authorization for a monkeypox diagnostic test, whic
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FDA issues safety alert on breast implant-associated cancers

The Food and Drug Administration yesterday alerted health care providers and the public to reports of squamous cell carcinoma in scar tissue around breast implants, as well as lymphomas different than those previously associated with breast implants. The agency recommends that health care providers continue to report cancers around breast implants to help it identify and better understand this emerging issue.
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CDC reports increase in pediatric hospitalizations for severe respiratory illness

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today alerted health care providers to an increase in pediatric hospitalizations for severe respiratory illness in patients who tested positive for rhinovirus and/or enterovirus, including enterovirus D68 (EV-D68). EV-D68 has been associated with acute flaccid myelitis, a rare but serious neurologic complication involving limb weakness.