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HHS launched Giving = Living, a campaign to encourage Americans to donate blood and plasma regularly.

A new advisory from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Australian Cyber Security Centre details the top malware strains observed last year and immediate actions organizations should take to protect themselves from these remote access Trojans, information stealers and ransomware threats.

The Senate this weekend is expected to take up the Inflation Reduction Act (H.R. 5376), a roughly $700 billion social spending package that includes health care, climate change and tax provisions.

One important learning from the two-and-a-half-year COVID-19 pandemic is that the public health emergency (PHE) waivers made an enormous difference for hospitals and health systems.

As the number of U.S. monkeypox cases continues to grow, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra today declared the outbreak a public health emergency. 

Health Services Research will accept abstracts through Sept. 12 for a special issue on cross-sector collaboration that aligns health care, public health and social services.

Children infected with COVID-19 are at higher risk afterwards for certain symptoms or conditions, according to a study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

AHA yesterday asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to order the Department of Health and Human Services to immediately stop underpaying certain hospitals that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program and promptly repay them for the unlawful cuts since 2018 without penalizing other hospitals.

President Biden named Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 9 Administrator Robert Fenton to coordinate the administration’s monkeypox response.

As directed by President Biden in April, HHA released a national plan for researching the long-term effects of COVID-19, and a report on federally funded services available to help health care providers and patients address these long-term effects.  

President Biden today directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consider actions to expand access to abortion and other reproductive health services through Medicaid.

The Environmental Protection Agency released a list of commercial medical device sterilizing facilities where lifetime risk from ethylene oxide emissions are highest to people who live nearby.

AHA's John Supplitt and Aisha Syeda joined the Rural Health Information Hub’s Exploring Rural Health podcast to discuss rural health care challenges and solutions.

William Daniel "Dan" Barker Jr., who served as chair of the AHA Board of Trustees in 1979 and in various leadership roles over six decades with Emory University Health System, died on his 96th birthday July 21 at his home in Atlanta.

The AHA has elected six new members to its Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning Jan. 1.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released guidance on an optional home health services benefit for Medicaid-eligible children with medically complex conditions effective Oct. 1 under the Medicaid Services Investment and Accountability Act of 2019.

AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack and AHA Chief Nursing Officer and CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership Robyn Begley in an op-ed published in The Hill newspaper. 

Inpatient and outpatient prospective payment system hospitals, inpatient psychiatric facilities and PPS-exempt cancer hospitals have until Aug. 30 to preview their data for the October update to Care Compare.

The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit challenging an Idaho law restricting abortion.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a final rule that updates the inpatient prospective payment system rates by 2.6% in FY 2023 compared to FY 2022.