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All hospitals may request a backup controller with modified software for the Heartware Ventricular Assist Device System to use in certain circumstances if the primary controller fails to restart the pump, the Food and Drug Administration announced today.

Medicare open enrollment for 2023 began Saturday and runs through Dec. 7.

The Food and Drug Administration Friday released for comment through Dec. 13 a discussion paper on certain novel drug manufacturing technologies with the potential to increase timely access to drugs.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today reported the first U.S. monkeypox case in a health care worker since the outbreak began in May. The report describes how an emergency department nurse in Florida was exposed to the virus through a needlestick, and recommends approaches to preventing infections in health care workers.

Who remembers paper road maps? Before GPS navigation systems and navigation apps on mobile phones, people would unfold an unwieldy paper map and use it to plan and track progress on their journey.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today approved for five years an

Exela Pharma Sciences this week recalled 49 lots of sodium bicarbonate injection because the vial may break while preparing the product for administration, causing glass to fly.

President Biden directed the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to consider new payment and delivery models to lower drug costs and promote access to innovative drug therapies for beneficiaries.

CMS will extend through 2025 the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced model, which was set to expire this year.

FEMA released guidance outlining the process the agency will use to identify and reduce COVID-19 Public Assistance funding for any expense for which funding has already been received from another program or source.

That commitment to being always there and ready to care is being tested as hospitals and health systems navigate historic workforce shortages, broken supply chains, rapid inflation that has increased the cost of caring, and other severe financial pressures that could jeopardize access to care.

AHA had urged the agency to renew the emergency to continue critical flexibilities.

The market for pharmacy benefit manager services is highly concentrated, with commercial insurers often sharing ownership in the PBM, according to the analysis.

The guide offers resources to help organizations build a community health worker program to strengthen their health care workforce.

AHA's Institute for Diversity and Health Equity held its latest Health Equity Innovation Summit, which explored regional challenges and solutions to accelerate health equity.

The panel also recommended screening children aged 12-18 for major depressive disorder, as it did in 2016.

Kimberly Wells, CEO of Pinewood Springs mental health and wellness hospital in Columbia, Tenn., shares how the HCA Healthcare facility is integrating physical and behavioral health care to improve patients’ lives.

With the start of flu season, AHA is providing a new batch of Halloween- and autumn-themed resources for hospitals’ and health systems’ use to encourage influenza and COVID-19 vaccination.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today recommended Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster for children aged 6-17 and Pfizer’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine booster for children aged 5-11 after the Food and Drug Administration authorized them for these ages.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response will host a Nov. 7 webinar on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to help hospitals and health systems manage emerging infectious diseases.