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The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration proposed updating opioid treatment program standards and admission criteria to expand access to treatment.
The Food and Drug Administration last week authorized for emergency use a test kit to help identify individuals with an adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2, indicating a recent or prior infection. Only laboratories certified under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments that meet…
States and health care providers may use regulatory flexibilities available during the COVID-19 public health emergency to help respond to non-COVID-19 illnesses straining hospital and health care systems, such as flu and Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today recommended the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 vaccines in children as young as 6 months old.
In a study of men under age 50 who were eligible to receive the JYNNEOS vaccine to prevent monkeypox (mpox) during the U.S. outbreak this year, unvaccinated men were 10 times more likely to get the virus than men who received the two-dose vaccine, and seven times more likely to get it than men who…
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality seeks input on how the Department of Health and Human Services can most effectively advance patient and health care workforce safety through a National Healthcare System Action Alliance to Advance Patient Safety, which the agency plans to launch next…
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today discussed draft payment update recommendations for 2024, which the commission will vote on in January.
The Food and Drug Administration today authorized the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 vaccines for emergency use in children as young as 6 months old. Specifically, the agency authorized the Moderna vaccine as a single booster dose for children aged 6 months through 5 at least two months after…
Formed in 2021, the AdventHealth Orchestra “has been a wonderful experience as well as an effective way to address staff burnout and promote resilience and mental health in the workplace,” writes Vincent Hsu, M.D., an infectious diseases and preventive medicine physician at AdventHealth Orlando,…
A new report from AHA’s Strengthening the Health Care Workforce series offers frameworks and insights to help health care leaders identify and implement digital workforce solutions.