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The Justice Department’s National Mass Violence Victimization Resource Center will host a July 14 Town Hall webinar on victim-centric response to mass violence.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response and Food and Drug Administration this week extended the shelf life for certain refrigerated lots of the COVID-19 combination monoclonal antibody therapies REGEN-COV and Evusheld.
 The Administration plans to immediately allocate 56,000 doses of JYNNEOS monkeypox vaccine from the Strategic National Stockpile to states and territories for individuals with presumed or confirmed exposure to the virus, prioritizing jurisdictions with the highest cases and population at risk…
GE Healthcare is recalling 4,222 backup batteries for its CARESCAPE R860 ventilator in the United States.
The AHA, 340B Health, America’s Essential Hospitals, Association of American Medical Colleges, and Children’s Hospital Association yesterday filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit to require drug companies to fulfill their legal obligations to…
In this Advancing Health podcast, Priya Bathija, AHA’s vice president of strategic initiatives, sits down with leaders from ChristianaCare and Omaha-based Children’s Hospital & Medical Center to discuss the ongoing infant formula shortag
AirBoss Defense Group recently notified customers that certain FlexAir Powered Air Purifying Respirators supplied to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to facilitate COVID-19 pandemic response must be replaced or retrofitted for continued National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health…
 The Affordable Care Act requires non-grandfathered health plans to cover women’s preventive services, including free birth control and contraceptive counseling, at no cost to individuals and covered dependents, the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury reminded group health…
U.S. hospitals and health systems continued to face difficult financial and operational headwinds in May.
AHA last week asked the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure hospitals quickly receive the funding to which they are entitled under last week’s Supreme Court decision in American Hospital Association v. Becerra.