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The Food and Drug Administration last week revised its emergency use authorization for the monoclonal antibody sotrovimab to exclude regions where the COVID-19 omicron BA.2 subvariant predominates.
U.S. spending on health care is projected to grow an estimated 4.2% in 2021, down from 9.7% in 2020, as spending due to the COVID-19 pandemic fell, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported today.
Robyn Begley, chief nursing officer for the AHA and CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, today issued a statement in response to a decision Friday in a Tennessee trial that convicted a nurse who made a fatal drug error of criminally negligent homicide.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI and Department of Energy yesterday urged the energy sector and other critical infrastructure organizations to take certain actions to reduce cyber risks.
Eligible nonprofit organizations may apply for $1 million grants.
Medicare eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals must attest to meaningful use of electronic health records for the 2021 Promoting Interoperability Program reporting period by March 31 at 11:59 p.m. ET. For more on 2021 program requirements, visit the CMS website.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yesterday broadened its masking guidance, enabling visitors of health care facilities to wear N95 masks.
Reported tuberculosis diagnoses fell 20% in 2020 and 13% in 2021, compared with annual declines before the pandemic of just 1%-2%.
The AHA has released digital and social media resources to help hospitals and health systems celebrate 2022 National Hospital Week May 8-14 and its “We Are Health Care” theme.
As of January, only 27 states had a plan for how they will prioritize Medicaid eligibility and renewal actions when the continuous enrollment requirement ends after the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to a survey released by the Kaiser Family Foundation.