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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collated in one location training materials for health care professionals during the COVID-19 emergency, including webinars, videos and online courses.
The FEMA Healthcare Resilience Task Force has released a COVID-19 Hospital Resource Package, which offers tools to help hospitals prepare for and respond to the pandemic.
The Food and Drug Administration announced that spun synthetic swabs made from materials like polyester can be used for test patients for COVID-19.
The Department of Health and Human Services will partner with more than a dozen biopharmaceutical companies and the European Medicines Agency to prioritize vaccine and drug candidates, streamline clinical trials and coordinate regulatory processes to respond to the pandemic, the National Institutes…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has created two new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System codes (U0003 and U0004) to bill under Medicare Part B for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests that use high-throughput technologies to detect and diagnose the novel coronavirus.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued guidance implementing legislative provisions specific to enhanced federal funding for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program.
President Trump announced guidelines that states and localities can use for easing social distancing restrictions, including criteria for employers, individuals and hospitals.
As the COVID-19 surge wanes in different parts of the country, the AHA, American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists, and Association of periOperative Registered Nurses today released a roadmap for safely resuming elective surgery.
President Trump directed the Secretary of Defense to authorize 100% federal cost-sharing for the governors of Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Vermont to deploy the National Guard to support their respective COVID-19 emergency assistance efforts for up to 31 days.
The Department of Health and Human Services awarded $90 million for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program recipients as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act.