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There could be a shortage of personal protective equipment, such as masks, in health care settings due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Department of Health and Human Services reiterated.
There is no risk-free setting for giving birth, whether at home, a birth center or a hospital, according to a report released by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Each birth setting has both risks and benefits, the study committee found.
Public and private entities can apply for $1 million grants for a three-year period to enhance or expand opioid and other substance use disorder services in high-risk rural communities, the Health Resources and Services Administration announced.
The House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee held a hearing on proposals to lower drug prices and promote new cures.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a new case of travel-related novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services said the adult, isolated at home, has a history of travel to Beijing and came into contact with known cases while recently in…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today proposed changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D programs, including implementing various provisions of the SUPPORT Act and 21st Century Cures Act.
During the State of the Union address, President Trump spoke about how “America is constantly achieving new medical breakthroughs,” spotlighting Ellie Schneider, who was born in 2017 at Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.
AHA's The Value Initiative has released a summary of 19 hospital and health system strategies to improve health care affordability, spotlighted in its Members in Action series last year
The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization allowing qualified public health labs to use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2019-nCoV Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, previously only available at CDC laboratories.
A new AHA resource debunks the top eight myths about hospital and health system mergers, such as misconceptions that they lead to higher costs for patients, large variation between public and private payment rates, and less access to care.