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Cardinal Health has created a webpage to keep customers informed about its Jan. 21 recall of certain surgical gowns because it could not assure their sterility.
The AHA and five other national hospital groups filed a friend-of-the court brief urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to affirm a district court decision blocking the Department of Homeland Security’s public charge rule from taking effect while legal challenges to the rule proceed…
During its Rural Health Care Leadership Conference Feb. 2-5 in Phoenix, the AHA will present its 2019 Rural Hospital Leadership Award to Cody (Wyo.) Regional Health.
Raymond Waller, director/administrator at Ascension Brighton (Mich.) Center for Recovery, will chair the AHA's Behavioral Health Council in 2020, and Robert Trestman, M.D., chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Va., will serve as chair-elect.
World Health Organization officials met in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss the coronavirus – originally found in Wuhan, China – which has killed 17 people.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services finalized a decision to cover acupuncture for Medicare patients with chronic low back pain.
More than 15% of adults in every U.S. state and territory are physically inactive, ranging from 17.3% in Colorado to 47.7% in Puerto Rico, according to state maps released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Patrice Weiss, M.D., executive vice president and chief medical officer for Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Va., will chair the AHA’s Committee on Clinical Leadership in 2020.
The CDC confirmed that a Washington state man was diagnosed Monday with coronavirus after returning from the Wuhan, China, region.
The Supreme Court said it will not expedite its decision whether to review a Texas appeals court decision that held the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate unconstitutional.