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Employment at the nation's hospitals rose by 0.21% in December to a seasonally adjusted 5,138,000 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That's 10,700 more people than in November and 139,500 more than a year ago. Without the seasonal adjustment, which removes the effect of…
The January issue of the Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, published by The College of American Pathologists, focuses on pathology and laboratory medicine aspects of the Zika virus global pandemic. The open access articles are available at http://www.archivesofpathology.org.
Margie Beadles, volunteer/auxilian at CoxHealth in Springfield, MO, is 2017 chair of the AHA’s Committee on Volunteers. The specialty committee of the AHA Board of Trustees supports the AHA mission and policy agenda by its activities in public policy development and participates in AHA…
The Food and Drug Administration recently warned health care facilities of potential safety risks associated with battery-powered mobile medical carts, including reports of explosion, fires, smoking or overheating of equipment that required hospital evacuations associated with the batteries in the…
The Food and Drug Administration should see how much it can leverage existing safety efforts to gather evidence and information about medical device safety, rather than relying on a separate and potentially duplicative event reporting structure, AHA told the agency today, responding to a public…
Federal payments for Part D catastrophic coverage exceeded $33 billion in 2015, more than triple the amount paid in 2010, according to a new report by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General. Drugs with an average price of more than $1,000 per month…
A partial repeal of the Affordable Care Act could increase the number of uninsured Americans by 29.8 million over 10 years, according to a new report from the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The resulting increase in uncompensated care could total $1.1 trillion between 2019…
Repealing the Affordable Care Act’s federal premium tax credits and Medicaid expansion to low-income adults in 2019 would result in a $140 billion cut in federal funding for health care and 2.9 million job losses that year, according to a report from the Milken Institute School of Public…
The share of Americans with pre-existing conditions who went without health insurance all year fell by 3.6 million people between 2010 and 2014, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Health and Human Services. The report estimates that 133 million Americans under age 65…
Patricia DePompei, R.N., president of University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital and MacDonald Women’s Hospital in Cleveland, will serve as 2017 council chair of the AHA’s Section for Maternal and Child Health. Charlotte Ipsan, chief administrative officer for…