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The Food and Drug Administration approved the first pill to treat postpartum depression in adults, whose symptoms can range from sadness and loss of energy to cognitive impairment and suicidal ideation. Patients would take the drug (Zurzuvae) for 14 days.
U.S. and other allied nations’ cybersecurity agencies urged software vendors to implement secure design practices and organizations to implement a centralized patch management system and apply timely patches, noting that malicious actors in 2022 most often targeted known vulnerabilities.
The federal government must vacate nationwide its federal fee increase and batching rule for the No Surprises Act’s independent dispute resolution process for certain out-of-network providers and group health plans because they violate the Administrative Procedures Act’s notice-and-comment…
The AHA filed its comment letter on the Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed remedy for the unlawful payment cuts to certain hospitals that participate in the 340B Drug Pricing Program followin
At its National Human Trafficking Prevention Summit, the Department of Health and Human Services announced a national innovation challenge to prevent human trafficking of women and girls.
As some members of Congress propose to weaken Medicare’s prohibition on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals and ease restrictions on their growth, new data from Dobson | DaVanzo show that POHs publicly report on fewer Medicare quality measures and perform worse on readmission…
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration released a report reviewing the four principal funding sources for states to finance coordinated specialty care and other team-based behavioral health services for patients experiencing first episode psychosis, the early period of…
Jonathan Schreiber, Cedars-Sinai vice president of community engagement, shares how 2023 Foster G. McGaw Prize finalist Cedars-Sinai Medical Center works with federally qualified health centers and other community partners to advance health and health equity in Los Angeles County.
In a letter to the editor published August 1 in the Wall Street Journal, AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack responds to a recent op-ed by former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and the Center for a Healthy America at the America First Policy Institute, which advocated for site-neutral payment policies…
U.S. and Australian cybersecurity agencies July 27 warned organizations using web applications about vulnerabilities that enable malicious actors to modify, delete or access sensitive data and urged them to implement recommendations to protect their data from compromise.