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The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a tightening of standards regulating the manufacturing of several toxic chemicals, including ethylene oxide, which is widely used for sterilizing PPE and other medical equipment.
Three rural health care policy experts talk about the challenges, goals and opportunities in the context of AHA’s 2023 rural agenda.
A new Senate bill has won AHA’s backing due to the way it would provide rural hospitals with a much-needed financial lifeline
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released additional information on the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model extension for calendar years 2025 through 2030. Announced last month, the model extension will introduce changes intended to more fully address the…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today issued a Health Alert Network Health Advisory to inform clinicians and public health departments in the United States about two confirmed outbreaks of Marburg virus disease.
The Department of Health and Human Services yesterday released a fact sheet summarizing federal efforts to address Long COVID — the signs, symptoms and conditions that can continue or develop after initial COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The Food and Drug Administration today withdrew approval for Makena and its generics, citing a confirmatory study that did not verify clinical benefit. Makena had been approved under the FDA’s accelerated approval pathway to reduce the risk of preterm birth in women pregnant with one baby who have…
Discover how the ASAP 340B coalition's policy proposals contradict Congress' intent to preserve the 340B program. Patients' lives are at stake.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack introduces this special podcast, the story of how one man is working to change the world by delivering refurbished ambulances for second service in Ukraine.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services April 5 released a final rule that would increase oversight of Medicare Advantage plans and better align them with Traditional Medicare, address access gaps in behavioral health services and further streamline prior authorization processes.