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Moderna announced an updated timeline for its COVID-19 vaccine for children. According to Moderna, the Food and Drug Administration last week notified the drug maker that it may not complete its assessment of the company鈥檚 EUA request for children age 12 to 17 before January 2022.
As recommended by its advisory committee on preventing lead exposure, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reduced the blood lead reference value for children from 5 micrograms per deciliter to 3.5 micrograms per deciliter to reflect declining blood lead levels in U.S. children aged 1鈥
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack Sunday submitted the following letter to the editor of the New York Times responding to an article published online on a recent study in JAMA Health Forum on the Provider Relief Fund.
The number of uninsured U.S. residents did not change substantially during the first 12 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report released by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Food and Drug Administration announced a Class 1 recall of battery packs for an intra-aortic balloon pump used with patients undergoing surgery and to treat adults with acute coronary syndrome or heart failure complications.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer鈥檚 COVID-19 vaccine for pediatric use, moving the issue of administration to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for consideration.
The American Medical Association published a Current Procedural Terminology code for providers administering a booster dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
In a study of over 7,000 adults hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms, unvaccinated patients with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection were five times more likely to have laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 than were patients fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and no previous infection, the Centers for Disease鈥
The Department of Health and Human Services proposed to withdraw a rule finalized in January that requires the agency to periodically assess each regulation to determine whether it has a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, and if so review the regulation to鈥
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas released a new immigration enforcement policy for 鈥減rotected areas,鈥 including hospitals and other medical or mental health care facilities.