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To mark National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shared new resources as part of its Hear Her campaign, which seeks to raise awareness of potentially life-threatening warning signs during and after pregnancy and improve communication between鈥
The National Institutes of Health released a study suggesting one in every four COVID-19 deaths in U.S. hospitals may have been attributed to the dire strain that surges in caseloads placed on hospitals during the pandemic.
The Department of Health and Human Services withdrew requests for proposals on ways individuals could import prescription drugs from other countries where they are typically cheaper and companies could 鈥渞eimport鈥 insulin to sell at a lower price.
The Commonwealth Fund reported that approximately 279,000 lives have been saved through the U.S.鈥檚 vaccination efforts, with 1.25 million avoiding hospitalization.
Responding last month to an AHA letter, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it will continue to remain flexible in its approach to surveys if a hospital experiences a COVID-19 surge.
In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, events sparked by the murder of George Floyd increased the constant exposure to stress in communities of color, a detriment to one鈥檚 physical and mental health, writes Kimberlydawn Wisdom, M.D., senior vice president of community health and equity and chief鈥
Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a remote code execution vulnerability 鈥 known as PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-34527) 鈥 in the Windows Print spooler service. The Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC), part of the Software Engineering Institute at鈥
The total number of cancer screening tests women received through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention鈥檚 National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program declined by 87% for breast cancer and 84% for cervical cancer during April 2020 in comparison to the past 5-year averages鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday announced Meena Seshamani, M.D., as its deputy administrator and director of Center for Medicare.
More than 120,000 Oklahomans July 1 started receiving health benefits through the state鈥檚 voter-approved Medicaid expansion, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said.