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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today issued updated clinical guidance for hea

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday issued a request for information

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response yesterday issued

Prescription drug claims for the 38 million beneficiaries in Medicare Advantage and stand-alone prescription drug plans rose by 3.3% in 2014, while drug costs for the program rose by 17% to $121 bi

The vast majority of remaining uninsured adults are poor, young, Latino or working in a small firm, according to a new

Eight in 10 American adults support the Precision Medicine Cohort Program and up to 54% might participate if asked, according to a recent

Community leaders called the 2003 report a wakeup call for Michigan’s Kent County.

Mark Gestring, M.D., a trauma surgeon at the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medical Center (URMC), was fed up seeing teenagers arrive at the trauma center to be treated for gunshot or knife wounds,

The Food and Drug Administration continues to recommend that health care facilities not use certain Custom Ultrasonics automated endoscope reprocessors to reprocess duodenoscopes, the agency said t

A study published online today in Health Affairs compares prescription fills and out-o

The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has released

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today upheld a National Labor Relations Board decision permitting an incumbent union of a hospital to organize only a small portion of the unrepresented employees in a partially organized bargaining unit.

The AHA’s Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative today released a compendium of their toolkits to help hospital leaders, clinicians and patients examine

Healthcare Ready has activated its Rx Open mapping tool to help health care providers and patients in Louisiana, Texas and

The Washington State Hospital Association today named as its next

Michigan hospitals provided nearly 227,000 jobs and $2.9 billion in community benefits in fiscal year 2014, the Michigan Health & Hospital Association

The AHA today submitted comments on a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed rule revising

Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell Friday declared a public health emergenc

The historic flooding in southern Louisiana yesterday forced Ochsner Medical Center Baton Rouge (O’Neal campus) to transfer a number of critically ill patients to other Ochsner facilities, th

Michael Bromberg, who served as executive director of the Federation of American Hospitals from 1969 through 1994, died this weekend.