Federal health agencies, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, have halted their communication efforts in ...

HHS oversees 13 operating divisions, including the FDA, CDC, CMS and the National Institutes of Health, as well as more than one dozen offices. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick to lead HHS, will ...

The Biden administration, in its last full weekday in office, announced the next 15 drugs up for Medicare price negotiation. Blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic is on the list. That means the ...

The Biden administration has announced the next 15 drugs chosen for Medicare negotiation, marking one of its final acts before President-elect Trump’s inauguration. The Centers for Medicare and ...

Clinicians serving influenza A patients should test them for bird flu, ideally within 24 hours of hospital admission, the CDC said Jan. 16. In a health alert, the agency announced new measures ...

CDC Urges Faster Testing for Bird Flu Amid Growing Outbreak By India Edwards HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hospitals loathe so-called site-neutral policy, the idea that Medicare should pay hospitals’ outpatient clinics the same, lower amounts as independent physicians’ offices for ...

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a new recommendation for hospitals to accelerate the process of confirming cases of H5N1 in patients. The agency is ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are hospitalized with the flu for H5N1 bird flu. Health care workers in ...

The CDC recommends that this subtyping occur as soon as possible following admission — ideally within 24 hours — to determine whether the virus is a seasonal influenza A subtype (i.e. A[H1] and A[H3]) ...

“What we need is to shift to a system that tells us what’s happening in the moment,” Nirav Shah, principal deputy director at CDC, told reporters Thursday morning. Both bird flu and most ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The CDC has confirmed the positive bird flu case in a child in San Francisco. City health officials first reported on a presumptive case in a child on Jan. 10 and continue to ...