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Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in healthcare regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies, and analyses; and other health policy news.
Week in Review Highlight of the Week:
This week, CMS released its FY 2022 Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Rates Proposed Rule. Read more about the rule and other news below.
I. Regulations, Notices & Guidance
On April 26, 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued guidance entitled,
Nonclinical Testing of Individualized Antisense Oligonucleotide Drug Products for Severely Debilitating or Life-Threatening Diseases; Draft Guidance for Sponsor-Investigators. FDA is publishing this draft guidance to help sponsor-investigators with developing the nonclinical information that FDA recommends to support an investigational new drug application (IND) for certain individual
The number of campuses requiring students to be vaccinated is increasing
Similar measures have been announced by some private institutions
On Thursday, 10-campus University of California and the 23-campus California State University announced they will require vaccines for students on campus
Others public or state Universities in New York, Maryland and Rhode Island have also announced the requirement, as many launch vaccination blitzes
Non-vaccinated UC students will be barred from in-person access to campus
Colleges weigh mandating vaccines but some may not have a choice
India at global epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic
Replay Video UP NEXT As more colleges and universities announce plans to require all students be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to return to campus, they ve placed themselves at the forefront of a politically charged debate over whether institutions should be able to mandate vaccines. Public health experts say that by requiring vaccinations against the virus that has so far resulted in more than 570,000 U.S. deaths, colleges and universities could play a significant role in helping vaccinate tens of millions of college-age Americans especially important after some college populations sparked waves of COVID-19 infections in their surrounding communities last year.