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The Rural Emergency Hospital designation, aimed at sustaining emergency rooms, outpatient care and clinics, will be a major consideration for a significant number of hospitals.

Restrictions to the pills aren’t new, with 18 states already limiting them as part of near-total abortion bans.

President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night made one thing clear as we inch closer to election season: The time for lingering on the messy details of the pandemic is over.

Congressional staffers have warned the AHA that hearings looking into hospitals’ compliance with price transparency and merger rules might be on the horizon.

Lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee are not wasting time revisiting a package of bills that aim to increase competition to brand drugs.

As of today, states can start reevaluating whether the millions of Americans who have remained covered by Medicaid during the pandemic are still eligible for those health insurance benefits, Megan Messerly reports.

A CDC study released Wednesday found the Covid bivalent booster reduces the risk of symptomatic infection from XBB.1.5 by about half.

The FDA’s expert panel on vaccines voted unanimously Thursday to recommend that anyone receiving a first Covid vaccine going forward get a bivalent shot.

In a ceremony today at the White House, the Biden administration will mark the end of the so-called X waiver requirement.

Advisers will vote on whether to recommend replacing the primary Covid-19 vaccine series with the updated bivalent boosters available from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna.