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The Food and Drug Administration yesterday alerted health care professionals and patients not to use drug products produced by Cantrell Drug Co., including opioid products and other drugs intended for sterile injection, citing serious deficiencies in the company’s compounding operations.

The AHA has shared recommendations to stem the tide of the deadly opioid epidemic.

The flu hospitalization rate rose last week to 81.7 per 100,000 people.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, M.D., will address the Association for Community Health Improvement National Conference March 16 in Atlanta.

AHA’s Physician Alliance will host a webinar March 13 on responding to difficult challenges.

Tax-exempt hospitals in the 340B drug savings program provided $51.7 billion in total benefits to their communities in 2015, the most recent year for which data is available.

Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Tom Carper (D-DE), Todd Young (R-IN) and Claire McCaskill (D-MO) are seeking guidance from health care stakeholders as they develop legislation to improve price transparency in the health care market and lower costs.

Hospitals and health systems continue to enhance their ability to electronically share essential patient information with health care providers and engage patients in their health care.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission today discussed how Medicare could pay for sequential services under a post-acute care prospective payment model, and modify the discharge process for gener

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response will host a March 28 webinar on responding to mass shootings and other “no notice” events.

The White House today hosted a summit on administration efforts to combat the opioid crisis.

The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee this afternoon held the first of three planned hearings to examine the opioid crisis and possible legislative solutions, which reviewed several bills pertaining to the Controlled Substances Act.

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law held a hearing yesterday on CVS Health’s proposal to acquire health insurance company Aetna.

The Veterans Health Administration has launched a new web resource for community care providers as it works to improve the timeliness of payments and customer service.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker yesterday signed legislation authorizing the state to pursue federal approval to create a state-based reinsurance program to help stabilize premiums in the individual health insurance market.

Sens. Rob Portman (R-OH), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Maria Cantwell (D-WA) today introduced the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act 2.0, legislation that would increase funding authorization levels for CARA programs and implement additional policy reforms to combat the opioid crisis.

The AHA, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, and American Society of Clinical Oncology today urged the Drug Enforcement Administration to temporarily adjust the aggregate production quotas for certain injectable opioid medications.

Medtronic has recalled certain implantable cardioverter defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillators due to a defect in the manufacturing process.

Twenty states yesterday asked a federal court to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional because the Tax Cut and Jobs Act repealed the tax penalty enforcing the ACA’s individual mandate.

The Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and American Society for Microbiology yesterday released voluntary standardized protocols for duodenoscope surveillance sampling and culturing.