Tennessee's chief medical officer reasoned that the state's now-fired vaccination leader should be removed partly due to complaints about her leadership approach and how she handled a letter about vaccination rights of minors that incensed some Republican lawmakers, state records show.
A Utah pharmacist has been stripped of his license and fined after acknowledging he gave people COVID-19 vaccination cards without administering the vaccine.
The Public Health Pathogen Genomics Centers of Excellence will work with academic and public health organizations to advance pathogen genomics and molecular epidemiology to improve the control of, and response to, infectious disease, the CDC said.
Healthcare professionals are pushing to combat the rise of the opioid epidemic by helping mothers get sober rather than punish their drug use by taking away their babies. But such programs are rare and experts fear that even more limitations during the pandemic will stifle what little progress has been made.
Workforce training, rural health and public health programs would see a 24% funding increase.
Pediatric visits fell 27% during the pandemic, leaving children vulnerable to preventable infections, a new report finds.
Private equity firms, physician assistants and nurse practitioners could win big as President Joe Biden takes on hospital consolidation and state medical licensure.
The charges are the result of an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department's antitrust division into employee allocation agreements in the healthcare industry.
The Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Control Program recovered $3.1 billion in 2020, according to an Office of Inspector General report.
Providers could seek amendments to their existing contracts that funnel repairs through medical devicemakers, which could reduce maintenance costs.
