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By CDC Health Alert Network

Magellan Diagnostics' recall of blood lead tests, first announced early this summer, has... Read More »

Expansion of Recall of LeadCare Blood Lead Tests Due to Risk of Falsely Low Results

By Bradford D. Winters, Jennifer Slota, and Karl Y. Bilimoria

This article reviews the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) guideline on alarm... Read More »

Safety Culture as a Patient Safety Practice for Alarm Fatigue

By Kevin Poulsen, Robert McMillan, and Melanie Evans

A lawsuit filed against Alabama's Springhill Medical Center alleges that a 2019 ransomware... Read More »

A Hospital Hit by Hackers, a Baby in Distress: The Case of the First Alleged Ransomware Death

By Apoorva Mandavilli and Benjamin Mueller

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, on Sept. 24... Read More »

CDC Chief Overrules Agency Panel and Recommends Pfizer-BioNTech Boosters for Workers at Risk

By Anna Wilde Mathews

An investigation by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and... Read More »

Most of $9.2 Billion in Questionable Medicare Payments Went to 20 Insurers, Investigators Say

By Annie Linskey, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Min Sueng Kim

All employers with 100 or more employees would have to require that their workers be vaccinated... Read More »

Biden Announces Sweeping New Vaccine Mandates for Businesses, Federal Workers

By Katie Thomas, Robert Gebeloff, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg

Schizophrenia diagnoses among nursing home residents have surged 70% since 2012, yet the... Read More »

Phony Diagnoses Hide High Rates of Drugging at Nursing Homes

By Nathaniel Weixel

To protect one of the groups most at risk for COVID-19, the Biden administration is drafting new... Read More »

Nursing Homes Warn Vaccine Mandate Could Lead to Staff Shortages

By Mike Miliard

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated its Medicare Promoting... Read More »

JAMA Report Calls on EHR Vendors to Do Annual Safety Self-Assessments