Largest mass shooting in U.S. history renews calls for changes to federal...
At 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, June 12, 2016, a man with an AR-15 assault rifle, a handgun, and another “device” walked into Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, and carried out the deadliest mass shooting in...
View ArticleAdulteration and bloodstream infections add up to prison terms for...
The adulteration of compounded drugs at a compounding pharmacy—Advanced Specialty Pharmacy d/b/a Meds IV—led to 12- and 10-month prison sentences for two Alabama pharmacists. According to a Department...
View ArticleHHS ups prevention efforts as Zika confirmed in Florida
As Zika finds its way into the mainland U.S., with the infection having been found in Miami, Florida, HHS is working toward reducing the time needed to diagnose patients with recent Zika infections....
View ArticleHighlight on Maine: Main CDC seeks to withhold outbreak information despite...
MaineHealth, the Maine Medical Association, Eastern Maine Health Systems, and other health care organizations opposed a proposed rule change by the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention...
View ArticleHighlight on Iowa: Update on West Nile, Zika, and HIV diagnoses
The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) recently announced the first human West Nile virus cases of 2016, that new HIV diagnoses were up 27 percent in 2015, and that 13 Iowans were infected with...
View ArticleHighlight on Indiana: Lead and arsenic contamination causes health problems...
Approximately 1,200 residents of the West Calumet public housing complex in East Chicago, Indiana, are looking for new homes after dangerously high levels of lead and arsenic in the area’s soil were...
View ArticleOwner of compounding company at the center of the 2012 meningitis outbreak...
A Boston jury convicted Barry Cadden, the owner and head pharmacist of the New England Compounding Center (NECC), of racketeering and mail fraud in connection with the 2012 nationwide fungal meningitis...
View ArticleAGs request Medicaid policy change to fight in-home elderly abuse, neglect
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) estimate that one in 10 people aged 65 and over who live at home will become the victim of abuse has drawn the attention of the National...
View ArticleCDC urges providers to consider risks of opioid treatments
Although opioid prescriptions declined for five years since a peak in 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the highest-prescribing counties dispensed six times more...
View ArticleKusserow on Compliance: OIG testimony highlights opioid crisis actions
Gary Cantrell, HHS OIG Deputy Inspector General for Investigations, testified before a Senate Special Committee hearing on enforcement activities currently underway to combat the opioid crisis. He...
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