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CMS model targets Medicaid access to gene therapies for sickle cell disease
The Cell and Gene Therapy Access Model, which seeks to increase access to treatments for Medicaid enrollees with rare and severe diseases, will initially focus on sickle cell disease, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
UPDATE: Patients identified in 25 states reported at risk of fungal meningitis tied to Mexican health clinics
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is following up on a previous alert of an outbreak of suspected fungal meningitis in Texas, which is now significantly expanded to multiple states.
Task force recommends biennial mammograms starting at 40
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force yesterday released for public comment through June 5 a draft recommendation that all women get screened for breast cancer every other year starting at age 40.
AHA #JustLead podcast: Joining forces to beat back Type 2 diabetes
In the latest podcast in AHA’s Advancing Health podcast series on leading initiatives to transform care and advance equity, leaders from Montage Health and Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System in California share how the health systems collaborated to reduce Type 2 diabetes in their communities, an initiative AHA recognized with a 2022 Dick Davidson NOVA Award.
CDC confirms vaccine-derived poliovirus circulating in U.S.
The recent paralytic polio case in an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County, N.Y. and wastewater samples from communities near the patient’s residence meet the World Health Organization’s criteria for circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced yesterday.
CDC confirms monkeypox in U.S. traveler from Nigeria
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed a case of human monkeypox in a U.S. resident who recently traveled from Nigeria to the United States.
CDC to open disease forecasting center
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will use American Rescue Plan Act funds to create a Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics to anticipate public health threats, the agency announced.
CDC estimates one in five U.S. residents has sexually transmitted infection
An estimated one in five people in the United States had a sexually transmitted infection at some point in 2018, with almost half of new infections in those under age 25, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
CDC reports health care-associated infections continue to decline
Acute-care hospitals reduced Clostridium difficile infections by 18%, catheter-associated urinary tract infections
HHS launches largest public-private Lyme disease partnership in history
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Foundation Oct. 10 announced the LymeX Innovation Accelerator, a $25 million, public-private partnership to expedite progress and strategically advance solutions to Lyme and other tickborne diseases.