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The proposed changes would affect Medicare payments to hospital outpatient departments and ambulatory surgical centers beginning in calendar year 2027, but rates are not final.
Nashville’s emergency-management office launched heat patrols July 27 and is continuing outreach to residents vulnerable to dangerous summer heat.
The World Health Organization says transmission remains active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 2,124 confirmed Bundibugyo virus disease cases and 828 deaths were reported as of July 15. Germany has also notified WHO of a confirmed case in a U.S. humanitarian worker evacuated from the DRC.
Federal officials remain focused on Taylor Farms lettuce as a possible source of a multistate cyclospora outbreak, even after an initially positive sample was found to be inaccurate.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it would end a prescription-drug subsidy program created in 2024. The effect on beneficiaries will vary.
Oklahoma DEQ lifted Tonkawa’s mandatory boil order July 8 after a reported E. coli-positive result led to city and state testing and free bottled-water distribution.
CHRISTUS Health named Kurt DeVaney president of CHRISTUS Health Mount Pleasant on July 7, as the system expands emergency, specialty and outpatient services in the community.
A $2 million Helmsley Charitable Trust grant will support construction of a permanent PET/CT scanner suite at St. Anthony Regional Hospital, replacing the hospital’s current mobile unit and adding backup CT capacity for regional patients.
West Nile virus was confirmed in mosquitoes collected in Barnstable, prompting increased bite-prevention awareness during the town’s 2026 summer season.
West Nile virus was detected in mosquitoes from a Worcester trap site. Truck-mounted spraying was scheduled for July 16, with four tentative August dates.
The World Health Organization added the first diagnostic test for Bundibugyo virus to its emergency-use list on July 2, expanding confirmation capacity during an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said an Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading faster than response efforts, while some health workers strike over unpaid wages.
The United Nations and World Food Programme say worsening malnutrition has reached critical levels in parts of Afghanistan, as funding shortages force food distributions to be suspended during the peak hunger season.
The FDA says Boston Scientific has opened a worldwide correction for software used in certain ACCOLADE-family pacemakers and CRT-P devices.
Eight people in Maryland, New York and Virginia were sickened in a listeria outbreak investigation linked to recalled Clover Hill Dairy cheeses. Seven were hospitalized and one died.
Somerville and Fayette County officials marked placement of the topmost structural beam on a healthcare project, advancing construction while leaving its name, cost and opening date undisclosed.
Everett will end its ARPA-funded community meal program on Aug. 31, 2026. The city’s announcement does not identify a replacement service.
The FDA says Nara Organics recalled all lots of its powdered infant formula because of a possible health risk. The product was distributed nationwide through Target stores, Target.com and Nara.com.
Publix recalled all lots of specified GreenWise organic frozen blueberries and whole mixed berries on July 29 after the FDA identified the products as the leading food item of interest in a multistate E. coli O145 investigation.
The World Health Organization says a Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo is spreading faster than response teams can contain it, as unpaid health workers strike and contact-tracing gaps widen.
The FDA lists a July 30 recall of GreenWise frozen blueberries and whole mixed berries sold in 10-ounce and 48-ounce packages through Publix stores in the United States.
Gaston County closed the South Point Access Park swim beach in Belmont on July 16 after routine testing found an elevated E. coli reading. Confirmatory testing was expected.
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