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As the number of U.S. monkeypox cases continues to grow, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra today declared the outbreak a public health emergency. 

Health Services Research will accept abstracts through Sept. 12 for a special issue on cross-sector collaboration that aligns health care, public health and social services.

Children infected with COVID-19 are at higher risk afterwards for certain symptoms or conditions, according to a study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

President Biden named Federal Emergency Management Agency Region 9 Administrator Robert Fenton to coordinate the administration’s monkeypox response.

As directed by President Biden in April, HHA released a national plan for researching the long-term effects of COVID-19, and a report on federally funded services available to help health care providers and patients address these long-term effects.  

President Biden today directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consider actions to expand access to abortion and other reproductive health services through Medicaid.

The Environmental Protection Agency released a list of commercial medical device sterilizing facilities where lifetime risk from ethylene oxide emissions are highest to people who live nearby.

AHA's John Supplitt and Aisha Syeda joined the Rural Health Information Hub’s Exploring Rural Health podcast to discuss rural health care challenges and solutions.

William Daniel "Dan" Barker Jr., who served as chair of the AHA Board of Trustees in 1979 and in various leadership roles over six decades with Emory University Health System, died on his 96th birthday July 21 at his home in Atlanta.

The AHA has elected six new members to its Board of Trustees for three-year terms beginning Jan. 1.