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Many health care professionals and scientists expressed outrage after the CDC released a draft of its proposals in June, concluding that N95 face masks are equivalent to looser, surgical face masks in certain settings.

Employee Fiduciary, a small business retirement plan advisory, called on the DOL to make fees more transparent for plan participants, in response to a feedback request on its new SECURE 2.0 Reporting and Disclosure requirements.

Hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID have risen in recent weeks, with roughly 7,300 people dying of the disease in the past 3 months, however, data suggests that the people getting shots are often not those most at risk.

Spurred by the sharp rise in email messaging during the pandemic, a growing number of health systems have started charging patients when physicians send replies to their messages.

There are still many questions about how to integrate artificial intelligence into health care systems, however, the race is on: The Mayo Clinic is integrating a chatbot into its system.

The Biden administration asked the high court on Sept. 8 to uphold broad access to mifepristone, the widely used abortion pill, seeking a review of a ruling that would bar mail-order prescriptions and require in-person doctor visits.

The CDC committee, which sets U.S. vaccination policy and helps determine insurance coverage for vaccines, will vote on the question Tuesday as it weighs the benefits of updated vaccines from Pfizer, Moderna, and Novavax.

CMS has proposed speeding up the response times for authorization, but some desperate patients have turned to publicly shaming insurance companies on social media to get tests, drugs, and treatments approved.