October 23, 2024
CDPH has updated screening guidelines in response to rising syphilis rates in the state. Under the new guidelines healt...
June 25, 2024
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, M.D., today declared firearm violence in America to be a public health crisis, publi...
June 24, 2024
CDC issued a health advisory warning about potential disrupted access to care for individuals taking prescription stimu...
April 02, 2024
The CDC issued a health advisory to inform clinicians and public health officials of an increase in global and domestic...
March 31, 2024
The shortage of Pfizer’s Bicillin L-A (benzathine penicillin G injectable suspension) an antibiotic for syphilis and ot...
March 14, 2024
OCCHE recently launched what it is calling a “catalytic program” to help health care providers and industry stakeholder...
March 07, 2024
CDPH is recommending health care providers consider TB as a cause of respiratory illness.
February 06, 2024
To address the ongoing shortage of Pfizer’s Bicillin L-A (benzathine penicillin G injectable suspension), the U.S. Food...
December 22, 2023
DHCS recently announced that Merck’s new commercial Lagevrio (molnupiravir) COVID-19 anti-viral drug is now a covered M...
November 19, 2023
With RSV season underway in California, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is urging physicians to enc...
November 08, 2023
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has noted a recent increase in mpox cases in California and across th...
August 08, 2023
DHCS recently informed providers that its system is not yet able to appropriately adjudicate claims for the bivalent bo...
December 21, 2022
California and many parts of the US are experiencing a “tripledemic” with flu, SARS-CoV-2, and respiratory syncytial vi...
This fall saw an unprecedented early surge of RSV, as well as early and record-breaking rates of influenza and a new CO...
CDPH is urging health care providers to ask all patients presenting with acute, possibly infectious
November 29, 2022
Although the MPX outbreak has slowed in California, a new CDC report highlights the potential severity of MPX infection...
October 18, 2022
Under the new requirements, physicians and other health care providers must still report patient hospitalizations and d...
September 07, 2022
In a critical next step forward in our country’s COVID-19 vaccination program, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...
August 23, 2022
The latest installment of our monthly Virtual Grand Rounds will be September 13, 2022.
August 09, 2022
Governor Gavin Newsom on August 1, 2022, declared a State of Emergency to bolster the state’s response to the monkeypox...
July 26, 2022
DHCS is now ready to accept Medi-Cal vaccine administration claims for individuals 6 months and older.
June 29, 2022
CDPH has released an advisory for health care providers on the evolving monkeypox outbreak. The advisory includes inf...
June 09, 2022
COVID-19 vaccines for children under age 5 may be available as soon as the end of June. Vaccine preorders are now avail...
April 28, 2022
CDPH is urging health care providers to expand testing for gonorrhea and Disseminated Gonococcal Infection (DGI) follow...
December 09, 2021
CMA President Robert E. Wailes, M.D., issued a statement in response to the stalking and harassment of
October 19, 2021
California recently enacted the ACEs Equity Act to significantly expand health insurance coverage for Adverse Childhood...
October 11, 2021
CMA is collaborating with the California Immunization Coalition and the California Department of Public Health to take ...
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