Advisory Board December 2, 2025
FDA has added a boxed warning and limited the use of a gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy after receiving reports of fatal liver injuries, in today’s bite-sized hospital and health industry news from the District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, and Maryland.
- District of Columbia/Illinois: The American Hospital Association (AHA) and several federal agencies, including the FBI, HHS, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, are warning hospitals and health systems about the ransomware group Akira, which has extorted over $244 million from victims. Although Akira has historically focused on Cisco environments, the group recently expanded its tactics and techniques. “Akira relies primarily on brute force attacks on virtual private networks without multifactor authentication enabled to gain initial access,...







