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4 Aug 2020, 9:01 am by Duygu Cicek
However, in the US, the Department of Health and Human Services has implemented an order to suspend the introduction of persons into the US from certain countries and requiring their immediate repatriation. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 5:22 pm
--The board shall be composed of not less than 15 and not more than 21 members appointed by the President, of whom-- (A) not less than 1 shall-- (i) be a representative of the interests of academic, business, and nonprofit organizations; and (ii) have expertise in-- (I) the field of nanotechnology; or (II) administering award competitions; and (B) not less than 1 shall be from each of-- (i) the Department of Energy; (ii) the Environmental Protection Agency; (iii) the Food and Drug… [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 7:50 am
In conjunction with the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, Maine Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, the New York State Department of Health, and New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets, two (2) case-patients have been identified in Maine, as well as one (1) case-patient in New York with a rare, indistinguishable PFGE pattern as determined by PFGE subtyping in PulseNet. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 3:21 pm by Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU
In Overruling FDA on Plan B, Sebelius Puts Politics Before Scientific Evidence On Wednesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius took the unprecedented step of overruling the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to allow the emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step to be sold over-the-counter to consumers of all ages. [read post]
24 Jul 2015, 6:49 am
Any system intended to protect the health and well-being of patients must be designed to foresee and block the kind of human error that happened here. [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 11:46 am
A flurry of news stories the last few weeks about the dismal safety record of U.S. nursing homes has renewed interested in beefing up inspections where 1 in 3 patients in skilled nursing facilities suffers a medication error, infection or some harm related to treatment, according to a government report by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). [read post]
13 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by John Cannan
In 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a spreadsheet containing new fractions to calculate FY 2012 hospital Medicare reimbursements, negatively affecting a number of hospitals. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 1:30 pm by WWF&G
Department of Health and Human Services, Pfizer's $2.3 billion settlement is the largest in the Justice Department's history of handing health care fraud cases. [read post]
12 Sep 2020, 11:40 am by John Timmer
(credit: Getty Images) Political appointees in the Department of Health and Human services are objecting to reports on the COVID-19 pandemic from the Centers for Disease Control, and are trying to exercise editorial control of future reports. [read post]
26 Jun 2010, 9:00 pm by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
  To support the NHTD theme "Take the test, take control," the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Association of People with AIDS, and many other organizations and individuals across the country are offering HIV testing and educational events. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 11:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) smoking cessation website at SmokeFree.gov. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 2:30 am by Jon L. Gelman
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Kelly, clinic physicians and responders and survivors at the ceremony. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 7:51 am
  Penalties for using patient information without prior consent could be subject to financial penalties as high as $250,000 or 10 years in jail, and the Department of Health and Human Services recently announced that it will conduct surprise audits of HIPAA compliance in hospitals. [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 8:20 am
Department of Health and Human Services, includes some 460,000 records of malpractice lawsuits whose judgments total $69.7 billion. [read post]
31 May 2011, 1:04 pm by Gina M. Cavalier
Today the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking implementing provisions of the HITECH Act related to accounting for disclosures of protected health information (PHI). [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 1:32 pm
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Maine Department of Health and Human Services have put together a website to educate Mainers on the symptoms and preventative care for both the seasonal and H1N1 flu. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 6:30 am by Robert David Malove
MIAMI, FLORIDA (May 24, 2011) - The Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced that Obel Martinez and Damaris Gil, a married couple, pled guilty to health care fraud in their scheme to bilk Medicare of $1,089,234 in fraudulent claims. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 9:01 am
In 2002, the Department of Health and Human Services amended the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to eliminate the consent requirement of accessing medical records as it relates to treatment, payment or health care operations. [read post]