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The Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1987 (Public Law100-71, Section 503, 5 U.S.C. 7301 note) further outlined the general provisions for Federal drug testing programs, and directed the Secretary of HHS to set comprehensive standards for all aspects of laboratory drug testing. Today, the ...
Monkeypox disease is caused by infection with the monkeypox virus, an orthopoxvirus belonging to the same poxviridae family as variola and vaccinia viruses. Monkeypox disease was initially diagnosed in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and has since spread to other countries in...
In the end, the patients enrolled did not receive adequate treatment for syphilis even when penicillin was established as the treatment of choice for syphilis. In 1972, the Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs appointed a panel to review the study practices (CDC, n.d.). The ...
Restrictions on drug importation stem from the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act but authorization of importation can be made by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. During the Trump administration a number of states passed laws to develop a drug importation programs, however, none ...
At issue is the so-called risk corridors, a three-year stabilization program set forth in Section 1342 of the ACA intended to encourage insurers to participate in the ACA by capping financial losses. The program required the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to administer a payment...
For further analysis on lobbying registration and disclosure, see CRS Report RL34377,Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007: The Role of the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate, by [author name scrubbed]; CRS Report RL34725,"Political" Activities of Private Recipients...
“We no longer agree that the FDA safety and effectiveness standards alone are sufficient to support open-ended Medicare coverage,”states the proposed rulesigned by CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. Health industry ...
In the fall of 2001, the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) asked the Center for Health Services Research and Policy in the School of Public Health and Health Services, The George Washington University...
Research and Evaluation:The bill would establish a Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing Poverty with the goal of reducing poverty by half in ten years. The working group would be chaired by the Secretary of Health and Human Services and led by a Staff Director of National Poverty Policy...