Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an additional $487 million to supplement first-year funding through its State Opioid Response (SOR) grant program. The awards to states and territories are part of HHS’s Five-Point Opioid Strategy and the Trump administration’s tireless drive to combat the opioid crisis. Together with the $933 million in ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new members to its Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). The council will meet on March 14, 2019, from 1 p.m. to 5p.m., and on March 15, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The two-day meeting will take place at the Hubert H. Humphrey Building, 200 ...
Today, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar issued the following statement on President Trump’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget: “The President’s budget makes necessary investments and bold reforms to deliver on HHS’s mission, and supports the hard work the men and women of HHS are already doing to improve the health and well-being of the ...
Today, President Trump proposed $291 million in the FY2020 HHS budget to begin his Administration’s multi-year initiative focused on ending the HIV epidemic in America by 2030. This new initiative aims to reduce new HIV infections by 75 percent in the next 5 years and by 90 percent in the next 10 years, averting more ...
HHS Secretary Alex Azar issued the following statement regarding the service of Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, who announced his planned resignation on Tuesday (effective in one month): “All of us at HHS are proud of the remarkable work Commissioner Gottlieb has done at the FDA. He has been an exemplary public health leader, ...
To increase national health security against biothreats and protect public health, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will partner with Public Health Vaccines LLC of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to develop a potential vaccine against Marburg virus. No licensed vaccine for this virus exists today. The Marburg virus is part of the family of ...
On February 22, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule to revise the regulations governing the Title X family planning program. Background Title X is the only federal program dedicated solely to the provision of family planning and related preventive services tailored to individual needs, with priority given to those ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today issued the final rule to revise the regulations governing the Title X family planning program, which focuses on serving low-income Americans. The final rule ensures compliance with statutory program integrity provisions governing the program and, in particular, the statutory prohibition on funding programs where abortion ...
More than a million first responders and emergency managers in the United States now have a science-based chemical decontamination decision tool and updated guidance on how best to decontaminate a massive number of people after chemical exposure. The decision-support tool and guidance, as well as the scientific studies on which they are based, were completed ...
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center), which tests innovative payment and service delivery models to lower costs and improve the quality of care, announced a new payment model for emergency ambulance services that aims to allow Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) beneficiaries to receive the ...
