HHS Funds Development of Two Filovirus Vaccines for Biodefense, Public Health

02. October 2019 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will support the simultaneous development of individual vaccine candidates against Marburg virus and Sudan ebolavirus infections. Both diseases are caused by potentially deadly filoviruses, the same family of viruses that includes the Ebola virus currently affecting communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. To help ...

HHS Issues Supplemental Grant Awards to Title X Recipients

01. October 2019 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
Today, the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) announced $33.6 million in fiscal year 2019 funding awards to 50 current Title X grantees in order to supplement their family planning services. The funds awarded were relinquished by grantees that left the Title X program rather than comply with statutory and regulatory requirements prohibiting federal funding where ...