The United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released his Parting Prescription for America, weaving together reflections on his personal and professional experiences having spent six of the last ten years as our nation’s Surgeon General.
HHS announced it would award $306 million dollars to continue its H5N1 Avian Flu response. While CDC’s assessment of the risk of avian influenza to the general public remains low, USDA and HHS continue to closely collaborate with Federal, State, local, industry and other stakeholders to protect human health, animal health, and food safety.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, recently awarded $10 million for the Community-Based Maternal Behavioral Health Services Program, a new grant program supporting the behavioral health of pregnant and postpartum women.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Office of Global Affairs, launched a new Global Strategy that expands the Department’s focus, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, from not only responding to disease and outbreaks but increased emphasis on improving foundational support and proactively making communities healthier.
The Surgeon General released a new report on health disparities related to tobacco use, which finds that despite the nation’s substantial progress in reducing cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke exposure in the overall U.S. population, that progress has not been equal for all population groups.
HHS introduces new requirements for maternal safety standards, eliminates barriers to care for underserved communities.
NAPAHPI is a flexible, scalable, and cross-sectoral platform to strengthen regional capacities for prevention, preparedness, and response to a broad range of health security threats that builds on lessons learned from COVID-19 and other health security events in the last decade.
HRSA announced $240 million in awards to launch and expand mental health and substance use disorder services in more than 400 community health centers across the country that care for more than 10 million people.
This challenge, the latest initiative from the Kidney Innovation Accelerator (KidneyX), aims to seize opportunities for sustainability by identifying and supporting solutions to reduce the resource demands of maintenance dialysis.
The departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury took significant action recently by issuing final rules to clarify and strengthen protections to expand equitable access to these benefits as compared to medical and surgical benefits and reduce barriers to accessing these services.
United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released a Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents, highlighting the urgent need to better support parents, caregivers, and families to help our communities thrive.
Twenty-eight years ago, President Bill Clinton signed this historic bipartisan legislation into law. HIPAA ushered in many needed health care reforms. Today, HIPAA is best associated with requiring, for the first time, a set of standards for safeguarding the privacy and security of individually identifiable health information; it is administered and enforced by OCR.
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