HHS’s Funding $22 Billion To Support Testing And Vaccination
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced two upcoming actions by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide more than…
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NIH Research On COVID-19 Patients’ Brains
On December 30, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced about National Institutes of Health (NIH) research results. In an in-depth study…
Federal Health IT Strategic Plan
Recently the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the final 2020-2025 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (the Plan). The Plan outlines federal…
Pharmacy Groups Support for Childhood Vaccines
A few days ago the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it is allowing state-licensed pharmacists to administer childhood vaccines to children…
Permission to Administer Childhood Vaccinations
On August 19 Pharmacy organizations were claiming victory after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stated about their decision to allow all state-licensed…
HHS VS Opioid Crisis
On August 6th media was reported that the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded more than $101 million to fight opioid…
APhA COVID Data Recent Update
The up-to-date direction needs laboratories making COVID-19 testing under a CLIA Certificate of Waiver—including pharmacies enrolled as the autonomous clinical labs—to state test results and…
Current HHS COVID-19 Guidance
Business groups are praising different directions from the Department of Health and Human Services. The National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the National Community…
Healthcare Reform Effects On Pharmacies
On March 21, 2010, the Congress passed the legislation called “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”. President Obama signed it and since March 23,…
Pharmacy Personnel Disaster Preparedness Role Is Redesigned By HHS
The federal government is changing its master plan regarding all the disasters, after the impact of Hurricane Katrina, which impacted Louisiana in 2005. Local hospital…