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June 29, 2020
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On Monday, the Department of Health and Human Services
announced an agreement to secure large supplies of the drug remdesivir
for the United States from Gilead Sciences through September, allowing
American hospitals to purchase the drug in amounts allocated by HHS and
state health departments. Read full news release »
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June 26, 2020
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On Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services,
in response to a request from the State of Texas, granted a 14-day
extension of federal support for five Community-Based Testing Sites
(CBTS) in Texas. Read full news release »
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June 26, 2020
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Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is announcing that it has
reached an early case resolution with the state of Tennessee after it
updated its crisis standards of care (“CSC”) plan to ensure that the
criteria does not discriminate against persons based on disability or
age. Read full news release »
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June 25, 2020
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Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
and the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) published an updated solid
organ transplant guideline to assess donors and monitor recipients
for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus, and
hepatitis C virus infections. Read full news release »
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June 25, 2020
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On June 25, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
Ministry of Health officially announced the end of the Ebola outbreak
in the eastern DRC that has been ongoing since August 2018. Read full news release »
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June 23, 2020
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On Tuesday, the United States District Court for the
District of Columbia granted summary judgment to the Department of
Health and Human Services in a challenge to the Trump Administration’s
new hospital price transparency requirements, which are scheduled to
take effect January 2021. Read full news release »
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June 23, 2020
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Today, the Administration for Community
Living (ACL) and the Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Health launched the MENTAL Health
Challenge to combat the social isolation and loneliness that older
adults, people with disabilities and veterans often experience. Read full news release »
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June 23, 2020
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Office of Minority Health (OMH) announced the selection of the
Morehouse School of Medicine as the awardee for a new $40 million
initiative to fight COVID-19 in racial and ethnic minority, rural and socially
vulnerable communities. Read full news release »
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