The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the principal agency in this country devoted to protecting the health of Americans and to providing essential human services, especially for those who have difficulty helping themselves....

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for the welfare, safety, and health of United States citizens. Among other programs, HHS administers drug safety standards, prevents epidemics, and offers assistance to those who...

Human health—and human disease—have always been intimately connected to the environment. The environment contains the positive, in the form of air, water, and nutrients, and the negative, in the form of bacteria, viruses, and toxins....

The United States Department of Health and Human Services, often abbreviated HHS, is a Cabinet department of the United States government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services. The department was...

If you thought it was challenging keeping up with emerging employee privacy rules on every front, prepare yourself for the new medical privacy regulations. Recently, the U.S. Department of Health arid Human Services (DHHS) issued the final regulations governing medical privacy rights for...

After protests by governors led CMS to withdraw a plan to require states to submit their Medicaid budgets in advance (OAR, Feb. 27, p. 63), the agency is working on a revised proposal, but several Democratic lawmakers are working to kill the plan...