HHS task force cool on reimportation
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A highly anticipated Bush administration report on the safety, effectiveness and viability of prescription-drug reimportation will boost the arguments of those who oppose opening the borders to allow the reimportation of pharmaceuticals.
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LEBANON, N.H. -- It took Laurie Tostenson years of mopping floors, washing sheets and "screaming twice as loud" as the men around her before she managed to change her janitors' scrubs for a blazer befitting a supervisor at New Hampshire's largest hospital.
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A presidential commission examining the care given to wounded U.S. service members yesterday recommended "fundamental changes"  aimed at simplifying the military's convoluted health-care bureaucracy and overhauling the veterans disability system for the first time in more than half a century.
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At the Department of Homeland Security, litigation over new workplace rules is out.
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The Bush administration is trying to fund homeland security "on the cheap," cutting grants to local emergency workers and other programs, the chairman of a House committee said Friday.
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President George W. Bush on Thursday directed the Health and Human Services Department to establish a task force to plan for potential catastrophes like a terrorist attack, pandemic influenza or a natural disaster where there would be a large number of casualties, the White House said on Thursday.
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The US Department of Homeland Security plans to scale back the level of cleanup recommended after detonation of a dirty bomb, policy watchdogs assert.
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The Mugamma building's government offices are being relocated in bid to reduce congestion.
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House members are scattering to their home states this week with inconclusive results on the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan, but momentum is growing at the state level for governments to divest public funds from companies, mostly foreign-based, doing business with...
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By Blackwell Thomas  SPRINGFIELD - Four months after Gov. Rod Blagojevich signed an executive order creating a global warming task force, no members have been announced for the panel and no meetings have been held.
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F red Wertheimer is not what you would call laid-back. Earlier this year, the veteran government reformer canceled a two-week vacation to Sicily so he could attend oral arguments before the Supreme Court in an important campaign finance case -- even though he was not making the arguments himself.
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CONCORD, NH -- Federal health officials posed several questions to the state Thursday about proposed Medicaid changes. Health authorities want to know how the state would set limits on care, how it would decide
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MSPs are calling for the way Holyrood scrutinises red tape to be simplified in a report out on Friday.
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Tommy Thompson said it&#39;s time for him and his family to &quot;move on to the next chapter.&quot;. The Health and Human Services secretary is resigning after four years he calls &quot;challenging but greatly rewarding.
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A study concludes the region's largest health insurer is shirking its legal obligation to support public health needs.
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Hospitals told to start special hiring; Health minister says funding is sign province is in &#39;high gear&#39; against C. diff. Quebec Order of Nurses president Gyslaine Desrosiers told a nursing convention yesterday
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Government lawyers have hampered investigations into suspected waste and fraud at the Department of Homeland Security, officials told a House subcommittee yesterday.