Sentences with phrase «health administration says»

The Mine Safety and Health Administration says the coal industry employed 98,505 people in 2015, down from 127,745 in 2008 and 250,000 in the 1970s.

The Ashanti Regional Health Administration says, it is adopting measures to bring down the incidence of maternal deaths which continues to be a major headache to the health professionals.

Not exact matches

THE Department of Health says its rollout of a modernised patient administration system is on track, four years after the upgrade was given the green light.

The $ 1.1 billion Alphabet - backed Silicon Valley unicorn 23andMe just pulled off a milestone feat: On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the company could sell its genetic tests and accompanying health risk reports for ten different diseases directly to consumers.

Price, who has presented his own replacement plan, is now turning to a job of managing a massive agency that oversees the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program and other programs, and will be tasked with implementing what Congress ultimately sends him, Childs said.

«Ending the cost - sharing payments would be a clear signal from the Trump administration that they are not aiming to run the ACA marketplace effectively, so insurers would likely just throw up their hands and leave the market,» said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at The Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health - policy think tank.

The Obama administration said October 24 that health - insurance premiums will go up by an average of 25 % in 2017.

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

The same can not be said for the Trump administration's top health officials — a substantial departure from the Obama administration's prominent public information campaigns and unusual considering the federal government is still tasked with enforcing the law.

Entrepreneurs with ideas for health - related businesses typically devise their business plans based on discoveries they made in medical laboratories, or problems they needed to solve in their own jobs (say in hospital administration).

McCracken says the health care failure «did bring people a little more back to reality» about how much and how quickly the administration could enact significant change.

Administration officials say more than 476,000 health insurance applications have been filed through federal and state exchanges.

A spokeswoman for the Food and Drug Administration says the agency «regulates the collection and manufacture of blood and blood components to help protect the health of the blood donor and to ensure the safety, purity and potency of the blood product.»

A reporter from the Health Service Journal said the attack had affected X-ray imaging systems, pathology test results, phone systems and patient administration systems.

Citing data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the National Institute of Drug Abuse, Walmart said some 65 % of opioid abusers get them from unwitting family and friends.

«The Administration has taken several recent steps to demonstrate its commitment to a stable, effective transition that works for consumers, and we look forward to Congress taking additional, much - needed action soon,» said the health insurance trade group AHIP in a statement.

Gary Cohn, President Trump's top economic advisor, said that the effort by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan to jointly address healthcare was the same as the administration was doing by proposing rules to make it easier for self - employed Americans, small businesses and others to band together to get insurance through what are called association health plans.

The health of the economy at the end of four years is a second yardstick by which Buffett said he'd evaluate the Republican Trump administration.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday the administration supports letting customers renew the short - term plans.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the Democrats» sweeping healthcare reform law does not fund abortions, and that no president's administration has since the Hyde Amendment passed more than 30 years ago.

But Boehner continues to say «no» to the Obama administration, most recently on its decision to require Catholic - affiliated employers to cover birth control services in their health plans.

«I have yet to meet a Jewish person who hasn't heard about this,» says Troy, who served as a Bush administration liaison to the Jewish community and was a former deputy secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The government mandate covers all forms of FDA approved contraceptives and the administration has said time and again they felt the policy and its exceptions «struck the right balance» on religious freedoms and providing health care for people who need it.

«The Obama Administration has mandated that all health insurance plans must cover «women's health services» including contraception, sterilization, and abortion - causing medications as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,» the university says.

No health regulatory agency around the globe, including the Food and Drug Administration, has said that 4 - MEI is a human carcinogen.

U.S. Ends Presumed Freedom for Pregnant Immigrants U.S. Ends Presumed Freedom for Pregnant Immigrants U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said on Thursday it would no longer presume that many pregnant women detained by immigration authorities should be released from custody, reversing an Obama - era directive.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines) Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 30, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Medscape Today News Source Type: news

«Based on the entire body of scientific evidence, and the findings of the [Food and Drug Administration] and numerous health authorities and researchers, consumers can continue to safely enjoy foods and beverages in the many forms of packaging provided, including those that contain BPA, without changing their purchasing or eating patterns,» Robert Brackett, chief science officer for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, said in a statement.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Administration for Children & Families says of the percentage of the 3.3 million referrals for child abuse and neglect in 2009 it investigated, «Two - thirds of reports found all allegations to be unsubstantiated or intentionally false (64.3 % and 0.1 %, respectively).»

So what parents want most out of a device like Mimo — protection from SIDS — is exactly what the Food and Drug Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the CDC, the National Institutes of Health, Britain's National Health Service, and even the device manufacturers themselves say it can't do.

Schumer said the Trump administration's proposed 2018 budget would cut funding for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health by more than 40 percent.

In its analysis of administration cost savings caused by the Public Bodies Reform programme, the National Audit Office (NAO) decided to exclude bodies associated with the Department of Health (the department subject to the largest administration cost changes), saying «the major reorganisation and transfer of functions between NHS bodies since 2010 made the analysis too problematic» (NAO 2014, p. 40).

«As Mayor, my administration has made improving the physical and mental health of all our residents a top priority, but in order to effectively do this, we must ensure that our medical infrastructure is properly staffed with high - quality health care professionals — especially nurses,» de Blasio said.

Cutting nearly $ 1 trillion from Medicaid will give states the freedom to tailor the program to suit their needs, Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said, as he defended a narrowly passed House bill that aims to undo parts of the health care law enacted by the previous administrHealth and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said, as he defended a narrowly passed House bill that aims to undo parts of the health care law enacted by the previous administrhealth care law enacted by the previous administration.

The Obama administration released a lengthy report this morning on the progress individual states have made on the implementation of the health care law approved in 2009 and, rather impishly, quotes Republican Sen. James Seward saying the measure has the backing of business.

Amid the outcry over the Florida school shootings, the Trump administration says it is «actively exploring» ways to help states expand inpatient mental health treatment using Medicaid funds.

In a statement, the Sanders campaign said TPC «wildly overestimates the cost of Senator Sanders» health care plan,» saying that the center «underestimates the savings in administration, paperwork, and prescription drug prices» that the U.S. might realize under Sanders» plan.

She said the Trump administration is poised to rescind Obamacare and take away people's health insurance, as well as cut Medicaid, which would greatly affect the state budget, and perhaps deport some undocumented immigrants.

The Democrat's administration says it will be up to state health officials to decide where to make the reductions, which are intended to make public health spending more efficient.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said «no decision's been made» on whether to continue key Affordable Care Act subsidies to health - insurance companies, but the administration's job is «to follow the law of the land.&Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said «no decision's been made» on whether to continue key Affordable Care Act subsidies to health - insurance companies, but the administration's job is «to follow the law of the land.&health - insurance companies, but the administration's job is «to follow the law of the land.»

A Trump administration official said the administration wanted to stabilize health insurance markets, but refused to say if the government would promote enrollment this fall under the Affordable Care Act or pay for the activities of counselors who help people sign up for coverage.

Homeless advocates want the roadmap to touch on the issue, and McCray has said that mental health problems are exacerbated when people are stressed about losing their home, but the city's power to solve the problem is limited by how much it is willing to spend, and a distant relationship with the Cuomo administration.

Speaking at the certificate presentation ceremony of the TBAs held at the Adeyemi Bero Auditorium, Alausa Secretariat, Governor Ambode said that one of the cardinal points of his administration was to make traditional birth attendants a relevant factor in child care delivery, hence the urgent need to improve the skill of the traditional health attendants to reduce maternal mortality.

The House passed a measure in a 230 - 188 vote that would reverse a last - minute rule from the Obama administration that said conservative states can't block the women's health and abortion provider from receiving family planning dollars under the Title X program.

Hammond also said a provision in the House GOP plan to prohibit people from using the tax credits to buy insurance that covers abortion also bumps up against a Cuomo administration policy requiring state - regulated health plans to cover such procedures.

«We are having frank conversations at multiple levels of the Cuomo administration to highlight the growing burden of the Health Republic shutdown on providers,» Health Care Association of New York State said in a statement to its members.

The administration also said it would automatically enroll Health Republic customers into another insurer, though the details of how exactly the state will do that have not yet been released.

Although a 50 percent cut in funding from New York State prompted Ulster County to shift administration of mental health clinics to a privately operated agency, the county still has mental health resources available for families and adolescents, said county Health Commissioner Dr. Carol health clinics to a privately operated agency, the county still has mental health resources available for families and adolescents, said county Health Commissioner Dr. Carol health resources available for families and adolescents, said county Health Commissioner Dr. Carol Health Commissioner Dr. Carol Smith.

Joe Seeman, a MoveOn organizer from Saratoga County, said the protest was aimed at defeating Buerkle in the November election and preserving the Affordable Care Act, the health care program passed under the Obama administration.

In his testimony, Mr. Fuleihan said the administration would fight for savings in city workers» health care costs, but otherwise refused to discuss how he would fund the retroactive pay hikes many unions are demanding, in addition to regular raises.

Lawsky said his department, in coordination with the rest of Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration, is considering ways to use its regulatory authority to change how insurers pay doctors and health care providers.