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The Health Resources and Services Administration ( HRSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services located in North Bethesda, Maryland. It is the primary federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable. Comprising six bureaus and twelve offices ...
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services set up the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) in 1988 to compensate individuals and families of individuals injured by covered childhood vaccines. [3] The VICP was adopted in response to concerns over the pertussis portion of the DPT vaccine ...
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a passive surveillance program administered jointly by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [38] VAERS is intended to track adverse events associated with vaccines. VAERS collects and analyzes information from reports of adverse ...
Rules and minimum standards for Medicaid redetermination. Adults who are ages 19 to 64, children, parents and caretakers of minor children, and people who are pregnant have their eligibility ...
The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System ( FAERS or AERS) is a computerized information database designed to support the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 's (FDA) postmarketing safety surveillance program for all approved drug and therapeutic biologic products. The FDA uses FAERS to monitor for new adverse events and medication errors that might ...
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday tightened regulations for clinical laboratories with a new rule that gives it more oversight of diagnostic tests developed by them.
The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (Pub. L. No. 96-511, 94 Stat. 2812, codified at 44 U.S.C. §§ 3501 – 3521) is a United States federal law enacted in 1980 designed to reduce the total amount of paperwork burden the federal government imposes on private businesses and citizens. The Act imposes procedural requirements on agencies that wish ...
The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act ( NCVIA) of 1986 (42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34) was signed into law by United States President Ronald Reagan as part of a larger health bill on November 14, 1986. NCVIA's purpose was to eliminate the potential financial liability of vaccine manufacturers due to vaccine injury claims [1] to ensure ...