Department of Health and Human Services

The Department of Health and Human Services.

Hypertension and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Hypertension affects from 17% to 25% of all Americans. Because of its fundamental charge to help protect the public health, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is substantially concerned with the condition. Additionally, hypertension represents a significant source of underwriting risk to which HHS is exposed in its role as health insurer of the poor and the elderly. HHS has inves...

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is issuing this final rule establishing that certain active ingredients used in nonprescription (also known as overthe-counter or OTC) antiseptic products intended for use by health care professionals in a hospital setting or other health care situations outside the hospital are not generally recognized as safe and effective (GRAS/GRAE)....

CHIS Studies NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Objectives: This study demonstrates serious under-ascertainment of maternal mortality through death certificate reporting alone, and presents selected statistics by cause of death and demographic groups based on an enhanced surveillance method. Methods: All death records for women ages 10-50 were matched to live birth and fetal death files to identify deaths that occurred within one year after ...

SCHS Studies NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Objectives: The objective of this study is to quantify the extent of limited health care access among three risk groups: (1) people with chronic illnesses, (2) those with high-risk behaviors or with high-risk conditions and (3) those who fail to comply with recommended preventive health care practices. Methods: We used 1997-2000 survey data from the North Carolina Behavioral Risk Factor Surveil...