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Medicare beneficiaries sent empty envelopes
June 8, 2005 The government's effort to educate low-income Medicare beneficiaries about prescription drug benefits might lead to confusion instead. An unknown number of intended recipients found only empty envelopes in their mailboxes. After its first mass-mailing late last month -- part of a complicated effort to reach 4.7 million low-income beneficiaries -- ...
Panel chief calls for streamlining NIH structure
March 17, 2005 House Energy and Commerce Chairman Joe Barton, R-Texas, and National Institutes of Health Director Elias Zerhouni offered competing visions Thursday about how to restructure the massive biomedical research establishment. Zerhouni's appearance before the panel's Health Subcommittee was in anticipation of the first reauthorization for NIH since 1993, which Barton said ...
FCC asked to investigate agencies' video news releases
March 17, 2005 Senate Commerce ranking member Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, has urged the Federal Communications to investigate the use of government-produced video news releases by local broadcasters that do not provide attribution. Clips of videos created by federal agencies have been broadcast frequently on local news programs without reference to the fact that ...
Witnesses spar over FDA's effectiveness on drug safety
March 3, 2005 The FDA needs to fundamentally change the way it approves and monitors the safety of drugs, witnesses told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Thursday. But a top FDA official said the agency already is moving to correct lapses that led to the withdrawal of the painkiller Vioxx ...
Gingrich calls for 'virtual public health service'
July 15, 2004 As the Bush administration prepares for next week's unveiling of its strategy for updating the nation's information technology infrastructure for health care, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., told a House subcommittee Wednesday that the effort needs to come much faster than many anticipate. "Paper kills," Gingrich told the House ...
Lawmaker weighs bill to address NIH conflicts of interest
July 8, 2004 House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Greenwood, R-Pa., said Thursday he is considering drafting legislation to address findings of potential conflicts of interest at the National Institutes of Health. An investigation of NIH has uncovered cases of questionable awards and speaking fees given to scientists involved ...
NIH under fire for alleged conflicts of interest
May 13, 2004 Angry members of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee threatened Wednesday to address allegations of conflicts of interest at the National Institutes of Health if the agency does not address the matter soon. At that hearing, Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Greenwood, R-Pa., accused lawyers from ...
HHS chief unveils electronic medical records initiative
May 7, 2004 Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson Thursday announced a series of initiatives aimed at speeding up development and implementation of a national infrastructure for electronic medical records and vowed the federal government would beat President Bush's call last month for every patient to have an electronic record within 10 ...
Ex-Medicare chiefs say agency managers face massive task
April 8, 2004 Two former Medicare heads -- one Democrat and one Republican -- warned a Senate subcommittee today that the agency faced an immense task implementing last year's Medicare law in time for a January 2006 launch of the new drug benefit, and suggested that Congress and the administration develop a contingency ...
HHS chief requests probe of Medicare employee's allegations
March 17, 2004 Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, noting "there seems to be a cloud over our department" in light of recent reports and allegations concerning its handling of the new Medicare law, moved Tuesday to answer at least some of the complaints and requests aimed at him from Capitol Hill. ...
