More than $23 million will be awarded over the next four years. The grants have been award through the Orphan Products Clinical Trials Grants Program.
The updated plan lists three strategic goals that include objectives and performance metrics to measure progress.
The grants are targeted at older adults that are unemployed or low-income.
The final day of the expo focused on the products.
We'll know a lot more about the 2017 legislative and regulatory outlook on Nov. 9, 2016, once the presidential election is decided.
The National Safety Council presented the 2016 Robert W. Campbell Award to USG Corporation at this year's annual conference.
The 2017 National Safety Congress & Expo will take place Sept. 23-29 in downtown Indianapolis.
Charlie Morecraft and Scott Geller urged their audience to actively care for co-workers and take safety responsibility personally. The afternoon keynote's speakers warned that workplace violence can happen anywhere, so be prepared.
Lots of awards are handed out during the biggest U.S. safety show of the year.
Day 2 featured more quality demos and packed educational sessions.
HHS says the final rule allows the program to better support physicians and hospitals – the vast majority of whom use certified electronic health records – and the fast pace of innovation in health IT.
Data and technology will help us meet the council's goal, she says at the opening general session of the 2016 NSC conference.
The board will discuss open investigations, the status of audits from the Office of the Inspector General, financial and organizational updates, and a review of the agency's action plan.
Acting Director of Program Development at the DOT explained the risks associated with underground pipelines.
"We face an uphill battle to reach the global targets for tuberculosis," said Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO's outgoing director general. "There must be a massive scale-up of efforts or countries will continue to run behind this deadly epidemic and these ambitious goals will be missed."
Only two reasons are acceptable for working energized, NECA national safety director Wesley Wheeler said.
The agency is a new partner in the “Let Girls Learn” initiative.