Heidelberger Health Score HHS 3.0

Michael Heidelberger, 1933

How Heidelberger and Avery sweetened immunology

In 1923, a young chemist-turned-microbiologist and his mentor made the startling discovery that bacterial sugars could be targeted by the immune system--a groundbreaking finding that helped launch the field of immunochemistry.

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and 30-Day Mortality: The CANADA Score

HHS/CDC Legal Response to SARS Outbreak

Before the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) legal authority to apprehend, detain, or conditionally release persons was limited to seven listed diseases, not including SARS, and could only be changed using a two-step process: 1) executive order of the President of the United States on recommendation by the Secretary, U.S. D...

Medicare and State health care programs: fraud and abuse; OIG anti-kickback provisions--HHS. Final rule.

This final rule implements section 14 of Public Law 100-93, the Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987, by specifying various payment practices which, although potentially capable of inducing referrals of business under Medicare or a State health care program, will be protected from criminal prosecution or civil sanctions under the anti-kickback provisions of the statute.