President Signs 'National Veterinary Medical Service Act' and 'Captive Wildlife Safety Act'

National Health Service Act, 1946

Under Section 20 (2) of the National Health Service Act, Local Authorities are required to serve copies of their Schemes for carrying out the duties imposed on them, to every voluntary organization providing in their areas services of the kind concerned. Copies of the Schemes dealing with the Mental Health Service (Sections 28 and 51) were therefore submitted to the National Association for Men...

The patient safety act.

By now most of our readers have become well acquainted with the Patient Protection and Af ford able Care Act (PPACA), which Congress passed in March 2010. No doubt your institution is working hard to grapple with the implications of these changes. Somehow lost in the background noise of the PPACA was the earlier passage of the federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (the Patient Safe...

Radiation safety: time to act

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.

for working men and women; by authorizing enforcement of the standards developed under the Act; by assisting and encouraging the States in their efforts to assure safe and healthful working conditions; by providing for research, information, education, and training in the field of occupational safety and health; and for other purposes.

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.