US science budget: Congress sets upper limits for federal agencies

US federal health agencies questioned over Ebola response.

As US President Barack Obama ramped up the country’s response to the Ebola crisis domestically and abroad (panel), his top health officials attempted, during a tense congressional hearing last week, to address potential solutions to the epidemic ravaging west Africa, which has now reached the USA, confronting emergency medical providers at a well regarded hospital in Dallas, Texas. But the Repu...

Congress and Federal Agencies Address Opioid Abuse Epidemic, But Will New Initiatives Be Successful?

In response to the alarming rate of opioid overdose deaths in the U.S., the President, Congress, and federal agencies are making efforts to reduce the number of fatalities.

from Federal Agencies for 2004 – 2005

Federal Agencies scrutinize lung surgery.

Background: Diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) remains problematic despite many new advanced diagnostic methods. A reliable and rapid diagnostic test, which could be performed in any standard pathology laboratory, would help to obtain definitive early diagnoses of TB. In the present study we describe a prospective evaluation for demonstrating Antigen (Ag) 85 complex in the sera from TB patients. Me...

Federal budget 2012/13.

In 2009, the National Health and Hospital Reform Commission recommended the establishment of a universal dental program for Australia. This recommendation was not implemented and the Australian Government’s 2012/13 budget allocated $515.3million to improve dental services, with something of a shorter term focus on the needs of low income earners. After 16 difficult years for states’ and territo...