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It became the National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention in 1996. [21] The National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases was spun off from the Center for Prevention Services in 1993 as the National Immunization Program. [22] It gained its current name in 2006 as part of the Futures Initiative. [19] [23]
AHRQ headquarters at 5600 Fishers Lane in Rockville, Maryland. The 2015 budget for AHRQ was US$440 million, [8] $24 million less than FY 2014. The budget includes $334 million in Public Health Service (PHS) Evaluation Funds, a decrease of $30 million from FY 2014, and $106 million from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Trust Fund, an ...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the Federal authority for patient safety and quality of care and has been a leader in pediatric quality and safety. AHRQ has developed Pediatric Quality Indicators (PedQIs) with the goal to highlight areas of quality concern and to target areas for further analysis. [122]
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is a central government organization which collects public reports of health quality evaluation to increase the safety and quality of health care. AHRQ works together with the United States Department of Health and Human Services to make ensure that evidence is understood and used by the ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) posted a recent update on food safety and bird flu, noting that eating uncooked or undercooked poultry or beef, or drinking raw milk, can "make ...
Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a human neutrophil ingesting MRSA. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a group of gram-positive bacteria that are genetically distinct from other strains of Staphylococcus aureus. MRSA is responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans.
Prevention, 2006). Estimates of annual deaths attributable to obesity in the United States range between 280,000 and 400,000, ranking obesity as the second leading preventable cause of death, just behind tobacco use (David B. Allison et al.1999 and Ali H. Mokdad et al. 2004).
(Reuters) -The Louisiana Department of Health said on Friday it has detected the first presumptive positive human case of H5N1 bird flu infection in the U.S. state.