Department of Health and Human Services

noun

the department of the U.S. government that administers federal programs dealing with public health, welfare, and income security: created in 1979 from the reorganized Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. : HHS

A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the Social Security Administration , the Public Health Service, and other programs designed to promote public welfare. It was originally called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, until the separate Department of Education was created in 1979.

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Neither the Office of Refugee Resettlement nor the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the office, responded to requests from The Times.

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After that, the Department of Health and Human Services said, it will work with industry to eliminate six petroleum-based food dyes: blue 1, blue 2, green 3, red 40, yellow 5 and yellow 6.

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The BBC has contacted the state health department and the US Department of Health and Human Services for confirmation.

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Thus, gutting the Department of Health and Human Services’ infectious disease research and forcing out the FDA’s chief vaccine expert is exactly what it looks like: an effort to see that more Americans die.

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Department of Health and Human Services, according to a news release from the administration.

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