Prevention Policy Matters Weekly Updates 09/17/2018 Weekly Updates Leveraging Laws and Policies to Help Achieve Healthy People 2020 Objectives 09/13/2018 12:25 PM EDT Law and policy are among...

    Keeping Faith: Bringing Hope and Healing in the Midst of the Opioid Crisis By:  Vice Adm. Jerome M. Adams M.D., M.P.H. , Surgeon General of the United States Summary: Surgeon General...

  RIDOH Accepting Laboratory Applications for Sampling and Testing Medical Marijuana As part of work to ensure patient safety, the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) is now accepting...

  A Survivor and a Responder: Hurricane Florence By: Lt. Cmdr. Michael Muni, U. S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Summary:  An officer in the Public Health Service writes about his...

  Strong social networks help to eliminate barriers to economic opportunity By: Clarence H. Carter, Director, Office of Family Assistance Summary: Circles USA and Open Table aims to boost the...

  OCR Issues Guidance to Help Ensure Equal Access to Emergency Services and the Appropriate Sharing of Medical Information During Hurricane Florence As Hurricane Florence makes landfall, the HHS...