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NIH Director Collins: an old hand in a new job

A noted scientist takes on a new role at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Dr. Francis Collins is sworn in as the 16th director of NIH as swine flu prepares to make its return to the northern hemisphere, and as the economic stimulus provides a financial respite from the ups and downs of finding money for scientific research.

Tags: newsstand , mngt , NIH , Dr. Francis Collins

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Meet the Innovators: AIDS.gov

Tags: Meet the Innovators , Innovators , AIDS.gov , Miguel Gomez

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Stimulus IT rules leave some feeling exposed

Tags: stimulus , technology , health IT , Shaw, Bransford, Veilleux and Roth

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Chopra on EHR

Tags: tech , Aneesh Chopra , electronic health records ,

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Committee to set standards for health IT in three areas

HHS also preparing to further implement nationwide health network for at least five agencies.

Tags: technology , David Riley , Office of National Coordinator for Health IT , health IT , Standards committee , Policy committee , NHIN , Open source software

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Looking at lessons learned from H1N1 flu response

Tags: Federal Impact , Mike Leavitt , swine flu , H1N1

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Pandemic response

Tags: CDC , swine flu , Betsy McCaughey , Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths

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Vacancies at HHS exposed by swine flu

Tags: management , CDC , swine flu , Washington Post , Ed O'Keefe

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Donna Shalala on what's ahead at HHS

A former Secretary weighs in on what the future holds for Kathleen Sebelius.

Tags: transition , Donna Shalala , Kathleen Sebelius , health care

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OFPP trying to stem the use of cost-plus contracting

Cost-type contracts nearly double over the last eight years.

Tags: contracting , OFPP , DoD , DoE , NASA , DHS , Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Co , Cost-type contracting

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