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Vice President Al Gore swore in Jane Henney as the new FDA Commissioner.

Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and others talked about a new report on drug, alcohol, and tobacco use among women and girls. Mathea Falco, President of Drug Strategies, st…

President Bill Clinton announced that the administration would undertake new efforts to move children from foster care to permanent adoptive families.

President Clinton shared his efforts to fight breast cancer and promote research. He also talked about other benefits of the new budget. He argued for the importance of a Patient’s Bill of R…

Administration officials talked with reporters about a new council created to oversee food safety, a task that had been shared by several federal agencies. The council was created by an exec…

HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and National Drug Policy Director General Barry McCaffrey discussed the results of the Annual Survey of U.S. Drug Abuse. Their comments focused on a marked increa…

Two years after the implementation of welfare reform, President Bill Clinton shared a report on how poor families were making the transition from welfare to work. He also announced changes i…

Secretary Donna Shalala talked with reporters about an announcement President Clinton will make later today of a new initiative to protect the health and safety of patients in nursing homes.…

President Clinton announced proposed legislation to improve the health and safety of nursing home residents.

Speakers spoke on the 150th Anniversary of the Women’s Rights Declaration. They spoke about the advances women have made since that declaration. They explained the need for women to remain c…

Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala described the GOP Health Care plan.

Members of the Senate Labor and House Commerce committees heard testimony from administration officials, health care experts and others regarding the allocation of organ donations. Senator B…

First Lady Hillary Clinton talked about the importance of child care quality. She talked about the Democratic Party’s commitment to support affordable and adequate child care for struggling …

Prior to his remarks on the Patient Bill of Rights, President Clinton decried the nuclear test by Pakistan this morning. The president insisted that the United States would impose economic s…

President Clinton commemorated the one year anniversary of the Welfare-to-Work Program, hosting industry leaders and a former welfare recipient. He called on private companies to join in the…

Vice President Al Gore announced new food safety standards that will ensure proper food handling procedures from domestic and foreign sources. The vice president talked about the need for ne…

The Department of the Treasury released the annual report on the status of the Medicare and Social Security trust funds. Secretary Robert Rubin and other members of the Cabinet discussed the…

Surgeon General Satcher released his first report on tobacco as surgeon general. He outlined the health hazards of smoking and the effect it has on younger citizens. President Clinton also m…

President Bill Clinton talked about his child care initiative and promoted private sector efforts for child care in the business world. He also advocated the passage of his child care bill c…

Vice President Gore presided over a town hall meeting on tobacco use with local officials, students, members of Congress from Massachusetts. Participants talked about the detrimental health …