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HHS Secretary Donna Shalala talked about her position as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services as well as her career prior to serving in Washington, DC. She talked about he…

HHS Secretary Donna Shalala and National Drug Control Policy Director General Barry McCaffrey briefed reporters on a recent survey of teen drug use by the University of Michigan. The report …

President Clinton signed the FDA Modernization Act of 1997. In his remarks, the president stressed the vice president’s and his administration’s commitment to reforming government agencies a…

The co-chairs of the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry, briefed reporters on the details of the commission’s recommendations on consumer heal…

President Clinton signed H.R. 867, passed by Congress last week, which makes the adoption process faster and makes it easier to remove children from abusive families. Mrs. Clinton told the s…

Participants celebrated the beginning of construction on the Mark Hatfield Clinical Research Center, part of the National Institutes of Health. Vice President Al Gore was among the dignitari…

President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton, administration officials, pediatricians and others discussed the challenges facing the U.S. child care system. They examined the qualit…

President Bill Clinton talked about his administration’s review of the proposed tobacco lawsuit settlement. He was joined by Vice President Al Gore, members of the Cabinet, lawmakers and hea…

President Clinton proposed new rules that would require drug manufacturers to test their products for child safety and provide prescription information to pediatricians. The president talked…

Secretary Shalala talked about privacy in patient health care information. She called privacy one of the most serious aspects of the health care system and said our medical records “are our …

Secretary Shalala and Mr. Reed met with reporters following a meeting at the White House concerning the tobacco industry settlement. Mr. Reed said that the goal of reducing child smoking is …

Secretary Shalala and Mr. Reed met with reporters following a meeting at the White House regarding the tobacco industry settlement and its implementation. They met with former tobacco employ…

Secretary Donna Shalala and Bruce Reed met with reporters following a meeting with tobacco industry officials. Mr. Reed said the settlement was a “real opportunity” that still needed to be s…

President Bill Clinton announced that he would support legislation which prohibited insurance companies from discriminating against healthy people with certain genetic dispositions in health…

After their meeting,Domestic Policy Council Director, Bruce Reed and Health and Human Services Secretary, Donna Shalala, and several representatives of public health groups talked about th…

Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater addressed the College Democrats of America Annual Meeting. They spoke about their positions withi…

After meeting with Vice President Gore and others, administration officials and Mr. Koop and Mr. Kessler talked about their advisory group’s report on the priorities in any tobacco settlemen…

Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Bruce Reed and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala briefed reporters on the White House inter-agency review of the tobacco settle…

Mayors and other local law enforcement officials heard from administration officials as well as commanders from the Interagency Drug Task force concerning the federal role in drug control. A…

Vice President Al Gore and administration officials announced the findings of a new administration report on ways to improve food safety. Laurie Girand described her daughter’s near-fatal in…