Secretary Michael Leavitt

Browse > Home / BREAKING NEWS , FDA- Pharmaceutical news , Health and Fitness , PRESS RELEASE , U.S.A. Government / HHS Officials Mark Opening of First U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office in Latin America. January 7, 2009 Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America WASHINGTON (RushPRNews)January 7, 2009 -HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Joxel García and HHS Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., are in Costa Rica today to mark the opening of an HHS/FDA office to serve Latin America, which completes another step in the President’s Action Plan on Import Safety. The ... Read Full Story

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Few governors know the pitfalls of soaring health costs better than Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, which helps explain why President Barack Obama is reportedly considering the Democrat for health secretary. In 2005, Bredesen cut 170,000 adults from Tennessee's Medicaid program, called TennCare. He reduced benefits for thousands more. Critics describe Bredesen's actions as the biggest cuts in public health insurance in the nation's history. They believe he's the wrong person to lead an effort to expand health insurance coverage, and they're throwing support behind other candidates, including Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, widely viewed as near the top of Obama's list of candidates to run ... Read Full Story

A jet leased by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for use in emergencies has instead been used to shuttle the secretary of Health and Human Services to appearances and meetings, a newspaper reported Wednesday.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution said HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt's use of the plane has cost more than 700,000 since January.The newspaper analyzed the Gulfstream III's flight log and found that the 14-seat aircraft has been used primarily by Leavitt... Tagged as: leased, centers, disease, control, prevention, emergencies, shuttle Read Full Story