Health and Human Services oversight failure hits disability programs
The HHS Office of the Inspector General found ACL failed to perform required on-site visits for independent living programs serving thousands with intellectual and physical disabilities since 2012. ACL cites travel funding limits, saying audits are not feasible while OIG notes inadequate budgeting for oversight. Assistant regional inspector Mike Barton calls on-site reviews essential to verify services. See AGENCY, B2
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Health and Human Services
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Inspector General
Administration For Community Living
HHS
ACL
OIG
Mike Barton
Being Heard exhibition explores art and healing at DC center
The Children's National Medical Center in Washington hosts eight empathetic paintings from the Being Heard show, including Terry Litz's Of Chickens & Fireflies. The project, funded by the Institute for Integrative Health, pairs chronically ill youths with Maryland artists Boocks and Litz to create artworks tied to patient poems.
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Washington
Terry Litz
Children’s National Medical Center
District of Columbia
Litz
Silver Spring
Maryland
National Endowment For the Arts
Kennedy Center
National Institutes of Health
Judy Rollins
Institute For Integrative Health
Baltimore
Rollins
Lori Anne Boocks
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Boocks
Germantown
Natasha Troike
Troike
New antibiotic approved for drug resistant tuberculosis
The FDA approved pre tomanid for highly drug resistant TB, a leading killer with 1.6 million deaths yearly. TB Alliance developed the drug as a nonprofit to spur next generation antibiotics, hoping to model collaborative development amid looming drug resistance. 95 of 107 trial patients showed six month success with a three drug regimen.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
TB Alliance
United Nations
Mel Spigelman
Achaogen
Protomanid
World Health Organization
FDA
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