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Black, Latino, Native American and other minorities had higher rates of COVID-19 - contracting it and and being hospitalized - than the national average. Last summer, Dr. Gary Gibbons decided to do something about it.
June 16, 2021 -
The Director of Health Care issues at the Government Accountability Office Sharon Silas discusses what the watchdog agency found.
May 19, 2021 -
Principal Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and a finalist in this year's Service to America Medals Program, Dr. Anne Schuchat, spoke with Federal Drive with Tom Temin about her career.
May 19, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Defense Department has expanded its program of using external hackers to probe systems for cybersecurity vulnerability.
May 06, 2021 -
A total of 190 military bases around the globe no longer have travel restrictions.
May 05, 2021 -
The words workplace and worker health have taken on whole new meanings in the year plus long pandemic.
April 30, 2021 -
The Defense Department still wants to cut 18,000 medical billets.
April 29, 2021 -
Sometimes forgotten during the pandemic is that drug overdose deaths have continued to rise - to record levels.
April 23, 2021 -
Immigration and Customs Enforcement does maintain standards for the detention of illegal immigrants. But it doesn't always follow them.
April 22, 2021 -
The grouping of defense agencies are looking inward to make up for the budget gap.
April 21, 2021 -
Brain health has come to the forefront as a major health issues for service members.
April 02, 2021 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it's been able to vaccinate its health care workers with relative speed, but reaching the broader veteran population has and will continue to be a challenge.
February 19, 2021 -
Tests on VA's new system showed more than 500 serious problems as recently as last summer. The department managed to resolve or work around almost all of them by the time of its first deployment in October.
February 16, 2021 -
Veterans and health care have changed a lot since 1945 when the vast cohort started returning home from World War II. The VA's acting Undersecretary for Health, Dr. Richard Stone, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for a review.
February 11, 2021 -
Implementation of the CARES Act and vaccine distribution has been rocky. We got a look at the latest assessment from the Government Accountability Office's managing director for health care issues Nicole Clowers.
February 03, 2021