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May 19, 2021

Hyde-Smith Recommends Establishing CDC Office of Rural Health

At Budget Review Hearing, CDC Director Also Agrees with Hyde-Smith Call for Greater Flexibility in Using CDC Funding Citing rural health disparities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) today recommended establishing an Office of Rural Health within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to begin correcting those inequities. Hyde-Smith…
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May 19, 2021

Wicker Joins to Reintroduce Legislation to Improve Early Assessment, Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s

Bipartisan group of Senators push for CHANGE Act. U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., joined U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., to reintroduce the Concentrating on High-Value Alzheimer’s Needs to Get to an End (CHANGE) Act, bipartisan legislation to encourage early assessment and diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Companion legislation was also…