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Murray! You're incredible! What digging!! e.g., NIH Stem Cell Information (A Virtual Chronology) http://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/index.htm nuggets of gold!! Well done! char Murray Charters wrote: > Hi All, > While I was looking up stem cells, I kept on seeing HHS... so I worked > backwards to.... a wealth of informative links. > > Subject: Department of Health and Human Services > > 09-28-2000 > HHS today released its updated HHS Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2001 > through 2006. The plan updates and revises the 1997 plan and provides a > statement of the direction the department will take over the next six > years to ensure and improve the health and well-being of the American > people. It includes details on goals, objectives and strategies that > the department will pursue. > > Just who is the HHS? > 09-19-2000 > The Department of Health and Human Services is the United States > government's principal agency for protecting the health of all > Americans and providing essential human services, especially for > those who are least able to help themselves. > http://www.dhhs.gov/ > > HHS Strategic Plan FY 2001 - 2006 > http://aspe.hhs.gov/hhsplan/ > > The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) is the > principal advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health > and Human Services on policy development, and is responsible for > major activities in the areas of policy coordination, legislation > development, strategic planning, policy research and evaluation, and > economic analysis. > http://aspe.hhs.gov/ > > The Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy (DALTCP) > is charged with developing, analyzing, evaluating and coordinating > HHS policies and programs which support the independence, productivity, > health and long-term care needs of children, working age adults and > older persons with disabilities. > http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/home.htm > > News from HHS Agencies > http://www.os.dhhs.gov/news/press/ > > Community Health Status Indicators Project > http://www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov/ > http://www.communityhealth.hrsa.gov/searchCounty.asp > > (January 19, 1999) HHS Press Release (this is the one got me curious on HHS) > FACT SHEET - STEM CELL RESEARCH > Overview: The Department of Health and Human Services has concluded that > current law permits federal funds to be used for research utilizing human > pluripotent stem cells. This decision is consistent with existing > congressional restrictions on human embryo research and with federal law > and regulations governing human fetal tissue research. The National > Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to move forward in a careful and > deliberate fashion to develop rigorous guidelines that address the special > ethical, legal, and moral issues surrounding this research. The NIH will > not be funding any research using pluripotent stem cells until guidelines > are developed and widely disseminated to the research community and an > oversight process is in place. > http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/1999pres/990119.html > > National Institutes of Health - News and Events > (Scroll way down for all the links) > http://www.nih.gov/news/ > > NIH Stem Cell Information (A Virtual Chronology) > http://www.nih.gov/news/stemcell/index.htm > > Culturing Human Embryonic Stem (ES) Cells (11/98) > http://www.hysa.org/~jkimball/BiologyPages/H/HumanEScells.html > > ******************** > [log in to unmask] > > View the Parkinson's Awareness Links at: > http://www.geocities.com/janet313/pienet/wwweb/index.html