HHS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does HHS mean? 

• HHS (noun)
  The noun HHS has 1 sense:

1. the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979

  Familiarity information: HHS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HHS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of Health and Human Services; Health and Human Services; HHS

Hypernyms ("HHS" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "HHS"):

FDA; Food and Drug Administration (a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products)

CDC; Center for Disease Control and Prevention (a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases))

PHS; United States Public Health Service (an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health)

National Institutes of Health; NIH (an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government)

 Context examples 

The PHS is comprised of all agency divisions of HHS and the Commissioned Corps, uniformed health professionals who serve at HHS and other federal agencies.

(Office of Assistant Secretary of Health, NCI Thesaurus)

The EUA is a statutory authority allowing the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to authorize the introduction into interstate commerce and the use of unapproved medical products or authorize unapproved uses of approved medical products intended for use in an actual or potential emergency, during an emergency declared under Section 564(b)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act), as amended by the Project BioShield Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-276).

(Emergency Use Authorization, Food and Drug Administration)