Department of Health and Human Services July 13, 2007 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Total Amount Awarded: $600,000. Total Number of Awards: One (1). Description of Opportunity: The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP)/Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS), announces a competitive cooperative agreement project titled Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Scholarship Program for up to $600,000, in the fiscal year (FY) 2007 for a 5 year period, subject to available funding. This project seeks to provide disease prevention and health promotion educational and training opportunities for medical and public health students; preventive medicine and primary care residents; and practicing physicians and public health professionals. Eligibility: To qualify for funding, an applicant must be a professional non-profit organization, association, or institute of higher learning that focuses or has as its mission to educate one or more of the following groups: Medical and/or public health students, preventive medicine and primary care residents; and practicing physicians from communities across the country. Eligible applicants are also encouraged to apply in partnerships. Faith-based groups that meet the definition of professional non-profit organization or institution of higher learning as described above are also eligible to apply.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of several proposed and final documents that have been prepared by Study Groups 1 and 5 of the Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF). These documents represent a harmonized proposal and recommendation from the GHTF Study Groups that may be used by governments developing and updating their regulatory requirements for medical devices. These documents are intended to provide information only and do not describe current regulatory requirements; elements of these documents may not be consistent with current U.S. regulatory requirements. FDA is requesting comments on these documents.