HHS

See also: HHs

English

Proper noun

HHS

  1. (US) Initialism of Health and Human Services.
    • 2022 July 6, “Senators Warren, Sanders, Markey, and Gillibrand Urge Administration to Deschedule Cannabis and Pardon Nonviolent Cannabis Offenders”, in warren.senate.gov‎[1]:
      U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) led Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to send a letter to President Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra, following up on previous requests that the administration use its authority to deschedule cannabis and pardon non-violent cannabis-related offenders.
    • 2023 July 19, Jeremy Diamond and Simone McCarthy, “Biden administration suspends funding for Wuhan lab”, in CNN‎[2]:
      “This action aims to ensure that WIV does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson said in a statement. “The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s biosafety protocols.”

Noun

HHS (uncountable)

  1. Initialism of harness hang syndrome.
  2. (medicine) Initialism of hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state.

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