Pending Federal Legislation

Pending Legislation for Federal Aid to Science.

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Pending legislation and tobacco industry deception.

In 1964, the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, establishing the link between cigarette smoking and several debilitating or deadly diseases, caused instant worldwide reaction. The report revealed that cigarette smoking is a direct cause of lung cancer and laryngeal cancer and the most important cause of chronic bronchitis. Over the years, the surgeon general has issued numero...

Proposed federal legislation jeopardizes patient privacy.

In the last year there has been a move to enact federal legislation concerning private health-care information. This move has been fueled by a growing trend toward the computerization and electronic transmission of health-care information. These advances in technology call for appropriate new protections of patients' privacy. Unfortunately, the proposed legislation has not received adequate ...

Last resort: the threat of federal steroid legislation--is the proposed legislation constitutional?

Federal legislation and the advancement of neonatal drug studies.

T he directive from the US Congress, through laws and regulations mandating that manufacturers of pharmaceuticals demonstrate proof that new drugs are both safe and efficacious in target groups, has been in place for 50 years. However, children and, in particular, neonates remain disproportionately underrepresented in the majority of drug clinical trials. To date, federal legislation has been s...