Cancer
Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Urging The Governor To Establish A Financial Assistance Program For Cancer Patients And Their Families. [SCR-38]
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Urging The Governor To Establish A Financial Assistance Program For Cancer Patients And Their Families.
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Gettr Hawaii 2017 Regular Session
Relating To Medical Coverage For Firefighters. [HB-913]
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Improves access for firefighters to comprehensive medical coverage and service-connected disability retirement benefits upon diagnosis with or death from cancer that is presumed to arise out of and in the course of employment. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Maine 128th Legislature
An Act To Promote Early Detection of Breast Cancer [SB-817]
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An Act To Promote Early Detection of Breast Cancer
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the issuance of childhood cancer awareness license plates. [SB-1460]
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[Children and Youth ]
Relating to the issuance of childhood cancer awareness license plates.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to health benefit plan coverage for ovarian cancer testing and screening. [HB-3304]
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Relating to health benefit plan coverage for ovarian cancer testing and screening.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to a report concerning health care providers participating in the breast and cervical cancer services program, the family planning program, and the Texas women's health program. [HB-3123]
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Relating to a report concerning health care providers participating in the breast and cervical cancer services program, the family planning program, and the Texas women's health program.
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US Congress 115th Congress
A concurrent resolution recognizing the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks during Women's History Month. [SCR-11]
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A concurrent resolution recognizing the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks during Women's History Month. Celebrates, during Women's History Month, the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks. Honors Lacks as a hero of modern medicine for contributions to the medical discoveries resulting from her HeLa cells, which helped make possible some of the most important medical advances of the last century. Recognizes her legacy, which has contributed to developments in bioethics and patient rights.
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US Congress 115th Congress
Recognizing the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks during Women's History Month. [HCR-38]
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Recognizing the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks during Women's History Month. Celebrates, during Women's History Month, the life and legacy of Henrietta Lacks. Honors Lacks as a hero of modern medicine for contributions to the medical discoveries resulting from her HeLa cells, which helped make possible some of the most important medical advances of the last century. Recognizes her legacy, which has contributed to developments in bioethics and patient rights.
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US Congress 115th Congress
Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act [S.693]
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Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide support for Palliative Care and Hospice Education Centers. These centers must improve the training of health professionals in palliative care and establish traineeships for individuals preparing for advanced education nursing degrees, social work degrees, or advanced degrees in physician assistant studies in palliative care. HHS may provide support to schools of medicine, schools
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US Congress 115th Congress
Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act [HB-1676]
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Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide support for Palliative Care and Hospice Education Centers. These centers must improve the training of health professionals in palliative care and establish traineeships for individuals preparing for advanced education nursing degrees, social work degrees, or advanced degrees in physician assistant studies in palliative care. HHS may provide support to schools of medicine, schools
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US Congress 115th Congress
Invest in Women's Health Act of 2017 [S.689]
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Invest in Women's Health Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide support to public or nonprofit entities to expand certain preventive health services, with an emphasis on increasing access to cancer screening, particularly for women of color. The bill reauthorizes through FY2020: (1) programs related to breast and gynecologic cancers under Medicaid and family planning programs, and (2) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Breast and
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TARGET Act Targeted Rewards for the Global Eradication of Human Trafficking [HB-1625]
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TARGET Act Targeted Rewards for the Global Eradication of Human Trafficking (Sec. 2) This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the Department of State's rewards program is a powerful tool in combating sophisticated international crime and that the State Department and federal law enforcement should work in concert to offer rewards that target human traffickers who prey on the most vulnerable people around the world. (Sec. 3) The State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 is amended to include severe forms of trafficking in persons involving
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EAT for Health Act of 2017 Education and Training for Health Act of 2017 [HB-1634]
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EAT for Health Act of 2017 Education and Training for Health Act of 2017 This bill directs the Department of Health and Human Services to issue guidelines to federal agencies to ensure that federal, full time primary care health professionals have continuing education relating to nutrition. Agencies must annually report information including the extent to which they have adopted and encouraged the guidelines. The continuing education must: (1) include content on the role of nutrition in the prevention, management, and reversal of obesity, cardiovascular
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to ensuring that women's health care under current law is preserved. [HR-205]
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to ensuring that women's health care under current law is preserved. Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the health care system should continue to provide health insurance coverage for fundamental elements of women's health care, including maternity care, preventive care with no cost sharing, and coverage for preexisting conditions.
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Mary Jo Lawyer Spano Mesothelioma Patient Registry Act of 2017 [HB-1563]
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Mary Jo Lawyer Spano Mesothelioma Patient Registry Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to develop a patient registry to collect data on mesothelioma. The agency must use the registry to: enhance and expand infrastructure and activities for tracking the epidemiology of mesothelioma patients; collect, consolidate, and report on health information on mesothelioma patients; describe the incidence and prevalence of mesothelioma in the United States; facilitate research
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Donald Payne Sr. Colorectal Cancer Detection Act of 2017 [HB-1578]
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Donald Payne Sr. Colorectal Cancer Detection Act of 2017 This bill amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage and payment, subject to specified frequency limits, of certain colorectal cancer screening blood-based tests.
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US Congress 115th Congress
A resolution supporting the designation of March 2017 as "National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month". [SR-89]
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A resolution supporting the designation of March 2017 as "National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month". Expresses support for the designation of March 2017 as National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
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Relating to the issuance of childhood cancer awareness license plates. [HB-2700]
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[Children and Youth ]
Relating to the issuance of childhood cancer awareness license plates.
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ENRICH Act Expanding Nutrition's Role in Curricula and Healthcare Act [HB-1413]
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ENRICH Act Expanding Nutrition's Role in Curricula and Healthcare Act This bill requires the Health Resources and Services Administration to establish a program of three-year competitive grants to accredited medical schools for the development or expansion of an integrated nutrition and physical activity curriculum. The curriculum must: (1) be designed to improve communication and provider preparedness in the prevention, management, and reversal of obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer; and (2) address additional topics regarding
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Cancer Drug Parity Act of 2017 [HB-1409]
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Cancer Drug Parity Act of 2017 This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require group and individual health plans that cover anticancer medications administered by a health care provider to provide no less favorable cost sharing for patient-administered anticancer medications. This requirement applies to medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration that is prescribed based on a finding by the treating physician that the medication is medically necessary for cancer treatment and is clinically appropriate in terms of type, frequency,
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