House and Senate Appropriations Committees on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education are scheduled to markup FY 2016 spending bills this week that include increases for medical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and maintain important funding for cancer prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Our organizations urge rejection of language included in a U.S. House appropriations bill that would significantly limit the Food and Drug Administration’s ability to protect our nation’s children from flavored cigars and e-cigarettes now on the market, including e-cigarettes with flavors such as gummy bear and cotton candy.
WASHINGTON, DC June 16, 2015 Rising college junior Ian Lock from Fond du lac, Wis., is in Washington, D.C., today to urge Members of Congress to support a proposed $2B in mandatory funding a year for each of the next 5 years for medical research at the National Institutes of Health.
Volunteer advocates from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) will join more than 250 childhood cancer patients, survivors and their families on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, June 16, to ask Congress to continue to support initiatives that would improve research, treatment and outcomes for children with cancer.
WASHINGTON, DC June 12, 2015 Congress last night introduced the Cancer Treatment Parity Act of 2015 that would help to equalize patient out-of-pocket costs for cancer drugs taken orally, and cancer treatme
WASHINGTON, D.C. June 10, 2015 The $1 per pack cigarette tax increase signed into law late Tuesday by Gov. Brian Sandoval will help to discourage tobacco use and save lives from cancer and other serious tobacco-related diseases in Nevada.
WASHINGTON, DC June 8, 2015 Volunteer advocates from the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) will join cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, physicians, and researchers from 20 other organizations in Washington, DC, this week to urge lawmakers to support funding for crit
A ruling issued today by the U.S Circuit Court for the District of Columbia affirms most of a lower court ruling requiring that the tobacco industry issue “corrective statements” to prevent it from continuing to mislead the public about the dangers of its products.
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 29, 2015 The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced the inclusion of $2 billion in mandatory funding for the medical research at the National Institutes of Health for each of the next five years as part of the 21st Century CURES proposal.
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 22, 2015 For the first time, all workers in the city of New Orleans can go to work today knowing they are protected from the cancer-causing toxins found in secondhand smoke.