Advertising Campaign Urges Quick Senate Passage of FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- April 22, 2009 -- Urging the U.S.
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Rhode Island Becomes First State With Tobacco Tax to Exceed $3.00
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- April 8, 2009 -- Effective this Friday, April 10, 2009, Rhode Island will be the first state with a tobacco tax to exceed $3.00. The Rhode Island General Assembly approved a $1.00 tax increase last week as part of the state’s 2009 supplemental budget.
Budget Resolutions Present Opportunities for Health Care Reform This Year
The House and Senate passed Budget Resolutions last night that enable the critical effort to move forward to reform our health care system. The result is good news for cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones who know too well the gaps that exist in the broken health care system.
U.S. House Votes to Protect Children from Big Tobacco
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- April 2, 2009 -- “House members put children before Big Tobacco today by voting overwhelmingly to grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing and sale of tobacco products.
Critical Legislation to Regulate Tobacco Products Would Protect Children and Save Lives
Cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones are urging their Members of Congress to support critical legislation that would save lives by putting an end to Big Tobacco's despicable and deceptive practices to attract and addict youth to smoking and keep current smokers from quitting.
House Recognizes Importance of Colorectal Cancer Screenings, Education and Outreach
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- March 30, 2009 -- Today the U.S.
Leaders of Major National Organizations Collaborate on Approaches to Health Reform
Leaders from widely diverse national organizations today stressed their mutual commitment to reform of the nation’s health care system, calling it an “urgent, national necessity” that requires different stakeholders to cooperate in ways that they did not in previous reform efforts.
Congressional Committees Help Move Health Care Reform Forward
The House and Senate Budget Committees passed budget resolutions this week that enable critical health care reform to move forward in this country. The result is good news for cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones who know too well the gaps that exist in the broken health care system.
Comprehensive Cancer Bill Would Renew National Commitment to Defeating Cancer
Senators Edward Kennedy (D-MA) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) introduced legislation today that would renew the national commitment to defeat cancer, a disease that is expected to kill 560,000 Americans this year alone.
Senators Introduce National Pain Care Bill That Could Help Millions of Americans Cope with Chronic Pain
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- March 20, 2009 -- Millions of Americans who suffer from pain could soon find relief thanks to bipartisan legislation introduced last night in the U.S. Senate. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) introduced the National Pain Care Policy Act of 2009 (S.