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Short-Term
Funding Resolution Likely; Continued Grassroots Efforts Needed
to Ensure Highest Possible Funding Level for
NIH
Although congressional leaders made
significant progress in advancing their respective versions of
bills to fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in fiscal
year (FY) 2010, none of the appropriations bills have yet been
finalized. As in past years, Congress is not expected to finish
appropriations before the end of the FY on September 30 and will
likely need to pass a continuing resolution to fund federal
programs, including NIH, at current
levels into the beginning of FY 2010. Read
more.
Chairman
Baucus Releases Finance Committee Health Reform Proposal;
Republican Support Unclear
Senate Finance
Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) has released his
long-awaited health
reform proposal. Read
more.
President
Obama's Speech to Congress Reignites Efforts to Pass a Bill This
Year
On September 9, President Obama gave a
speech to a special joint session of Congress outlining his plan
for health reform and reigniting Democrats' goal to pass
comprehensive health reform this year. Read
more.
White
House Highlights Costs of Treating Hemophilia With Special Guest
at Joint Congressional Session
On September 9,
President and Mrs. Obama highlighted the costs associated with
treating hemophilia by inviting Nathan Wilkes, father of a son
with hemophilia, as a special guest to the Joint Congressional
Session. Read
more.
Harkin
Named Chairman of Senate HELP Committee
Senator
Tom Harkin (D-IA) has been named
Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
(HELP) Committee. Senator Harkin succeeds the late Senator
Edward Kennedy (D-MA), who served as Chairman of the HELP
Committee until his death on August 25. Read
more.
House
and Senate Defense Appropriations Bills Include Blood Cancer
Research Funding
As Congress continues to work
toward completion of fiscal year (FY) 2010 funding bills, the
current versions of the Senate and House Defense Appropriations
bills each contain funding to support blood cancer research. Read
more.
September
Is Sickle Cell Awareness Month
ASH continues to
work with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other federal
agencies toward the common goal of expanding sickle cell
research and providing excellent care for patients with sickle
cell disease. Read
more.
NIH
Office of Extramural Research Releases September 2009
Newsletter
The NIH Office of Extramural Research
has released its September
2009 newsletter, which includes information on new NIH
Director Francis Collins' five key themes for NIH and a reminder
for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grantees to register
at FederalReporting.gov.
NCI
Announces First International Workshop on the Biology,
Prevention, and Treatment of Relapse After Allogeneic
HSCT
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is
planning a two-day workshop on the problem of relapse following
allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). This
workshop will take place November 2-3, 2009, on the NIH campus
in Bethesda, MD. The goal of the workshop is to generate key
research questions for a planned Request for Applications at
NCI. The registration
deadline is November 1.
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