Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Tom Reed (R-NY) introduced bipartisan legislation today that would improve the experience of cancer patients and their families by better coordinating their care from the point of diagnosis and addressing the often debilitating symptoms of treatment.
Washington, D.C. July 16, 2015 Governor Bill Walker 's announcement today that he will increase access to health coverage for thousands more hard-working, low-income Alaska residents will save lives and long-term health care dollars in the state.
WASHINGTON, DC Five leading U.S. public health organizations today called on members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce 's Board of Directors to withdraw from the Chamber unless it stops fighting measures to reduce tobacco use around the world.
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 10, 2015 The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 6, The 21st Century Cures Act, including $1.75 billion in mandatory funding for the medical research at the National Institutes of Health for each of the next five years.
The American Cancer Society, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association and National Multiple Sclerosis Society responded enthusiastically to today's U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of King v. Burwell.
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