3.0.0 516 2022-11-15T16:32:30Z 2022-11-15T16:32:30Z Senate S S 2013-03-11 113 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2013-03-11T21:13:22Z 2013-03-11 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2013-03-11 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress T000464 Sen. Tester, Jon [D-MT] Jon Tester D MT N B000575 Sen. Blunt, Roy [R-MO] Roy Blunt R MO 2013-03-11 True C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID 2013-03-21 False S001141 Sen. Sessions, Jeff [R-AL] Jeff Sessions R AL 2013-04-15 False Health Advisory bodies Cancer Executive agency funding and structure Government information and archives Health information and medical records Health programs administration and funding Health technology, devices, supplies Medical research Medical tests and diagnostic methods Military medicine Minority health Research administration and funding Sex and reproductive health Veterans' medical care Health 00 2013-03-11 Introduced in Senate 2013-03-19T14:52:20Z Prostate Research, Outreach, Screening, Testing, Access, and Treatment Effectiveness Act of 2013 or PROSTATE Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish the Interagency Prostate Cancer Coordination and Education Task Force, with duties to include: (1) developing a summary of advances in federal prostate cancer research and compile a list of best practices that warrant broader adoption in health care programs, (2) considering establishing guidance to enable physicians to allow screening of men over age 74, (3) coordinating information on federal research and health care program activities relating to prostate cancer, and (4) submitting recommendations regarding federal research and health care programs.

Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program to coordinate and intensify prostate cancer research, including by developing advances in diagnostic and prognostic methods and tests, better understanding of the etiology of the disease, and establishment of clinical registries for prostate cancer and the award of research grants.

Establishes in the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a Prostate Cancer Scientific Advisory Board to be responsible for accelerating real-time sharing of the latest research data and accelerating movement of new medicines to patients.

Directs the Secretary of VA, the Secretary of Defense (DOD) and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish four-year telehealth pilot projects to analyze the clinical outcomes and cost effectiveness associated with telehealth services in a variety of geographic areas that contain high proportions of medically underserved populations as well as those in rural areas.

Requires the Secretary of VA to develop a national education campaign for prostate cancer.

]]> PROSTATE Act Display Title PROSTATE Act Short Titles as Introduced PROSTATE Act Short Titles as Introduced Prostate Research, Outreach, Screening, Testing, Access, and Treatment Effectiveness Act of 2013 Official Title as Introduced A bill to reduce disparities and improve access to effective and cost efficient diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer through advances in testing, research, and education, including through telehealth, comparative effectiveness research, and identification of best practices in patient education and outreach particularly with respect to underserved racial, ethnic and rural populations and men with a family history of prostate cancer, to establish a directive on what constitutes clinically appropriate prostate cancer imaging, and to create a prostate cancer scientific advisory board for the Office of the Chief Scientist at the Food and Drug Administration to accelerate real-time sharing of the latest research and accelerate movement of new medicines to patients. Introduced in Senate 2013-03-11T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s516is/xml/BILLS-113s516is.xml 2013-03-11 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.