[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 10 (Thursday, January 21, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D62]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
MINORITY HEALTH ISSUES
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, Education and Related Agencies held hearings to examine the 
results of the Institute of Medicine assessment of National Institutes 
of Health research and programs for ethnic minorities and the medically 
underserved, including differences in cancer survival rates, cancer 
research approach and prioritization, prevention and treatment 
programs, clinical trials, research result communication, and 
improvement of health, receiving testimony from M. Alfred Haynes, 
Chair, Committee on Cancer Research Among Minorities and the Medically 
Underserved, Institute of Medicine; Richard Klausner, Director and Otis 
W. Brawley, Assistant Director, both of the National Cancer Institute, 
Department of Health and Human Resources; Louis W. Sullivan, Morehouse 
School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, former Secretary of Health and 
Human Services; and Armin D. Weinberg, Center for Cancer Control 
Research/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, on behalf of the 
Intercultural Cancer Council.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.