DISEASES related term(s) Health

Addresses

Infant Mortality and What Needs To Be Done To Conquer the Threat in the U.S.: Senator Chiles, 7794 [16AP]

Legal and Civil Rights Implications of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: Representative Waxman, 21427 [13AU]

Oral Rehydration Therapy Treatment: Peter McPherson, 2399 [19FE]

Agenda

National Program To Conquer Alzheimer's Disease, 16638-16640 [16JY]

Amendments

Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration: authorizing appropriations (S. 2443), 33860-33866 [18OC]

American Liver Foundation National Liver Awareness Month: designate (S.J. Res. 202), 24655 [18SE]

Drug industry: establish conditions for exports (S. 1848), 2741-2744 [25FE], 4086 [7MR], 10302, 10333, 10336 [12MY], 10390, 10393, 10396, 10428 [13MY], 10571, 10574, 10576, 10629, 10630 [14MY]

Education of the Handicapped Act: amend and extend (S. 2294), 12919-12923 [6JN]

Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act: enact (S. 2209), 18127 [30JY]

Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 352), 28550, 28654 [3OC]

National Kidney Program Day: designate (S.J. Res. 367), 30192 [10OC]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: enact S. 2057, 32250 [16OC]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act: enact (S. 2057), 13830, 13861 [16JN]

Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act: enact (S. 974), 1705 [5FE]

Vaccination: assistance to foreign countries to promote immunization and oral rehydration (S. 1917), 26306, 26309 [25SE], 28546-28549, 28636-28642 [3OC], 28816-28819 [6OC]

Veterans' Compensation and Benefits Improvements Act: enact (S. 1887), 22045 [15AU]

Analyses

End Stage Renal Disease Program Administration and Regulation Changes, 17509 [23JY]

Federal Health Care Auditing and Quality Control Improvement Act (S. 2625), 15885 [26JN]

Federal Hospital System Sharing Act (S. 2627), 15889 [26JN]

Steps in Approving and Paying for Products and Procedure, 11328 [20MY]

Appointments

Conferees: S. 974, Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act, 1705 [5FE], 1971 [6FE]

Articles and editorials

Agent Orange—Let It Lie, 25375 [22SE]

Aid in Day-to-Day Life Seen as Hope for Schizophrenics, 7516 [15AP]

AIDS and Discrimination (sundry), 17310-17313 [22JY]

AIDS Epidemic—Moving From Complacency to Action, 24692 [18SE]

AIDS—Conquering the Fear and Finding a Cure, 10119 [8MY]

American Heart Month (excerpt), 3267 [27FE]

American Medical Maze Almost Cost Me My Life, 3207 [27FE]

Asbestos Dumping Charges Lodged, 6815 [8AP]

Asbestos Found in Abandoned City Property, 8837 [28AP]

Baby Calvin, 13589 [12JN]

Bad Riddance—Ripping Out Asbestos Endangers More Lives as Laws Are Ignored, 7403 [14AP]

Battling the Enemy Within, 4412-4416 [12MR]

Biotechnology Industry (excerpt), 10330 [12MY]

Bitter Pill for Epileptics, 22852 [11SE]

Buried by a Tropical Snowstorm, 4417 [12MR]

Burkina Faso—Vaccination Commando, 10344 [12MY]

Cancer and the Pill, 27875-27879 [2OC]

Cancer Patients—Many Battle Job Discrimination, Too, 29836 [8OC]

Canker a Problem for Entire State, Not Just Citrus Industry, Says Official, 6565 [27MR]

Chernobyl—Greatest Industrial Accident in Mankind's History, 16003 [26JN]

Closing the Doors on Health Councils?, 12908 [6JN]

Coast-to-Coast Runner Takes Steps To Fight Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 22759 [10SE]

Cost of Exporting Trouble, 10327 [12MY]

D.C. AIDS Bill, 18694 [1AU]

Diary of Despair . . . And Rebounding Hope, 2647 [24FE]

Exporting Trouble, 10328 [12MY]

Family History and Oral Contraceptives, 27879-27882 [2OC]

Growing Toll of Alzheimer's Disease, 27507 [1OC]

Growth Hormone Proves To Be Tempting for Athletes, 30432 [10OC]

Health Care Has Changed, and Not All of It Is for the Better, 4608 [12MR]

Health Care—Quality and Constraint, 1287 [30JA]

Health Personnel May Have Gotten AIDS From Patients, 33639 [17OC]

Health Promotion (excerpt), 13831 [16JN]

Health Workers Got AIDS Virus From Needles, 33639 [17OC]

Highly Sensitive Test Can Detect Dioxin Years After Exposure, 31235 [14OC]

I Feel Like I Am Trapped Inside My Head, Banging Desperately Against Its Walls, 7516 [15AP]

Inverse Relation Between Fish Consumption and 20-Year Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease, 22002-22004 [15AU]

Kids and Cocaine, 4418 [12MR]

Laboratory Animal Research, 31342 [15OC]

License To Hound AIDS Victims, 16301 [26JN]

Life From Death, 12828 [5JN]

Medicare and Physicians' Services (excerpt), 8689 [24AP]

Narc Goes Underground at Cherry Hill East High, 4421 [12MR]

New Growth Industry in Human Growth Hormone?, 29391 [7OC]

Nurse Punctured by AIDS-Infected Needle Sues Med School—Student Called Negligent in Disposing of Syringe, 33639 [17OC]

Nutritional Breakthrough of the 80's—Omega-3, 22004 [15AU]

Other Plague, 4416 [12MR]

Our Indian Reservation System Has Failed To Help the Indians, 3238 [27FE]

Pike—Justice Department Tells How To Discriminate Properly, 21746 [14AU]

Preventing Needless Deaths, 12832 [5JN]

Promise of Animal Research Is Too Great To Abandon, 17542 [24JY]

Putting Genes on a Map—World's Scientists Begin Planning a Detailed Description of Human DNA, 18601 [31JY]

Quiet Disease, 2772 [25FE]

Raging End of a Truly Godly Life, 6592 [27MR]

Reason Fails With Qaddafi, Bombs May Get His Attention, 8837 [28AP]

Refusenik Cancer Ward—Phone Call to U.S. From Ailing Soviets Underscores Battle of Disease and Politics, 24722 [18SE]

Research Mystery—Use of Surgery, Hospitals Varies Greatly by Region, 4876 [14MR]

Schizophrenia Focus Shifts to Dramatic Changes in Brain, 7514 [15AP]

Schizophrenia Puzzle—Toll Rises Amid Hope, 7510 [15AP]

Schizophrenia's Victims Include Strained Families, 7513 [15AP]

Should Liquor Have Warning Labels?, 17059 [21JY]

Should Nurses Be Told if a Patient Has AIDS?, 33639 [17OC]

Should the FDA Regulate the Rest of the World?, 10332 [12MY]

Singin' in the Rain, 15652 [25JN]

Six Shots To Save Your Life, 24702 [18SE]

Some Insurers Stop Writing Health, Life Polices in DC, 28401 [3OC]

Some Veterans Deserve a Day in Court, 25375 [22SE]

Study Rates MH Care Quality by State, 7908 [17AP]

Tale of Three Addictions, 4420 [12MR]

Telltale Hair, 4416 [12MR]

Testing Testing, 4416 [12MR]

Transmission of AIDS—Case Against Casual Contagion, 23264 [12SE]

Turbulent Story of Longest Survival Began on Brink of Death, 20569 [11AU]

U.S. Apologizes to AIDS Researcher, 17530 [23JY]

Unsung Live-Aid Challenge, 28558 [3OC]

Urban Institute Debunks Harvard's Hunger Hype, 15930 [26JN]

VA Denies His Breast Cancer Claim, 17546 [24JY]

Washington Wire—A Special Weekly Report, 23095 [12SE]

What To Do If Your Son or Daughter Gets Hooked, 4421 [12MR]

What's at Stake—Immediate Case for Animal Research, 31340 [15OC]

Who Will Live, Who Will Die, 31336-31340 [15OC]

Why Can't These Soviet Cancer Patients Leave, 25865-25866 [24SE]

``Why Me? Why Anyone?'' Leukemia Victim Asks, 2648 [24FE]

William Schroeder Dies 620 Days After Receiving Artificial Heart, 20570 [11AU]

Bills and resolutions

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: enactment of State laws (see H. Con. Res. 402)

———grants for services and demonstration projects (see H.R. 5305)

———improve counseling, education, and services (see S. 2345)

———prohibit transfer of body fluids by Federal officers, employees, or members of Armed Forces (see H.R. 5638)

Aged: improve State long-term care ombudsman programs (see S. 2912)

Agriculture: Federal-State program to detect and eradicate citrus canker (see S. Res. 376, 377)

Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration: authorize appropriations (see S. 2443)

———revise authorities (see S. 2595; H.R. 5259)

Alcoholism: allotment formula for block grants (see H.R. 4473)

———grants to States for prevention, early detection, and treatment programs in schools (see H.R. 5336)

Alzheimer's disease: improve services (see S. 2183)

———promote family support groups for patients and their families (see H.R. 4055; H. Res. 360)

———research programs (see S. 2846, 2861; H.R. 5553)

Animal quarantine: restriction on use of first-class mail (see H.R. 5684)

Animals: authorize abbreviated new drug applications (see H.R. 5069)

———enforcement of quarantine laws through inspection of certain mail parcels (see H.R. 5601)

———extend patents for animal drug products (see H.R. 5069)

Asbestos: EPA information clearinghouse (see H.R. 5078)

———EPA regulations on inspection of schools (see H.R. 5073)

———EPA standards for identification and abatement in schools (see S. 2083; H.R. 4311)

———EPA standards for public buildings (see S. 2300)

———tax rules for accrual of, and carryback of losses from, deduction for product liabilities (see S. 2901)

Asbestos Information Clearinghouse: establish (see S. 2720)

Atomic power plant accidents: extend and improve procedures for liability and indemnification (see H.R. 5650)

Atomic weapons tests: research on potential atmospheric, climatic, biological, and environmental consequences (see H.R. 5051)

Avian influenza: eradication funds (see H.R. 4432)

Back injuries: establish commission (see H.R. 5681)

Bacteria: EPA standards for antimicrobial agents used to control pest microorganisms (see S. 2659; H.R. 5458)

Bankruptcy: prevent rejection of contracts providing medical benefits to current or former employees of debtor (see H.R. 5298)

Better Hearing and Speech Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 284)

Blood analyzers: duty (see H.R. 4733)

Citrus canker: eradication funds (see H.R. 4432)

Communicable diseases: exclude certain individuals from Rehabilitation Act provisions (see H.R. 5111)

Crack/Cocaine Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 678)

Critical Care Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 349; H.J. Res. 526)

Cyanide: protection against wrongful use (see S. 2704)

Cyclosporine: duty-free treatment (see H.R. 5034)

Deborah Heart and Lung Center: reimbursement (see H. Con. Res. 376)

Dept. of Defense: sharing of medical care resources with VA (see S. 2627; H.R. 5157)

Disability evaluation: primary role of findings of medical severity (see H.R. 4753)

———rules for individuals with multiple sclerosis (see H.R. 5474)

Donation of organs: protocols for hospitals participating in medicaid and medicare programs (see S. 2808; H.R. 5587)

———standards for procurement agencies (see S. 2808; H.R. 5587)

Donation of organs or tissues: hospital protocols for identifying potential donors (see H.R. 4697)

Drug abuse: allotment formula for block grants (see H.R. 4473)

———detection and treatment of certain offenders (see H.R. 5076)

———Federal aid programs for prevention and treatment (see H.R. 5334)

———response to crack cocaine epidemic (see S. 2715; H.R. 5418)

Drug industry: 7-year exclusive marketing privilege for other companies due to simultaneous development (see S. 2772)

———ban reimportation of drugs produced in U.S. (see S. 2875; H.R. 4820)

———fees for review of applications for marketing approval (see S. 2739)

———restrictions on samples (see S. 2875; H.R. 4820)

Drug-Free America Act: enact (see S. 2849)

Drugs: penalties for intentional poisoning or adulteration (see H.R. 4481)

Education: grants for alcohol and drug abuse prevention, early intervention, and rehabilitation programs in schools and colleges (see H.R. 5297)

Emergency Medical Services Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 343; H.J. Res. 529)

Employment: discrimination against individuals having history of cancer (see S. Con. Res. 165, 166)

———discrimination against persons with history of cancer (see H. Con. Res. 321)

———leave of absence for cases involving birth, adoption, or disease of children (see H.R. 4300)

———parental medical leave (see S. 2278)

End Stage Renal Disease Patient Rights Act: enact (see S. 2547)

EPA: establish Asbestos Information Clearinghouse (see S. 2720)

FDA: reclassification of transitional devices (see S. 2771)

Federal employees: insurance coverage of cleft lip and cleft palate (see H.R. 5589)

———social and long-term health benefits (see H.R. 5723)

Food: penalties for intentional poisoning or adulteration (see H.R. 4481)

Foreign trade: enforcement of plant and animal quarantine laws (see H.R. 5684)

Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 352; H.J. Res. 615)

Genetic Disorder Awareness Month: designate (see S. Res. 342)

Health: permit States to provide home and community-based services to low-income individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (see H.R. 4915)

Health insurance: access (see S. 2402, 2403; H.R. 4742)

Hospitals: ban certain resales of drugs (see H.R. 4820)

———ban certain resales of drugs purchased by medical facilities (see S. 2875)

Illegal aliens: medicaid benefits (see S. 2644)

———reimburse physicians and medical facilities for emergency treatment of certain (see H.R. 5216)

Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy Act: enact (see S. 2536)

Immunosuppressive drugs: provide for organ transplant centers (see S. 2540)

Indian Health Care Improvement Act: amend (see H.R. 5222)

———authorize appropriations (see H.R. 4600)

———consideration of H.R. 1426, amend (see H. Res. 528)

Infant Mortality Prevention Act: enact (see S. 2288)

Liability for aircraft accidents: uniform rules (see H.R. 4717)

Livestock: prohibit use of subtherapeutic doses of penicillin, chlortetracycline, and oxytetracycline in animal feed (see S. 2935)

Lupus Awareness Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 279; H.J. Res. 531)

Medicaid: assistance to illegal aliens (see S. 2644)

———bed requirement for skilled nursing homes and intermediate care facilities (see H.R. 5344)

———change requirements for nursing homes based on recommendations of Institute of Medicine (see H.R. 5450)

———concurrent notification of eligibility for SSI benefits to certain handicapped (see S. 2209; S. 4450)

———cost reduction (see S. 2776)

———home and community based services to low income individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (see S. 2527)

———optional State coverage for poor elderly or disabled individuals (see H.R. 4882)

———quality assurance system for homecare services (see H.R. 5680)

———quality control (see S. 2625; H.R. 5130)

———requests of hospital inpatients for reconsideration of determinations denying payment for continuing care (see H.R. 4275)

———services to children of low-income families (see S. 2649)

———services to pregnant women and infants (see S. 2650)

———standards for participating nursing homes (see S. 2604)

———standards for participation of skilled nursing homes (see H.R. 4485)

———States held harmless against a decrease in payment rates (see H.R. 4876)

———treatment in small rural hospitals (see S. 2410; H.R. 4788)

———uniform eligibility and benefit levels (see S. 2926; H.R. 5698)

Medical care: school-based adolescent health services demonstration projects (see S. 2757)

Medical instruments and apparatus: improve regulations (see H.R. 5516)

Medical personnel: authority for direct payment or reimbursement of certain additional types (see H.R. 4825)

Medical students: medicare reimbursement in ambulatory care settings (see S. 2670)

Medicare: additional insurance options for coverage of certain gaps (see H.R. 5320)

———additional members on Physician Payment Review Commission (see S. 2602; H.R. 5085)

———adult day care (see H.R. 4739)

———annual preventive health checkup (see S. 2400)

———annual recalibration of diagnosis-related groups (see S. 2474)

———auditing, medical review, and administration (see S. 2625; H.R. 5130)

———availability of new technologies and procedures not recognized by prospective payment system (see S. 2474)

———catastrophic, long-term, and preventive benefits through prepaid plans (see H.R. 4287)

———change requirements for skilled nursing facilities based on recommendations of Institute of Medicine (see H.R. 5712)

———community nursing and ambulatory care on prepaid, capitated basis (see H.R. 5457)

———complications and morbidity variations among discharges taken into account in making payments for inpatient hospital services under diagnosis-related group system (see H.R. 5647)

———contributions by individuals with physical or mental impairments (see H.R. 5090)

———cost effective review procedures and equity for beneficiaries (see H.R. 4419)

———cost reduction (see S. 2776)

———end stage renal disease program (see H.R. 5197)

———exemption of certain cancer research and treatment centers from prospective payment system (see S. 2786)

———graduate medical education in ambulatory care settings (see S. 2670)

———home oxygen services on prospective basis (see H.R. 5206)

———improve access to, and quality of program (see S. 2655)

———inpatient hospital and posthospital services (see S. 2331, 2341; H.R. 4620, 4638, 4663)

———inpatient hospital services in certain rural hospitals (see S. 2432)

———limitations on payment for home care services (see H.R. 5207, 5214)

———long-term and acute care benefits (see H.R. 4330)

———method of payment to hospitals for capital-related costs (see S. 2121)

———notice of discharge rights at time of admission to a hospital (see H.R. 4272)

———optional catastrophic, long-term, and preventive benefits through prepaid plans (see S. 2358)

———optional catastrophic care (see H.R. 4349)

———optometrists' and occupational therapy services (see H.R. 4881)

———payment for physicians' services (see S. 2368)

———payments for physician services made on an assignment-related basis (see H.R. 5732)

———periodic-interim-payment method of reimbursing providers of services (see H.R. 5053, 5054)

———prohibit certain physician-hospital capitation demonstration projects (see H.R. 5741)

———quality assurance system for homecare services (see H.R. 5680)

———quality of services furnished by health maintenance organizations and competitive medical plans (see H.R. 5360)

———research on outcomes of specific medical treatment and surgical procedures (see S. 2114)

———research relative to outcomes of specific treatments and surgical procedures (see H.R. 4797)

———standards for participating nursing homes (see S. 2604)

———standards for participation of skilled nursing homes (see H.R. 4485)

———timely payment of claims (see S. 2576; H.R. 5053, 5054)

———treatment in small rural hospitals (see S. 2410; H.R. 4788)

———waiver of liability presumption for home health agencies and skilled nursing homes (see S. 2122)

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 298)

Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 719)

Narcotic addiction: prevention and education programs (see H.R. 5664, 5729)

National Adult Day Care Center Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 375; H.J. Res. 617)

National Adult Immunization Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 396; H.J. Res. 700)

National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 299; H.J. Res. 550)

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 280; H.J. Res. 514)

National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 329; H.J. Res. 611)

National Back to School—Back Off Drugs Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 698)

National Burn Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 410, 432; H.J. Res. 737)

National Cancer Institute: grants for research on adoptive immunotherapy (see S. 2305)

National Commission on Health Care Reform: establish (see H.R. 5736)

National CPR Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 426; H.J. Res. 720)

National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 273)

National Diabetes Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 318; H.J. Res. 602)

National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 324; H.J. Res. 554)

National Down's Syndrome Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 321; H.J. Res. 568)

National Drug Abuse Education Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 386; H.J. Res. 701)

National Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 639)

National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 373)

National Home Care Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 339)

National Home Health Care Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 718)

National Hospice Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 317; H.J. Res. 586)

National Infection Control Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 623)

National Kidney Program Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 367; H.J. Res. 618)

National Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 525)

National Nursing Home Residents Day: designate (see S.J. Res. 264; H.J. Res. 533)

National Organ and Tissue Donor Act: enact (see S. 2455)

National Osteoporosis Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 285; H.J. Res. 510)

National Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 539)

National Reye's Syndrome Awareness Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 345; H.J. Res. 638)

National Spina Bifida Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 368; H.J. Res. 655)

NIH: restriction on use of grants to obtain animals for research (see H.R. 4871)

NIH Centennial Year: designate (see S.J. Res. 395; H.J. Res. 709)

Nurse practitioners: authority to certify need for certain services (see S. 2920)

———Social Security coverage of certain items and services (see S. 2920)

Nursing homes: basic rights of residents (see S. 2119; H.R. 4279)

———protection of patients (see H.R. 5067)

Occupational health and safety: notification to workers (see S. 2050)

———providing for consideration of H.R. 1309 (see H. Res. 506)

Office of Minority Health: establish (see H.R. 4297)

Older Americans Act: quality assurance system for homecare services (see H.R. 5680)

Older Americans Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week: designate (see S.J. Res. 267; H.J. Res. 532)

Organ procurement and transplantation network: strengthen (see S. 2841)

Parkinson's Disease Amelioration Act: enact (see S. 2094)

Pediatric pulmonary medicine: funds for research, training, and patient service (see S. 2873)

Phobia Awareness Month: designate (see H.J. Res. 535)

Physician Payment Review Commission: additional members (see S. 2602; H.R. 5085)

Pittsburgh, PA: designate Charles E. Kelly VA Medical Center (see H.R. 5657)

Plague: financial assistance to control (see H.R. 4392)

Plant quarantine: restriction on use of first-class mail (see H.R. 5684)

Plants: enforcement of quarantine laws through inspection of certain mail parcels (see H.R. 5601)

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: establish (see S. 2057; H.R. 4723)

Public Health Service Act: authorize research into acquired immune deficiency syndrome in foreign countries (see H.R. 4914)

Radioactive pollution: prohibit imports from countries contaminated by Soviet power plant accident (see H.J. Res. 622)

Radioactivity: State regulation of hazards of production and utilization facilities (see H.R. 5652)

Radon: EPA technical assistance to States and dissemination of information to the public (see S. 2710; H.R. 5312)

Radon gas: tax deduction of expenses for home improvement to mitigate air contaminant (see S. 2577)

Santa Monica Bay, CA: FDA study of toxic contamination of fish (see S. 2126; H.R. 4277)

School-based adolescent health services demonstration projects: establish (see S. 2757)

Shock wave lithotripters: duty (see S. 2597)

Smoking: Dept. of HHS television announcements on health risks for women (see S. 2434)

Social Security: disability insurance program (see H. Con. Res. 408)

———payments for costs of printing and mailing checks (see S. 2600)

———permit States to provide home and community-based services to low-income individuals with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (see H.R. 4915)

———prospective payment rates for outpatient maintenance dialysis services (see S. 2646)

Social Security Administration: establish as independent agency (see H.R. 5050)

SSI: benefits to certain workers with medical impairment (see S. 2209; H.R. 4450)

———concurrent notification of eligibility for medicaid benefits to certain handicapped (see S. 2209; H.R. 4450)

States: recommend measures for medical cost and quality control (see H. Res. 386)

Taxation: restore 5% medical expense deduction (see H.R. 5609)

Tax-exempt organizations: registration when providing medical care and prescription drugs (see H.R. 4482)

Transplantation of organs: immunosuppressive drugs (see H.R. 5146)

———preference to U.S. citizens and permanent residents in hospitals participating in medicare program (see H.R. 5567)

———strengthen procurement and transplantation network (see S. 2841)

U.S. Health Act: enact (see H.R. 5070)

University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences: establish cancer research center (see H.R. 4587)

VA: contracts for medical care in geographically inaccessible areas (see H.R. 4660)

———designation of certain outpatient clinics as centers of geriatric research, education, and clinical activities (see H.R. 5731)

———efficiency and economy of health facilities (see H.R. 4839)

———improve certain medical programs (see S. 2445)

———parking at medical facilities (see S. 2422)

———sharing of medical care resources with Dept. of Defense (see S. 2627; H.R. 5157)

VA Readjustment Counseling Professional Fellowship Program: establish (see S. 2359)

Vaccination: development of preventive medicine and compensation for certain injuries (see H.R. 5184)

———supply for children (see H.R. 4777)

———U.S.-Soviet cooperation (see H. Res. 430)

Vaccines: compensation for victims of related injuries (see H.R. 5546)

———development and improvement of preventive medicine (see H.R. 5546)

Veterans: civil actions and disability compensation for exposure to certain ionizing radiation (see S. 2898)

———exempt certain benefits from Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act's sequestration orders (see S. 2186, 2187; H.R. 4391)

———improve various aspects of VA medical care programs (see S. 2388)

Vietnam veterans: readjustment counseling (see H.R. 4623)

Essays

Biggest Problem Teenagers Face Today: Heather L. Kimmel, 29121 [6OC]

———Katherine Shenasky, 29121 [6OC]

———Lauren Casey, 29121 [6OC]

———Stephanie Cyran, 29122 [6OC]

Live, Learn, and Enjoy, 14762 [20JN]

Examples

Technologies inhibited by medicare, 11328 [20MY]

Explanations

Amendment to the drug control bill to assure access for eligible homeless persons to Government assistance programs, 26733 [27SE]

Importance of Aplastic Anemia Research: Aplastic Anemia Foundation, 8309 [22AP]

Factsheets

Bubonic Plague, 8161 [21AP]

Medicare Payment for Therapeutic Shoes: American Diabetes Association, 4237 [11MR]

Interviews

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Myron Essex with New York (NY) Times (excerpt), 4433 [12MR]

Reflections of an advocate for research and health promotion: Frederick A. King with Jacob K. Javits, 16444-16446 [15JY]

Letters

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Aetna (company), 28402 [3OC]

———Great-West Life Assurance Co., 28402 [3OC]

———Mutual of Omaha (company), 28402 [3OC]

———Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co., 28401 [3OC]

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome research: Senator Cranston, 22536 [10SE]

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome testing for insurance purposes: Brett Fuller, 18696 [1AU]

———Cleveland B. Sparrow, Sr., 18694 [1AU]

———Federation of Citizens Associations of the District of Columbia, 18695 [1AU]

———John D. Bussey, 18695 [1AU]

———John G. Martin, 18695 [1AU]

———T. Burton Pierce, 18696 [1AU]

———several insurance underwriters, 18695 [1AU]

Asbestos in schools: Florida mother, 22623 [10SE]

Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act: Smokeless Tobacco Council, Inc., 1328 [3FE], 1858 [6FE]

Controlling drugs: Theodore D. Mann, 23280 [12SE]

High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act: Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, 19610 [6AU]

Labeling of smokeless tobacco products: Coalition on Smoking OR Health, 1858 [6FE]

Laboratory animal research: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 31341 [15OC]

———Humane Society of the U.S., 31341 [15OC]

Medicaid eligibility: Senator Dole, 4898 [14MR]

Medicare capital payments: Senator Long, 12768 [5JN]

———Senator Packwood, 12768 [5JN]

Medicare enrollment requirements for State and local government employees: city of North Las Vegas, NV, 24813 [19SE]

Medicare funding: Cyril F. Brickfield, 8915 [29AP]

———Jack W. Owen, 8915 [29AP]

———National Governors' Association, 8916 [29AP]

———Senator Baucus, 8914 [29AP]

———several organizations, 8915 [29AP]

Medicare payments: Marguerite Henry, 24879 [19SE]

———Muriel Peterson, 24879 [19SE]

Membership on Physician Payment Review Commission (sundry), 16019 [26JN]

Open letter to Members of Congress: Committee Against D.C. Act 6-170 (AIDS Insurance Act), 24720-24722 [18SE]

Regulation of medical devices: Senator Hatch, 12087 [2JN]

Study of health effects in veterans exposed to radiation: Senator Cranston, 392, 393 [23JA]

———VA, 393 [23JA]

Tax credit for clinical testing of orphan drugs: Dept. of HHS, 14362 [18JN]

Transmissibility of acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Alan M. Dershowitz, 17313 [22JY]

———William A. Haseltine, 17312, 17313 [22JY]

Tribute to Mammobile cancer detection van in the District of Columbia: Judith L. Bader, 22200 [15AU]

U.S. export of untested drugs: sundry, 10040-10046 [8MY]

Veterans' health care programs improvements: Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 10420 [13MY]

———VA, 10420 [13MY]

Lists

Organizations supporting the Access to Health Care Act (S. 2402), 9311 [1MY]

Rare disease organizations supporting additional funding for Orphan Drug Act, 27929 [2OC]

Supporters of the Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act (H.R. 4450), 5560 [19MR]

Witnesses at the Children's Caucus policy forum, 33526 [17OC]

Memorandums

Medicaid Eligibility: Health Care Financing Administration (excerpt), 4897 [14MR]

Tax Credit for Clinical Testing of Orphan Drugs: Fairlea Sheehy, 14363 [18JN]

Messages

U.S.-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program: President Reagan, 11711 [21MY]

Newsletters

Health research—what's it worth?: Representative Obey, 9341 [1MY]

Opinions

Title to land occupied by Wadsworth VAMC: VA General Counsel, 3720 [5MR]

Pamphlets

Schizophrenia Research—40-Year Travesty: Thomas H. Hayes, Thelma I. Hayes, and Les Campbell, 33628 [17OC]

Papers

Transmission of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: International Conference on AIDS (summary), 23265 [12SE]

Petitions

Diseases contracted by former POWs: Shasta County, CA, Board of Supervisors, 23016 [11SE]

Prohibit donations of blood by persons with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (H.R. 3649): Concord, NH, citizen, 8787 [28AP]

Poems

``Sobriety,'' Jerry Kerns, 25386 [23SE]

Press releases

Cooley's Anemia Foundation awards $150,000 for research, 20165 [8AU]

Remarks in House

ABA Advisory Commission on Youth Alcohol and Drug Problems: release of ``Policy Recommendations'', 28687 [3OC]

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 27325 [30SE]

———Center for Disease Control data regarding transmission, 17530 [23JY]

———criminal penalties for conduct known to communicate virus, by Federal employees or in Federal buildings, 28683 [3OC]

———Dept. of Justice opinion regarding employees working on Federal contracts, 21746 [14AU]

———Dept. of Justice position regarding discrimination against victims, 18846 [1AU]

———research funds, 1944 [6FE]

———State measures discouraging transmission, 28683 [3OC]

———transmission, 23264 [12SE], 33638 [17OC]

Agent orange: new test for dioxin exposure for Vietnam veterans, 31235 [14OC]

AIDS Service Coordination Act: enact (H.R. 5305), 18601 [31JY]

Alcoholics Anonymous: founding, 32823 [17OC]

Alcoholism: efforts to provide assistance, 22048 [15AU]

Alzheimer's: associated problems, 15634 [25JN]

———Federal funding for research, 13890 [16JN]

———promote establishment of family support groups, 1049 [30JA]

———third annual mayoral conference, 205 [21JA]

———workshop on health services research, 3004 [26FE]

———workshops, 17007 [17JY]

Alzheimer's disease: efforts to assist victims and families, 27463 [1OC]

———release of New York City Alzheimer's Resource Center publication, 25084 [19SE]

Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Research Act: enact (H.R. 5553), 25066 [19SE]

American Heart Month: observance, 2790 [25FE], 3005 [26FE], 3267 [27FE]

American Liver Foundation National Liver Awareness Month: designate (S.J. Res. 202), 24654 [18SE]

Anabolic steroids: assure appropriate and safe use (H.R. 5695), 30432 [10OC]

Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act: enact (H.R. 4311), 6815 [8AP], 8837 [28AP]

Back Injury Commission Act: enact (H.R. 5681), 30409 [10OC]

Beaver County, PA: onsite cancer treatment center, 33564 [17OC]

Biological Weapons Act: enact (H.R. 5311), 18817 [1AU]

Bubonic plague: Federal financial assistance to control (H.R. 4392), 8160 [21AP]

Burkina Faso: Operation Vaccination Commando child immunization program, 10344 [12MY]

Cancer: prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of history, 29836 [8OC]

———research funding, 10172 [8MY]

Cancer Patients Employment Rights Act: enact (H.R. 1294), 8042 [17AP]

Childhood Vaccine Protection Act: enact (H.R. 5260), 18030 [29JY]

Childhood Vaccine Supply Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4777), 9955 [7MY]

Comprehensive Alzheimer's Assistance, Research, and Education Act: enact (H.R. 2280), 205 [21JA]

Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act: enact (S. 1574), 1324, 1326 [3FE], 1337 [4FE]-1338 [3FE], 2439 [19FE]

Controlled Substances Act: amend (H.R. 5653), 29390 [7OC]

Cooley's anemia: prevention, 21750 [14AU]

Crohn's disease: research, 18854 [1AU]

Dairy products: health benefits, 3026 [27FE]

Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month: designate (H.J. Res. 741), 27509 [1OC]

Diabetes: research funding, 14219 [17JN]

District of Columbia: tribute to Mammobile cancer detection program, 22200 [15AU]

Employment: discrimination against cancer history victims, 18815 [1AU]

———discrimination against persons with history of cancer (H. Con. Res. 321), 22328-22330 [9SE]

———prevent discrimination against cancer victims, 8042 [17AP]

End Stage Renal Disease Network Program: budget reductions, 15617 [25JN]

End Stage Renal Disease Program: administration and regulation changes, 17509 [23JY]

———funding, 19005 [4AU]

EPA: standards for identification and abatement of asbestos in schools (H.R. 4311), 4238 [11MR]

Epidermolysis Bullosa Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 639), 12021 [22MY]

Epstein-Barr virus infection: research, 1320 [30JA]

First Earth Run: sense of House to support (H. Res. 160), 25388 [23SE]

Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 352), 30190 [10OC]

———observance, 8852 [29AP]

General Aviation Tort Reform Act: enact (H.R. 4717), 9138 [30AP]

Handicapped: services funding, 15651 [25JN]

Handicapped Children's Protection Act: enact (S. 415), conference report, 17607-17612 [24JY]

Health: formation of international team for DNA research, 18600 [31JY]

Health Care Financing Administration: coverage for home health care, 32978 [18OC]

Health Protection Act: enact (H.R. 4972), 13173, 13184 [10JN]

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation: preventive health care program, 12832 [5JN]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act: amend (H.R. 4600), 8758, 9000 [29AP]

Influenza vaccination: medicare coverage, 24702 [18SE]

Injury Control Act: enact (S. 2648), 33634 [17OC]

Iron Overload Awareness Day: designate, 29398 [7OC]

Kidney disease: improve administration of end stage, and clarify responsibilities of networks (H.R. 5197), 17001 [17JY]

Liability for aircraft accidents: uniform rules (H.R. 4717), 9138 [30AP]

Long-term care facilities: ensure protection of rights of residents (H.R. 4279), 11122 [15MY]

Lupus Awareness Month: designate (H.J. Res. 531), 2425 [19FE], 3751 [5MR]

Medicaid: concurrent notification of eligibility for SSI benefits to certain handicapped (H.R. 4450), 5560 [19MR]

Medicare: coverage for long-term care and disabled, 17016 [17JY]

———payments for physician services made on an assignment-related basis (H.R. 5732), 32713 [17OC]

———provide coverage of cost for therapeutic shoes for diabetics (H.R. 2543), 4237 [11MR]

———research relative to outcome of specific treatments and surgical procedures (H.R. 4797), 10743 [14MY]

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 298), 21231 [13AU]

Multiple sclerosis: establish eligibility rules for benefits (H.R. 5474), 22186 [15AU]

Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 719), 22754 [10SE]

National Adult Immunization Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 700), 21133 [12AU]

———designate (S.J. Res. 396), 30191 [10OC]

National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 299), 30193 [10OC]

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (S.J. Res. 280), 27507 [1OC]

National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 611), 24658 [18SE]

National Burn Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 410), 30193 [10OC]

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act: enact (H.R. 5184), 16994 [17JY]

———enact (H.R. 5546), 30120 [9OC], 30417 [10OC], 30751-30762 [14OC]

National CPR Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 720), 22753 [10SE]

National Crusade Against Drug Abuse: student essay contest, 29121 [6OC]

National Diabetes Month: designate (H.J. Res. 602), 7799 [16AP]

———designate (S.J. Res. 318), 27506 [1OC]

National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 554), 3993 [6MR]

———designate (S.J. Res.324), 9739 [7MY]

National Down's Syndrome Month: designate (S.J. Res. 321), 13252 [11JN]

National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 362), 24655 [18SE]

National Home Care Week: designate (S.J. Res. 339), 30194 [10OC]

National Hospice Month: observance, 33632 [17OC]

National Kidney Program Day: designate (S.J. Res. 367), 30192 [10OC]

National Lupus Awareness Month: designate (S.J. Res. 279), 16707 [16JY]

National Multiple Sclerosis Society: anniversary, 12291 [3JN]

National Nursing Homes Week: observance, 11122 [15MY]

National Organ and Tissue Donor Protocol Act: enact (H.R. 4945), 12828 [5JN]

National Organ Donor Protocol Act: enact (H.R. 4697), 8997 [29AP]

National Osteoporosis Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 510), 1432 [3FE], 2772 [25FE]

———designate (S.J. Res. 285), 9110 [30AP]

———observance, 10346 [12MY]

National Parkinson's Disease Awareness Month: designate (H.J. Res. 539), 3267 [27FE]

National Spina Bifida Month: designate (H.J. Res. 655), 13659 [12JN]

———designate (S.J. Res. 368), 27505 [1OC]

Native American Diabetes Prevention and Control Act: enact (H.R. 4282), 3257 [27FE]

Neurofibromatosis: research, 11474 [20MY]

New York City Alzheimer's Resource Center: release of publication, ``Agendas for Action—Aging Network Responds to Alzheimer's Disease'', 25084 [19SE]

New-Born Genetic Screening Act: enact (H.R. 5147), 16303 [26JN]

NIH: ensure humane treatment in animal research (H. Con. Res. 351), 16277, 16286 [26JN]

———first fiscal year of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, 30406 [10OC]

NIH Centennial Year: designate (H.J. Res. 709), 21742 [14AU]

———designate (S.J. Res. 395), 30188 [10OC]

Nursing homes: ensure protection of rights of residents (H.R. 4279), 3274 [27FE]

Nutritional Information Labeling Act: enact (H.R. 3751), 3267 [27FE]

Older Americans Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week: designate (S.J. Res. 267), 9740 [7MY]

Orean County, NJ: Board of Freeholders organ donor education and registration program, 33944 [6NO]

Organ Transplantation Policy Act: enact (H.R. 5567), 25090 [19SE]

Organ transplants: provide immunosuppressive drugs to centers (H.R. 5146), 16306 [26JN]

Parkinson Support Groups of America: tribute, 18598 [31JY]

Philadelphia, PA: tribute to Assistance Program for alcoholism and drug abuse, 16272 [26JN]

``Polished Acts'': tribute to program for adolescents, 8993 [29AP]

President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped: essay contest, 13038 [9JN]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: enact S. 2057, 32248 [16OC]

Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act: enact (S. 974), 1056 [30JA]

———enact (S. 974), appointment of conferees, 1971 [6FE]

———enact (S. 974), conference report, 10478 [13MY]

Rehabilitation Act: inclusion of communicable diseases in definition of handicapped, 16275 [26JN]

Soviet Union: efforts of cancer patients to emigrate, 24722 [18SE]

SSI: concurrent notification of eligibility for medicaid benefits to certain handicapped (H.R. 4450), 5560 [19MR]

———continued benefits to certain workers with medical impairment (H.R. 4450), 5560 [19MR]

Students Against Drunk Driving: efforts for new laws, 10347 [12MY]

Tel-Med Program: recorded health information service, 1320 [30JA]

Tobacco industry: sale and advertisement of smokeless tobacco, 1324, 1326 [3FE], 1337 [4FE]-1338 [3FE]

University of Notre Dame: tribute to the Students for Organ Transplants, 16984 [17JY]

University of Rochester: Organ Procurement Program, 17526 [23JY]

Vaccination: assistance to foreign countries to promote immunization and oral rehydration (S. 1917), 26305 [25SE]

———assistance to foreign countries to promote immunization and oral rehydration (S. 1917), Senate amendments, 28816 [6OC]

Veterans: judicial review of disability claims, 25375 [22SE]

Veterans' Compensation and Benefits Improvements Act: enact (S. 1887), 22037 [15AU]

Wicomico County, MD: student essay contest on youth issues, 27746 [1OC]

Yale University: establishment of the Cancer Control Research Unit, 10264 [9MY]

Remarks in Senate

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome: improve counseling, education, and services (S. 2345), 8124, 8125 [21AP], 19602 [6AU]

———make grants for demonstration projects, 28399-28401 [3OC]

———repeal District of Columbia's insurance antidiscrimination, 28401-28403 [3OC]

———research funding, 7413 [14AP]

ACTION Agency: evaluation of programs, 16344 [14JY]

Aesculapius International Medicine Foundation: commend for activities in El Salvador, 3123 [27FE]

Agriculture: Federal-State program to detect and eradicate citrus canker (S. Res. 376), 6564 [27MR]

———Federal-State program to detect and eradicate citrus canker (S. Res. 377), 6565 [27MR]

Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration: authorizing appropriations (S. 2443), 10407 [13MY]

———revise authorities (S. 2595), 15149 [24JN]

Alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health block grant: State allotments (S. 2087), 2597 [24FE]

Alcoholic beverages: warning labels on hazards of use, 17058 [21JY]

Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Research Act: enact (S. 2846), 25023 [19SE]

———enact (S. 2861), 25684 [23SE]

Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration, Research, Respite, and Assistance Act: enact (S. 1835), 4476 [12MR], 16638 [16JY]

Alzheimer's Disease Research and Assistance Act: enact (S. 2183), 16638 [16JY]

Alzheimer's Disease Research and Assistance Act (S. 2183), 4475 [12MR]

American Heart Month: observance, 1938 [6FE], 2758 [25FE], 2819 [26FE], 3370 [28FE]

American Liver Foundation National Liver Awareness Month: designate, 26905 [29SE]

Americans for Substance Abuse Prevention: tribute, 6026 [24MR]

Animals: use in research, 17542 [24JY]

Antibiotic Safety Act: enact (S. 2935), 32593 [16OC]

Asbestos: EPA standards for identification and abatement in schools (S. 2083), 2537, 2542 [20FE], 22618-22626 [10SE], 23051 [12SE]

———tax rules for accrual of, and carryback of losses from, deduction for product liabilities (S. 2901), 27689 [1OC]

Asbestos Information Clearinghouse Act: enact (S. 2720), 19253 [5AU], 19255 [6AU]

Atomic warfare: liability of defense contractors for losses from certain weapons testing (S. 2454), 26184 [25SE], 28019 [2OC]

Bacteria: EPA standards for antimicrobial agents used to control pest microorganisms (S. 2659), 17108 [21JY]

Bennettsville, SC: relief for the Marlboro County General Hospital (S. 1895), 6594 [27MR], 29523 [8OC]

Blue Cross and Blue Shield: retention of tax exemption (S. Res. 419), 12371 [4JN]

———taxation, 27569 [1OC]

Budget: childhood immunization program funding, 8650-8656 [24AP]

———community health centers funding, 8650 [24AP]

———impact of reductions on domestic programs, 8484 [23AP]

Cancer Research Act: enact (S. 2305), 7786 [16AP]

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Senate training, 4494 [12MR]

Chada, Kiran K.: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Chicago, IL: Mary Thompson Hospital, 9335 [1MY]

Children: extend availability of funding for emergency medical services, 12762 [5JN]

———grant program for certain medical technology dependent (S. 1793), 4089 [7MR], 13744 [13JN]

———oral rehydration therapy treatment, 2399 [19FE]

Children's Caucus: policy forum honoring Save the Children Day, 33525 [17OC]

Cigarette Smoking Public Service Announcements Act: enact (S. 2434), 10289 [12MY], 10401 [13MY]

Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act: enact (S. 1574), 1855-1862 [6FE]

Congressional budget: setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), Education of the Handicapped Act funding, 9289 [1MY]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), funding for education, 8918-8932 [29AP]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), funding for health research, 9026-9030 [30AP]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), medicare funding, 8908-8918 [29AP]

———setting forth for 1987-89 (S. Con. Res. 120), reduce funds for Senate mailing expenses and increase funds for AIDS and Alzheimer's disease research, 9340 [1MY]

Connecticut: National Council on Alcoholism's educational campaign, 30315 [10OC]

Connecticut Hospice: provide for waiver of certain requirements, 28347 [3OC]

Critical Care Week: designate (S.J. Res. 349), 11218 [19MY]

DeLoach, John R.: tribute, 12506 [4JN]

Dept. of HHS: funding for drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs, 26827 [27SE]

———provide for regional referral centers for States previously under waiver under the Social Security Act, 27910 [2OC]

———support for family caregivers information and education demonstration programs (S. 2949), 33502 [17OC]

Dept. of Transportation: require study on blood alcohol content levels of commercial motor vehicle operators, 26757-26759 [27SE]

Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month: designate (H.J. Res. 741), 28570 [3OC]

District of Columbia: amend the composition of the Commission on Mental Health, 28465 [3OC]

———repeal acquired immune deficiency syndrome insurance antidiscrimination law, 18692-18701 [1AU]

Donation of organs: protocols for hospitals participating in medicaid and medicare programs (S. 2808), 22585 [10SE]

———standards for procurement agencies (S. 2808), 22585 [10SE]

Drug Abuse and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation for High-Risk Youth Act: enact (S. 2800), 22458 [9SE]

Drug industry: 7-year marketing privilege for other companies due to simultaneous development (S. 2772), 21933 [15AU]

———establish conditions for exports (S. 1848), 2744 [25FE], 10028-10051, 10060 [8MY], 10326-10337 [12MY], 10376-10401 [13MY], 10571 [14MY]

———obtain information about the export of drugs, 10336 [12MY]

———prohibit shipment to U.S. if drug is found to be present in a country to which shipment is not authorized, 10395-10399 [13MY]

———reform certain regulatory procedures governing the export of banned and severely restricted substances, 10393-10395 [13MY]

———require that any unapproved drug must be subject to new drug application, 10391-10393 [13MY]

———require that the same conditions apply to the export of antibiotic drugs as apply to other drugs, 10336 [12MY]

———requirements relative to exports to developing countries, 10576 [14MY]

———study of labeling for foreign produced drugs, 10571 [14MY]

Drugs: effect of mandatory drug testing on epileptics, 22851 [11SE]

———provide immunosuppressive drugs to organ transplant centers (S. 2540), 13137 [10JN]

DuBois, Ruth: tribute, 28557 [3OC]

Education: grants for graduate training in care of developmentally disabled elderly (S. 2688), 17575 [24JY]

Education of the Handicapped Act: amend and extend (S. 2294), 7378-7383 [14AP], 12918-12925 [6JN], 25740-25742 [24SE]

Emergency Medical Services Week: designate (S.J. Res. 343), 10301 [12MY]

Employment: discrimination against individuals with history of cancer (S. Con. Res. 165), 26540 [26SE]

———express sense relative to discrimination against cancer victims (S. Con. Res. 166), 26465 [26SE]

Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act: enact (S. 2209), 5426 [19MR], 18127 [30JY], 29526, 29530 [8OC]

Enver, Tariq: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

EPA: establish standards for asbestos abatement in public buildings (S. 2300), 7403-7408 [14AP]

———treatment of Indian drinking water systems, 27979 [2OC]

Ex-POWs: medical benefits (S. 2422), 29080 [6OC]

FDA: anniversary of legislation granting authority to regulate medical devices, 12086 [2JN]

———reclassification of transitional devices (S. 2771), 21932 [15AU]

Federal aid programs: access to benefits for homeless, 26732-26735 [27SE]

Federal employees: drug and alcohol education, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation programs, 29178 [7OC]

Federal Health Care Auditing and Quality Control Improvement Act: enact (S. 2625), 15873-15898 [26JN]

Federal Hospital System Sharing Act: enact (S. 2627), 15873-15898 [26JN]

Fortina, Paolo: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Garn, Senator: donation of kidney to daughter, 22554 [10SE]

Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 352), 11759 [21MY], 28654 [3OC]

———designate (S.J. Res. 352), change date of observance, 28654 [3OC]

Gintzig, Leon: annual forum on medical care, 7345 [11AP]

Gohlke, Mary: tribute, 10371 [13MY]

Gordeuk, Victor: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Gray, Walter J.: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Health: efficiency of State mental health care programs, 7908 [17AP]

———establish organ procurement and transplantation network (S. 2841), 24809 [19SE]

———finding a cure for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 10119 [8MY]

———funding for certain hospitals, 27930 [2OC]

———medical practice pattern variations, 4875 [14MR]

———permit planning agencies to operate until 1986 appropriations are spent, 12869, 12908 [6JN]

———rural health care improvement, 33305 [17OC]

———schizophrenia, 7510-7519 [15AP]

Health Care Financing Administration: provide for prompt payment of claims (S. Res. 420), 12375-12378 [4JN]

Health Care Innovation Act: enact (S. 2474), 11325-11329 [20MY]

Health insurance: access (S. 2402), 9307 [1MY]

———access (S. 2403), 9312 [1MY]

Hemophilia Diagnostic and Treatment Centers Program: commend, 23289 [15SE]

High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act: enact (S. 2050), 1722 [5FE]

Hong-Yuan Luo: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy Act: enact (S. 2536), 13130-13132 [10JN], 29424-29427 [8OC]

Indoor Radon Research and Assistance Act: enact (S. 2710), 18776 [1AU]

Infant Mortality Prevention Act: enact (S. 2288), 7322-7323 [11AP], 7794 [16AP]

Insurance: health care coverage for adopted children, 30711 [14OC]

International Cancer Patients Solidarity Committee: efforts to emigrate from Soviet Union, 28505 [3OC]

Kentucky: infant heart transplant recipient, 13589 [12JN], 13686 [13JN]

Laboratories: animal rights and need for research, 31336 [15OC]

Lerner, Norma: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Lupus Awareness Month: designate (S.J. Res. 279), 2615 [24FE]

Malin, David H.: tribute, 7793 [16AP]

Mayo Clinic: expansion to new locations, 6589 [27MR]

McDonald's restaurants: opening of 100th Ronald McDonald House, 23104 [12SE]

Medicaid: amend waiver authority to allow States to offer certain health services to AIDS patients (S. 2527), 12947 [6JN]

———benefit equity, 360 [23JA]

———cost reduction (S. 2776), 21935 [15AU]

———coverage for illegal aliens (S. 2644), 16440 [15JY]

———eligibility, 60 [21JA]

———explanation of program costs, 251 [22JA]

———quality control, 14559 [19JN]

———services to children of low-income families (S. 2649), 16630 [16JY]

———services to pregnant women and infants (S. 2650), 16631 [16JY]

———standards for participating nursing homes (S. 2604), 15961-15965 [26JN]

Medical students: medicare reimbursement in ambulatory care settings (S. 2670), 17237 [22JY]

Medicare: additional members on Physician Payment Review Commission, 15934, 16019, 16044, 16052 [26JN]

———additional members on Physician Payment Review Commission (S. 2602), 15952 [26JN]

———annual preventive health checkup (S. 2400), 9305 [1MY]

———assistance for disabled (S. 873), 11261 [20MY], 13670 [13JN], 15311 [25JN], 16538 [16JY], 31249 [15OC]

———capital payments, 12767 [5JN]

———catastrophic illness coverage, 24812 [19SE]

———certification and recertification of the need for certain services and coverage of these services (S. 2920), 30267 [10OC]

———congressional hearings on payment system, 10752 [15MY]

———cost reduction (S. 2776), 21935 [15AU]

———costs for nonemergency care, 5358 [19MR]

———coverage for disabled (S. 2686), 17574 [24JY]

———coverage for nursing home care, 710 [29JA]

———coverage of physician assistant services (S. 1640), 27293 [30SE]

———eligibility for prospective payment system, 28470 [3OC]

———enrollment requirements for State and local government employees, 24813, 24831, 24877-24879 [19SE]

———ensure quality hospital care for beneficiaries, 5438 [19MR]

———exemption of certain cancer research and treatment centers from prospective payment system (S. 2786), 21963 [15AU]

———funding for research into medical treatments and surgical procedures (S. 2001), 162-164 [21JA]

———funding for research of medical treatments and surgical procedures (S. 2114), 3171 [27FE]

———graduate medical education in ambulatory care settings (S. 2670), 17237 [22JY]

———hospital capital costs, 12909 [6JN]

———improve access to, and quality of program (S. 2655), 16853-16855 [17JY]

———inpatient hospital deductible (S. 2341), 8118 [21AP]

———optional catastrophic, long-term, and preventive benefits through prepaid plans (S. 2358), 8535 [23AP], 13081 [10JN]

———payments to rural hospitals serving disproportionate number of low-income patients, 24899 [19SE]

———physician payment reform, 11265 [20MY]

———prompt payment of claims, 24895 [19SE]

———protect rights of kidney dialysis treatment patients (S. 2547), 13546 [12JN], 14191 [17JN]

———reduction in payments for cataract surgery, 25052 [19SE]

———require timely payment of claims (S. 2576), 14609-14613 [19JN], 17401 [23JY]

———standards for participating nursing homes (S. 2604), 15961-15965 [26JN]

———treatment of small rural hospitals (S. 2410), 26961 [29SE]

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act: enact (S. 2368), 8686-8691 [24AP], 17101 [21JY]

Medicare Quality Protection Act: enact (S. 2331), 7969-7978 [17AP], 16011 [26JN]

Mental Illness Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 298), 5171-5172 [18MR]

Motor vehicles: establish uniform standards for testing, licensing, and qualifications of operators, 26754-26757 [27SE]

Mount Sinai Medical Center: symposium on aging, 12850 [6JN]

Nalepka, Joyce: tribute, 27737 [1OC]

Narcotics: cocaine abuse, 4412 [12MR]

National Adult Day Care Center Week: designate (S.J. Res. 375), 16857 [17JY]

National Adult Immunization Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 396), 21399 [13AU]

National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 299), 5428 [19MR], 23078 [12SE]

National Alzheimer's Disease Month: designate (S.J. Res. 280), 2737 [25FE]

National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 329), 8308 [22AP]

National Asthma Allergy Awareness Week: designate (H.J. Res. 427), 10888 [15MY]

National Burn Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 410), 22850 [11SE]

National Cancer Institute: grants for research on adoptive immunotherapy (S. 2305), 7491 [15AP]

National Childhood Vaccine-Injury Compensation Act: enact (S. 827), 19317 [5AU]

National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality: establish (S. 1209), 29900 [9OC]

National Council of Compulsive Gambling, Inc.: symposium, 23104 [12SE]

National Council on Access to Health Care: establish (S. 1620), 3206 [27FE], 29419 [8OC]

National CPR Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 426), 29930 [9OC], 31280 [15OC]

National Diabetes Month: designate (S.J. Res. 318), 7029 [9AP]

National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 324), 7501 [15AP], 8279 [22AP]

National Down's Syndrome Month: designate (S.J. Res. 321), 7409 [14AP]

National Drug Abuse Education and Prevention Week: designate (S.J. Res. 354), 11760 [21MY]

National Family Caregivers Week: designate (S.J. Res. 348), 10853 [15MY]

National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 373), 16856 [17JY], 23078 [12SE]

National Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 352), 28022 [2OC]

National Home Care Week: designate (S.J. Res. 339), 9667 [6MY]

National Hospice Month: designate (S.J. Res. 317), 7028 [9AP]

National Kidney Program Day: designate (S.J. Res. 367), 14960 [23JN], 17403 [23JY], 20404 [9AU], 31303 [15OC]

National Lupus Awareness Month: designate (S.J. Res. 279), 5969 [21MR]

National Medical Laboratory Week: designate (S.J. Res. 312), 6557 [27MR]

National Nuclear Medicine Week: designate (S.J. Res. 314), 6558 [27MR]

National Organ and Tissue Donor Act: enact (S. 2455), 10839 [15MY]

National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week: observance, 8268 [22AP]

National Osteoporosis Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 285), 3351 [28FE], 4310 [11MR]

National Reye's Syndrome Awareness Week: designate (S.J. Res. 345), 20404 [9AU]

National Spina Bifida Month: designate (S.J. Res. 368), 20404 [9AU]

New Jersey: radon gas contamination in homes, 5440 [19MR]

NIH: findings on establishment of national registry of bone marrow donors, 11651 [21MY]

———reduce funding, 22543 [10SE]

———well-being of research animals, 16447 [15JY]

NIH Centennial Year: designate (S.J. Res. 395), 21398 [13AU]

Older Americans Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week: designate (S.J. Res. 267), 1920 [6FE]

Orphan Drug Act: funding, 27929 [2OC]

Parkinson's Disease Amelioration Act: enact (S. 2094), 2712 [25FE]

PBS: program on drunk driving, 9679 [6MY]

Pediatric Pulmonary Research Act: enact (S. 2873), 25847 [24SE]

Physician Payment Review Commission: additional members (S. 2602), 15952 [26JN]

Prescription Drug Marketing Act: enact (S. 2875), 25848-25851 [24SE]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: establish, 33511 [17OC]

———establish (S. 2057), 1897, 1898 [6FE], 3732 [5MR]

———funding, 22553 [10SE]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act: enact (S. 2057), 13830-13833 [16JN]

Prevention: establish community demonstration program, 26728 [27SE]

———provide opportunity to offer local programs, 26714 [27SE]

Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act: enact (S. 974), appointment of conferees, 1705 [5FE]

———enact (S. 974), conference report, 10588, 10637 [14MY]

Public health: provide funds for planning, 28386-28389 [3OC]

Radon Mitigation Clarification Act: enact (S. 2577), 14614 [19JN]

Research: finding cures for illness, 9341 [1MY]

———funding for acquired immune deficiency syndrome studies, 22536 [10SE]

Rixon, Mark W.: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Rural Health Care Improvement Act: enact (S. 2410), 9661-9663 [6MY], 9922-9924 [7MY], 26961 [29SE]

Sarnoff, Stanley J.: tribute, 3872 [6MR]

Schroeder, William J.: tribute, 20568 [11AU]

Shock wave lithotripters: duty (S. 2597), 15434 [25JN]

Social conditions: public policy, 18130 [30JY]

Social Security: payments for costs of printing and mailing checks (S. 2600), 15440 [25JN]

———prospective payment rates for outpatient maintenance dialysis services (S. 2646), 16618 [16JY]

Solomon, Arlene: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Soviet Union: nuclear reactor accident, 16002 [26JN]

St. Christopher's Hospital, Philadelphia, PA: funding for demonstration project, 28482 [3OC]

State long-term care ombudsman programs: improve (S. 2912), 29165, 29168 [7OC]

Stoeckert, Christian J., Jr.: award recipient, 20165 [8AU]

Taxation: credit for clinical testing of orphan drugs, 14362-14363 [18JN]

———deductions for medical expenses, 14503, 14517 [19JN]

Thompson, Mary H.: tribute, 9335 [1MY]

University of Alabama: funding for Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, 33197 [17OC]

VA: amend determination relative to certain radiogenic diseases, 17546 [24JY], 18585 [31JY]

———funding for alcohol and drug abuse treatment, 30703 [14OC]

———funding for health care, 27980 [2OC]

———need to replace Allen Park, MI, hospital facility, 27979 [2OC]

———need to replace Aspinwall, PA, hospital facility, 27979 [2OC]

———prohibitions against certain real estate transactions (S. 2141), 3719 [5MR], 3972 [6MR]

———quality assurance programs, 9978 [8MY]

VA Readjustment Counseling Professional Fellowship Program: establish (S. 2359), 8536 [23AP]

Vaccination: assistance to foreign countries to promote immunization and oral rehydration (S. 1917), 21765 [15AU], 28549, 28636-28642 [3OC]

———assistance to promote immunization and oral rehydration (S. 1917), 4503 [12MR]

Veterans: civil actions and disability compensation for exposure to certain ionizing radiation (S. 2898), 27278 [30SE]

———exempt certain benefits from Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act's sequestration orders (S. 2187), 4483 [12MR], 15175 [24JN]

———findings of report on radiation exposure, 391 [23JA]

———improve benefits for POWs (S. 2168), 4163 [10MR]

———improve various aspects of VA medical care programs (S. 2388), 9072-9076 [30AP]

Veterans' Benefits Improvement and Health Care Authorization Act: enact (H.R. 5299): correction of explanatory statement, ***** [10OC]

Veterans' Health Care Programs Improvements Act: enact (S. 2445), 10416-10418 [13MY]

Wheldon, Huw: tribute, 6592 [27MR]

World Health Week: observance (S.J. Res. 226), 7349 [11AP]

Youth: establish school-based health care demonstration projects (S. 2757), 21604 [14AU]

Reports

Accomplishments of the John J. Sparkman Center for International Public Health Education, 3657 [5MR]

Caring for the Older Veteran: VA (excerpt), 9073 [30AP]

Competitive Assessment of the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry: Dept. of Commerce (excerpt), 10329 [12MY]

Controlling Drugs: Newton, MA, Mayor's Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 23280 [12SE]

Economic and Educational Benefits of Preschool Programs for Handicapped Children: Dept. of Education (excerpt), 9289 [1MY]

Effects of Legislative Changes in 1981 and 1982 Food Stamp Program: Dept. of Agriculture (excerpt), 15930 [26JN]

Export of Unapproved Antibiotics: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (excerpt), 10386 [13MY]

Federal Response to the Homeless Crisis: Committee on Government Operations (excerpt), 26733 [27SE]

Food Stamp Authorization: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (excerpt), 15928 [26JN]

Food Stamp Program: President's Task Force on Food Assistance (excerpt), 15929 [26JN]

Health Initiatives: American Heart Association (excerpt), 2758 [25FE]

Hunger Counties—Methodological Review of a Report by the Physician Task Force on Hunger: GAO (excerpt), 15931, 15932 [26JN]

Impact of Child Survival Fund and Other Forms of Aid to Third World Countries: Ruth DuBois, 28557 [3OC]

Interim Report on Caring for the Older Veteran: VA, 9074 [30AP]

Medicaid: Center for Social Policy (excerpt), 60 [21JA], 361 [23JA]

Medicare Costs: OTA (excerpt), 5359 [19MR]

Payment Rates for Renal Services and Improvements in Administration of End Stage Renal Disease Networks and Program: Committee on Ways and Means, 19005 [4AU]

Pharmaceutical Export Amendments: sundry, 10386 [13MY]

Radon Task Force, Sweden and New Jersey: Senator Lautenberg, 5440-5443 [19MR]

Resistance of Bacteria to Antibacterial Agents: sundry, 10387 [13MY]

Reports by conference committees

S. 974, Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act, 9458-9464 [5MY]

Reports filed

Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration Authorities: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 5259) (S. Rept. 99-802), 22143 [15AU]

Authorization for Continued Payments of Supplemental Security Income Benefits; Concurrent Notification of Eligibility, Medicaid; and GAO Study: Committee on Finance (S. 2209) (S. Rept. 99-466), 25130 [22SE]

Designate Lupus Awareness Month: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 279), 5664 [20MR]

Designate National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 273), 3957 [6MR]

Designate National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 362), 14595 [19JN]

Designate National Osteoporosis Awareness Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 285), 3957 [6MR]

Designate Older Americans Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 267), 5664 [20MR]

Education of the Handicapped Act Reauthorization: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2294) (S. Rept. 99-315), 12076 [2JN]

EPA Standards for Asbestos Identification and Abatement in Schools: Committee on Environment and Public Works (S. 2083) (S. Rept. 99-427), 22264 [8SE]

Establish National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 1209) (S. Rept. 99-506), 27269 [30SE]

Establishment of National Council on Access to Health Care: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 1620) (S. Rept. 99-489), 26179 [25SE]

Federal Financial Assistance for Control of Plague: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 4392) (H. Rept. 99-972), 29386 [7OC]

Grant Program for Medical Technology for Dependent Children in Home: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 1793) (S. Rept. 99-306), 11713 [21MY]

Grants to States for Drugs for Organ Transplant Patients: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2536) (S. Rept. 99-389), 20551 [11AU]

Improvement of Counseling, Education, and Services Relating to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2345) (S. Rept. 99-337), 17389 [23JY]

Native American Diabetes Prevention and Control: Committee on Indian Affairs (Select) (S. 1988) (S. Rept. 99-311), 12076 [2JN]

President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2057) (S. Rept. 99-307), 11713 [21MY]

Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act: committee of conference (S. 974) (H. Rept. 99-576), 9465 [5MY]

Protection and Advocacy Systems for Mentally Ill and Family Support Groups for Alzheimer Patients: Committee on Rules (H.R. 4055; H. Res. 360) (H. Rept. 99-466), 600 [28JA]

Provision for Compensation for Children Who Have Sustained Vaccine-Related Injuries: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 5546) (H. Rept. 99-908), 26427 [26SE]

———Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 827) (S. Rept. 99-483), 25838 [24SE]

Revise Authorities of Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2595) (S. Rept. 99-333), 16376 [14JY]

Services for the Prevention, Identification, Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Among Indian Youth: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 1156) (H. Rept. 99-733), 18669 [1AU]

———Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs) (H.R. 1156) (H. Rept. 99-733), 22143 [15AU]

System for Preventing Illness Among High Risk Workers of Occupational Disease: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 1309) (H. Rept. 99-691), 16965 [17JY]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 1309; H. Res. 506) (H. Rept. 99-703), 17317 [22JY]

Statements

Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Amendments: Senator Hawkins, 10630 [14MY]

Biotechnology Industry: Harvey Price, 10330 [12MY]

Catastrophic Health Care for the Elderly: Paul Willging, 13081 [10JN]

Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act: Coalition on Smoking OR Health, 1328 [3FE]

Financing Care for Patients With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: Karen Davis, 25024 [19SE]

Food Stamp Program: Representative Bedell, 15928 [26JN]

———Representative Foley, 15928 [26JN]

———Representative Shumway, 15928 [26JN]

Foreign Shipments of Unauthorized Drugs: FDA, 10397 [13MY]

Health Care: Dorothea Dix, 20902 [12AU]

Health Implications of Smokeless Tobacco Use: NIH, 1334 [3FE], 1859-1861 [6FE]

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Dentistry: American Dental Association, 13831 [16JN]

Health Protection Act (excerpts), 13174 [10JN]

Impact of Prospective Payment System on Small and Rural Hospitals: Montana Hospital Association, 9662 [6MY]

Indiscriminate Use of Antimicrobial Drugs: WHO, 10384 [13MY]

Infant Formula Regulations: sundry, 10379 [13MY]

Medicare Costs: Carolyne Davis, 5359 [19MR]

Medicare Coverage: Otis R. Bowen, 24812 [19SE]

———Robert Butler, 24812 [19SE]

Nation's Number One Health Problem: Hazelden Foundation, 26711 [27SE]

NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases: Ralph Snyderman, 30406 [10OC]

Nutritional Information Labeling Act: Virgil Brown (excerpts), 3267 [27FE]

Philadelphia, PA, Assistance Program for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse: James J. Mahoney, Greater Philadelphia Council, AFL-CIO (excerpts), 16272 [26JN]

``Polished Acts''—Statement of Purpose, 8993 [29AP]

Presentation of Research Fellowship to Stanley J. Sarnoff: American Heart Association, 3872 [6MR]

Proposed Budget Reductions in the End Stage Renal Disease Network Program (sundry excerpts), 15617 [25JN]

U.S. Export of Untested Drugs: Alexander M. Schmidt (excerpt), 10385 [13MY]

———Australian Conference for Overseas Aid, 10040 [8MY]

———Australian Ministry, 10037 [8MY]

———Chinese Dominican General Vicariate, 10040 [8MY]

———Coordinating Committee for Primary Health Care of Thai NGOs, 10040 [8MY]

———David B. Sharrock, 10330 [12MY]

———European Economic Community Commission, 10037 [8MY]

———FDA, 10383, 10391 [13MY]

———Federation of Malaysian Consumers Association, 10037 [8MY]

———Frank E. Young, 10391 [13MY]

———Health Action International, 10039, 10040 [8MY]

———Histadrut Consumers Protection Authority, Israel, 10038 [8MY]

———International Chemical Workers Union, 10329 [12MY]

———International Organization of Consumer Unions, Netherlands, 10038 [8MY]

———Israeli Consumers Association, 10039 [8MY]

———Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group, India, 10038 [8MY]

———Kimidi Multi-Sectoral Development Society, 10039 [8MY]

———Member of Australian Parliament, 10037 [8MY]

———Richard M. Furland, 10330 [12MY]

———sundry, 10377, 10378 [13MY]

———U.N., 10385 [13MY]

———University College of London, 10037 [8MY]

———Voluntary Health Association of India, 10038, 10040 [8MY]

U.S. Pharmaceutical Companies Committed To Carrying Out Research Toward Developing Tropical Disease Drugs: OTA, 10034 [8MY]

Use of Antibiotics in the Third World: NIH (excerpt), 10387 [13MY]

What Does a Support Group Have To Offer?: Parkinson Support Groups of America, 18599 [31JY]

Studies

Oral Contraceptives, Chlamydia Trachomatis Infection, and Pelvic Inflammatory Disease—A Word of Caution About Protection: A. Eugene Washington (excerpt), 27874 [2OC]

Summaries

Access to Health Care Act (S. 2402), 9310 [1MY]

Access to Health Care Act (S. 2403), 9317 [1MY]

Aesculapius International Medicine Foundation's El Salvador Medical Project, 3123 [27FE]

Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Research Act (S. 2861), 25688 [23SE]

Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (S. 2083), 22623 [10SE]

Asbestos Information Clearinghouse Act (S. 2720), 19255 [5AU]

EPA Standards for Asbestos Identification and Abatement in Schools (S. 2083), 2542 [20FE]

Federal Building Asbestos Hazard Abatement Act (S. 2300), 7407 [14AP]

Health Care Innovation Act (S. 2474), 11328 [20MY]

Medicare Quality Protection Act (S. 2331), 7970-7972 [17AP]

Medicare Timely Payment amendments (S. 2576), 14610 [19JN]

National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (H.R. 5184), 16995 [17JY]

Tables

Breakdown of cost of osteoporosis: Columbia University, 1433 [3FE]

Cancer consequences of doses reported following Soviet Union's Chernobyl accident, 16004 [26JN]

Omega-3 in fish, 22005 [15AU]

Testimonies

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Testing for Insurance Purposes: Donald Chambers (excerpt), 18693 [1AU]

Alzheimer's Disease: Janet Walsh, 15634 [25JN]

Antibiotic Therapy for Arthritis: E. Douglas Reddan, National Hospital for Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, 19334 [5AU]

Childhood Vaccine Protection Act: Representative Bill Young, 18030 [29JY]

Comprehensive Alzheimer's Assistance, Research, and Education Act: Gladys H. Caregiver, 207 [21JA]

———Jack M. Pollock, 206 [21JA]

———Marion Roach, 205 [21JA]

———Roberta Goodman, 206 [21JA]

Food Stamp Program: John C. Weicher, 15930 [26JN]

———Robert Greenstein, 15930 [26JN]

Funding of Nutrition Programs: J. Larry Brown, 15933 [26JN]

Indian Health Problems: Gilbert Pena (excerpt), 26729 [27SE]

———Larry Miike (excerpt), 26729 [27SE]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 321, employment discrimination against persons with history of cancer, 22328 [9SE]

H. Res. 160, sense of House to support the First Earth Run, 25388 [23SE]

H.J. Res. 367, National Kidney Program Day, 14961 [23JN]

H.J. Res. 510, National Osteoporosis Awareness Week, 1433 [3FE]

H.J. Res. 531, Lupus Awareness Month, 2425 [19FE]

H.J. Res. 554, National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week, 3994 [6MR]

H.J. Res. 602, National Diabetes Month, 7800 [16AP]

H.J. Res. 611, National Aplastic Anemia Awareness Week, 24658 [18SE]

H.J. Res. 709, NIH Centennial Year, 21742 [14AU]

H.J. Res. 741, Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month, 27510 [1OC]

H.R. 4282, Native American Diabetes Prevention and Control Act, 3258 [27FE]

H.R. 4392, provide Federal financial assistance for control of bubonic plague, 8160 [21AP]

H.R. 5205, AIDS Service Coordination Act, 18602 [31JY]

H.R. 5474, establish eligibility rules for benefits for multiple sclerosis victims, 22188 [15AU]

H.R. 5546, National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, 30751-30760 [14OC]

H.R. 5653, Controlled Substances Act amendments, 29391 [7OC]

H.R. 5681, Back Injury Commission Act, 30410 [10OC]

S. 863, motor vehicle safety, 28796-28797 [6OC]

S. 1209, establish National Commission To Prevent Infant Mortality, 29900 [9OC]

S. 1574, Comprehensive Smokeless Tobacco and Health Education Act, 1326 [3FE], 1855-1857 [6FE]

S. 1620, National Council on Access to Health Care, 29418 [8OC]

S. 1835, Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration, Research, Respite, and Assistance Act, 4477-4481 [12MR]

S. 1848, establish conditions for drug exports, 10583 [14MY]

S. 1848, establish conditions for drug industry exports, 10028-10031 [8MY]

S. 1887, Veterans' Compensation and Benefits Improvements Act, 22037-22043 [15AU]

S. 1895, relief for the Marlboro County General Hospital, Bennettsville, SC, 29523 [8OC]

S. 1895, relief for the Marlboro County General Hospital of Bennettsville, SC, 6594 [27MR]

S. 1917, assistance to foreign countries to promote immunization and oral rehydration, 21765, 21767 [15AU]

S. 1917, assistance to promote immunization and oral rehydration, 26305 [25SE]

S. 2001, funding for research into medical treatments and surgical procedures, 163 [21JA]

S. 2050, High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act, 1723-1725 [5FE]

S. 2057, President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 32250 [16OC]

S. 2057, President's Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Act, 13832 [16JN]

S. 2083, Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act, 22618-22623 [10SE]

S. 2083, EPA standards for asbestos identification and abatement in schools, 2538-2542 [20FE]

S. 2087, alcohol, drug abuse, and mental health block grant allotments, 2598 [24FE]

S. 2094, Parkinson's Disease Amelioration Act, 2712 [25FE]

S. 2114, medicare funding for research of medical treatments and surgical procedures, 3172 [27FE]

S. 2141, prohibitions against certain VA real estate transactions, 3720 [5MR]

S. 2183, Alzheimer's Disease Research and Assistance Act, 4475 [12MR]

S. 2187, exempt certain benefits from Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act's sequestration orders, 15175 [24JN]

S. 2187, exempt certain veterans' benefits from Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act's sequestration orders, 4483 [12MR]

S. 2209, Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act, 5426 [19MR], 29526-29527 [8OC]

S. 2294, amend and extend the Education of the Handicapped Act, 7379-7382 [14AP]

S. 2294, Education of the Handicapped Act, 25204-25208 [22SE]

S. 2300, Federal Building Asbestos Hazard Abatement Act, 7405-7407 [14AP]

S. 2305, Cancer Research Act, 7787 [16AP]

S. 2331, Medicare Quality Protection Act, 7972-7976 [17AP]

S. 2341, medicare inpatient hospital deductible, 8119 [21AP]

S. 2368, Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act, 8687 [24AP]

S. 2400, medicare coverage of annual preventive health checkup, 9306 [1MY]

S. 2402, Access to Health Care Act, 9308-9310 [1MY]

S. 2403, Access to Health Care Act, 9314-9317 [1MY]

S. 2410, Rural Health Care Improvement Act, 9661 [6MY]

S. 2434, Cigarette Smoking Public Service Announcements Act, 10290 [12MY]

S. 2443, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Amendments, 10631-10634 [14MY]

S. 2445, Veterans' Health Care Programs Improvements Act, 10418-10419 [13MY]

S. 2474, Health Care Innovation Act, 11326-11327 [20MY]

S. 2527, medicaid-waiver authority to allow States to offer certain health services to AIDS patients, 12948 [6JN]

S. 2536, Immunosuppressive Drug Therapy Act, 13130 [10JN], 29424 [8OC]

S. 2547, protect rights of medicare kidney dialysis treatment patients, 13547 [12JN], 14191 [17JN]

S. 2576, require timely payment of medicare claims, 14610 [19JN], 17401 [23JY]

S. 2577, Radon Mitigation Clarification Act, 14614 [19JN]

S. 2595, revise authorities of the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, 15149-15153 [24JN]

S. 2597, suspend duty on shock wave lithotripters, 15434 [25JN]

S. 2600, payments for costs of printing and mailing Social Security checks, 15440 [25JN]

S. 2604, Nursing Home Quality Reform Act, 15962-15965 [26JN]

S. 2625, Federal Health Care Auditing and Quality Control Improvement Act, 15885 [26JN]

S. 2627, Federal Hospital System Sharing Act, 15889 [26JN]

S. 2644, medicaid coverage for illegal aliens, 16441 [15JY]

S. 2646, make no change in prospective payment rates for outpatient maintenance dialysis services, 16618 [16JY]

S. 2667, Infant Mortality Reduction and Child Health Act, 17125 [21JY]

S. 2710, Indoor Radon Research and Assistance Act, 18777 [1AU]

S. 2720, Asbestos Information Clearinghouse Act, 19254 [5AU]

S. 2771, reclassification of transitional devices, 21933 [15AU]

S. 2772, Orphan Drug Act amendments, 21934 [15AU]

S. 2776, Health Care Financing Reform Act amendments, 21935-21942 [15AU]

S. 2791, Informed Consent Act, 21967 [15AU]

S. 2800, Drug Abuse and Alcohol Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation for High-Risk Youth Act, 22459 [9SE]

S. 2846, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Research Act, 25024-25026 [19SE]

S. 2861, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Services Research Act, 25685-25688 [23SE]

S. 2873, Pediatric Pulmonary Research Act, 25848 [24SE]

S. 2875, Prescription Drug Marketing Act, 25849 [24SE]

S. 2912, State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Advocacy Improvement Act, 29166-29168 [7OC]

S. 2920, medicare certification and recertification of the need for certain services and coverage of these services, 30268 [10OC]

S. 2935, Antibiotic Safety Act, 32594 [16OC]

S. Con. Res. 165, employment discrimination against individuals with history of cancer, 26540 [26SE]

S. Con. Res. 166, employment discrimination against individuals with history of cancer, 26466, 26541 [26SE]

S. Res. 376, Federal-State program to detect and eradicate citrus canker, 6564 [27MR]

S. Res. 377, Federal-State program to detect and eradicate citrus canker, 6564 [27MR]

S. Res. 420, prompt payment of medicare claims, 12376 [4JN]

S.J. Res. 202, American Liver Foundation National Liver Awareness Month, 24655 [18SE]

S.J. Res. 241, National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Week, 9414 [5MY]

S.J. Res. 267, Older Americans Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Week, 5969 [21MR], 9740 [7MY]

S.J. Res. 279, National Lupus Awareness Month, 5969 [21MR], 16707 [16JY]

S.J. Res. 280, National Alzheimer's Disease Month, 2738 [25FE], 8276 [22AP], 27509 [1OC]

S.J. Res. 285, National Osteoporosis Awareness Week, 3351 [28FE], 4310 [11MR], 9111 [30AP]

S.J. Res. 298, Mental Illness Awareness Week, 5171 [18MR], 8277 [22AP], 21231 [13AU]

S.J. Res. 299, National Alopecia Areata Awareness Week, 23078 [12SE], 30193 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 312, National Medical Laboratory Week, 8278 [22AP]

S.J. Res. 314, National Nuclear Medicine Week, 6558 [27MR]

S.J. Res. 317, National Hospice Month, 7028 [9AP], 8278 [22AP]

S.J. Res. 318, National Diabetes Month, 7029 [9AP], 8278 [22AP], 27507 [1OC]

S.J. Res. 321, National Down's Syndrome Month, 7409 [14AP], 8279 [22AP], 13252 [11JN]

S.J. Res. 324, National Digestive Diseases Awareness Week, 8279 [22AP], 9739 [7MY]

S.J. Res. 339, National Home Care Week, 25868 [24SE], 30194 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 343, Emergency Medical Services Week, 10301 [12MY]

S.J. Res. 345, National Reye's Syndrome Awareness Week, 20404 [9AU]

S.J. Res. 352, Gaucher's Disease Awareness Week, 11759 [21MY], 30190 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 362, National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week, 24656 [18SE]

S.J. Res. 367, National Kidney Program Day, 20404 [9AU], 30192 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 368, National Spina Bifida Month, 20404 [9AU], 27506 [1OC]

S.J. Res. 373, National Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Week, 16857 [17JY], 23078 [12SE]

S.J. Res. 395, NIH Centennial Year, 25869 [24SE], 30188 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 396, National Adult Immunization Awareness Week, 25869 [24SE], 30192 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 410, National Burn Awareness Week, 22850 [11SE], 28562 [3OC], 30193 [10OC]

S.J. Res. 426, National CPR Awareness Week, 31280 [15OC]