HEALTH RESEARCH AND QUALITY ACT

Amendments

Enact (H.R. 2506), H8470 [21SE], H8557, H8558 [22SE], H8629 [23SE], H8666 [24SE], H8873, H8874 [27SE], H8917, H8918, H8919, H8920, H8921, H8922, H8923, H8926, H8927, H8929, H8932, H8937, H8939, H8940 [28SE]

Articles and editorials

Hospital Errors Kill Thousands of Patients Each Year, H8931 [28SE]

Bills and resolutions

Enact (H.R. 2506): consideration (see H. Res. 299), H8555 [22SE]

Letters

Study potential shortage of licensed pharmacists: Charles F. Monahan, Jr., Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences, H8938 [28SE]

———Robert W. Hannan, National Association of Chain Drug Stores, H8938 [28SE]

Remarks in House

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research: consider shortages of trained researchers who are members of priority populations when allocating training funds, H8918, H8919 [28SE]

———designation of inner-city areas as a priority population, H8919, H8920 [28SE]

———encourage awarding of health care technology grants to minority institutions of higher education, H8921, H8922 [28SE]

———establish Office on Special Populations, H8920, H8921 [28SE]

———establish web site to provide consumers with independent information on health insurance choices, H8918 [28SE]

———promote evidence-based clinical practices for examination and treatment of sexual assault victims and train health professionals in performance of medical evidentiary examinations, H8922 [28SE]

———require report on disparities in health care delivery relative to racial and socio-economic factors in priority populations, H8921 [28SE]

———require research on health care services for women relative to cancer and cardiovascular diseases, H8923 [28SE]

———require research on methods to reduce prescription drug prices, H8923-H8926 [28SE]

———require studies of financial and quality effects of increasing access to health care services, H8926-H8929 [28SE], E1999 [1OC]

———telemedicine services report, H8939, H8940 [28SE], H10038 [14OC]

Buy American Act: compliance, H8940 [28SE]

Dept. of HHS: study potential shortage of licensed pharmacists, H8937-H8939 [28SE]

Enact (H.R. 2506), H8432 [21SE], H8911-H8941 [28SE], E1540 [14JY], E1992 [29SE], E1999, E2011 [1OC], E2526 [19NO]

———consideration (H. Res. 299), H8910, H8911 [28SE]

Health care facilities: provide payments to children's hospitals that operate graduate medical education programs, H8933-H8937 [28SE], E1992 [29SE]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 2506, Provisions: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 299) (H. Rept. 106-328), H8555 [22SE]

Provisions: Committee on Commerce (House) (H.R. 2506) (H. Rept. 106-305), H7995 [8SE]

Summaries

Provisions (H.R. 2506), E1541 [14JY]

Texts of

H. Res. 299, consideration of H.R. 2506, provisions, H8910 [28SE]