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• Latest Action: Mar 26, 2012 Introduced in Senate

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• Committee Assignment: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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• Onyx Pharmaceuticals

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• Treat ALS Now

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• Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure

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• Accelerate Cure/Treatments for Alzheimers Disease

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• Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma Research Foundation

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• AHAF Alzheimer's Disease Research

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• Alliance for Aging Research

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• Alpha-1 Foundation

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• Alzheimer's Association

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• American Association for Cancer Research

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• American Association for Respiratory Care

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• Association of American Cancer Institutes

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• Cancer Support Community

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• C-Change

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• COPD Foundation

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• Facing our Risk of Cancer Empowered

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• FasterCures

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• Fight Colorectal Cancer

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• Friends of Cancer Research

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• Intercultural Cancer Caucus

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• Kidney Cancer Association

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• Lung Cancer Alliance

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• LUNGevity Foundation

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• Lupus Research Institute National Coalition

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• Mental Health America

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• National Alliance for Caregiving

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• National Alliance on Mental Illness

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• National Brain Tumor Society

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• National Coalition for Cancer Research

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• National Comprehensive Cancer Network

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• National Organization for Rare Disorders

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• National Patient Advocate Foundation

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• Oncology Nursing Society

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• Ovarian Cancer National Alliance

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• Prevent Cancer Foundation

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• Sjogrens Syndrome Foundation

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• Society for Women's Health Research

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• Society of Gynecologic Oncology

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• U.S. Pain Foundation

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• United Cerebral Palsy

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• USAgainstAlzheimer's

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• Vital Options International

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• Alpha-1 Association

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• Sarcoma Foundation of America

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• Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

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• Advancing Breakthrough Therapies for Patients Act of 2012 (S. 2236 ... - March 25, 2012 by http://www.govtrack.us/users/events.xpd?monitors=misc:activebills - S. 2236. A bill to provide for the expedited development and evaluation of drugs designated as breakthrough drugs. In GovTrack.us, a database of bills in the U.S. Congress.

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  As noted by http://www.govtrack.us/users/events.xpd?monitors=misc:activebills on March 25, 2012, "S. 2236. A bill to provide for the expedited development and evaluation of drugs designated as breakthrough drugs. In GovTrack.us, a database of bills in the U.S. Congress." (/url?q=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s2236&sa=U&ei=m4wVUNt2ovDSAa6XgaAK&ved=0CB0QmAEwAA&usg=AFQjCNHOg8egqT0N0uEUDEThsnRj99k7mw)
• Advancing Breakthrough Therapies for Patients Act of 2012 (S. 2236 ... - March 25, 2012 by http://www.govtrack.us/users/events.xpd?monitors=misc:activebills - S. 2236. A bill to provide for the expedited development and evaluation of drugs designated as breakthrough drugs. In GovTrack.us, a database of bills in the U.S. Congress.

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  As noted by http://www.govtrack.us/users/events.xpd?monitors=misc:activebills on March 25, 2012, "S. 2236. A bill to provide for the expedited development and evaluation of drugs designated as breakthrough drugs. In GovTrack.us, a database of bills in the U.S. Congress." (/url?q=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s2236&sa=U&ei=97YSUOvUFsTV0QG01IGYCQ&ved=0CB0QmAEwAA&usg=AFQjCNHeYoltXRhN4cbm1Wz2wAz_uBMhiw)
• Advancing Breakthrough Therapies for Patients Act of 2012 (S. 2236 ... - March 25, 2012 by http://www.govtrack.us/users/events.xpd?monitors=misc:activebills - S. 2236. A bill to provide for the expedited development and evaluation of drugs designated as breakthrough drugs. In GovTrack.us, a database of bills in the U.S. Congress.

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• Watch Cellceutix Closely For Potential Catalysts In 2013 - December 10, 2012 by Seeking Alpha - ...stocks. That is changing as the regulatory landscape changes with the adoption of new breakthrough therapies standards by the FDA. S.2236 Advancing Breakthrough Therapies for Patients Act of 2012 may become law this summer. With a ground breaking new ca

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• Even If Bills to Hasten Drug Approvals Pass, Investments May Remain Dry Longer than Stakeholders Claim - May 02, 2012 by Genetic Engineering News - Congress appears poised this year to deliver on years of lobbying by industry to speed up reviews of new drugs and cut regulatory red tape. That helping hand alone, however, isn’t likely enough to draw investors, still shell-shocked by the ...

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• Even If Bills to Hasten Drug Approvals Pass, Investments May Remain Dry Longer than Stakeholders Claim - May 01, 2012 by Genetic Engineering News - Congress appears poised this year to deliver on years of lobbying by industry to speed up reviews of new drugs and cut regulatory red tape. That helping hand alone, however, isn’t likely enough to draw investors, still shell-shocked by the ...

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