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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Medical research</title>
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  <updated>2013-05-08T20:00:00Z</updated>
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  <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007:/issue_feed/5336</id>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1915 Gestational Diabetes Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1915/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-08:/action/358454</id>
    <updated>2013-05-08T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.895 Antimicrobial Data Collection Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s895/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-07:/action/358192</id>
    <updated>2013-05-07T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to improve the ability of the Food and Drug Administration to study the use of antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.907 Gestational Diabetes Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s907/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-07:/action/357968</id>
    <updated>2013-05-07T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide grants to better understand and reduce gestational diabetes, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.908 Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia Diagnosis and Treatment Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s908/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-07:/action/357962</id>
    <updated>2013-05-07T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the diagnosis and treatment of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.877 Veterans Affairs Research Transparency Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s877/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-06:/action/357941</id>
    <updated>2013-05-06T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to allow public access to research of the Department, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.865 Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s865/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-05:/action/357685</id>
    <updated>2013-05-05T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for the establishment of a Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1830 Accelerating the End of Breast Cancer Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1830/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-05:/action/357787</id>
    <updated>2013-05-05T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for the establishment of a Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1724 Kids First Research Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1724/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/356809</id>
    <updated>2013-04-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To eliminate taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns and party conventions and reprogram savings to provide for a 10-year pediatric research initiative through the Common Fund administered by the National Institutes of Health, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Res.118 A resolution supporting the designation of April as Parkinson's Awareness Month.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-sr118/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/356883</id>
    <updated>2013-04-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A resolution supporting the designation of April as Parkinson's Awareness Month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.852 Veterans' Health Promotion Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s852/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/356824</id>
    <updated>2013-04-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to improve health care furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs by increasing access to complementary and alternative medicine and other approaches to wellness and preventive care, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1740 Patients First Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1740/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/356919</id>
    <updated>2013-04-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To intensify stem cell research showing evidence of substantial clinical benefit to patients, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.Res.116 A resolution designating September 26, 2013, as &quot;National Pediatric Brain Cancer Awareness Day&quot;.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-sr116/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/356785</id>
    <updated>2013-04-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A resolution designating September 26, 2013, as &quot;National Pediatric Brain Cancer Awareness Day&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1757 Vaccine Safety Study Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1757/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/357012</id>
    <updated>2013-04-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct or support a comprehensive study comparing total health outcomes, including risk of autism, in vaccinated populations in the United States with such outcomes in unvaccinated populations in the United States, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1666 Patient Centered Quality Care for Life Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1666/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-22:/action/356261</id>
    <updated>2013-04-22T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To create a patient-centered quality of care initiative for seriously ill patients through the establishment of a stakeholder strategic summit, quality of life education and awareness initiative, health care workforce training, an advisory committee, and palliative care focused research, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1661 Improving Cancer Treatment Education Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1661/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-18:/action/356108</id>
    <updated>2013-04-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide comprehensive cancer patient treatment education under the Medicare program and to provide for research to improve cancer symptom management.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1615 Examining America's Mental Health Services Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1615/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-17:/action/355939</id>
    <updated>2013-04-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for a study by the Institute of Medicine on gaps in mental health services and how these gaps can increase the risk of violent acts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1619 Making Investments Now for Dementia Act of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1619/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-17:/action/355855</id>
    <updated>2013-04-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To authorize the issuance of United States bonds to fund Alzheimer's research.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1645 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-h1645/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-17:/action/355932</id>
    <updated>2013-04-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.773 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-s773/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-17:/action/355879</id>
    <updated>2013-04-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Con.Res.31 Supporting Rare Pituitary Disease Awareness.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/113-hc31/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-14:/action/355440</id>
    <updated>2013-04-14T20:00:00Z</updated>
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Supporting Rare Pituitary Disease Awareness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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