2013-05-12T20:00:00Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/issue_feed/5517 tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-12:/action/358582 2013-05-12T20:00:00Z A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to raise awareness of, and to educate breast cancer patients anticipating surgery, especially patients who are members of racial and ethnic minority groups, regarding the availability and coverage of breast reconstruction, prostheses, and other options.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-05:/action/357685 2013-05-05T20:00:00Z A bill to provide for the establishment of a Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-05-05:/action/357787 2013-05-05T20:00:00Z To provide for the establishment of a Commission to Accelerate the End of Breast Cancer.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-25:/action/357107 2013-04-25T20:00:00Z To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans to provide for coverage of oral anticancer drugs on terms no less favorable than the coverage provided for anticancer medications administered by a health care provider.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-24:/action/356785 2013-04-24T20:00:00Z A resolution designating September 26, 2013, as "National Pediatric Brain Cancer Awareness Day".<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-23:/action/356712 2013-04-23T20:00:00Z To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow refunds of Federal motor fuel excise taxes on fuels used in mobile mammography vehicles.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-18:/action/356108 2013-04-18T20:00:00Z 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.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-17:/action/355932 2013-04-17T20:00:00Z To amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-17:/action/355879 2013-04-17T20:00:00Z A bill to amend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to improve compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-11:/action/355334 2013-04-11T20:00:00Z To require that health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies, lumpectomies, and lymph node dissection for the treatment of breast cancer and coverage for secondary consultations.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-11:/action/355294 2013-04-11T20:00:00Z Expressing support for designation of April 15, 2013, through April 21, 2013, as National Minority Cancer Awareness Week.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-04-09:/action/355001 2013-04-09T20:00:00Z A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to ensure that risks from chemicals are adequately understood and managed, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-20:/action/353856 2013-03-20T20:00:00Z To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to improve coverage for colorectal screening tests under Medicare, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-19:/action/353655 2013-03-19T20:00:00Z To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish and provide a checkoff for a Breast and Prostate Cancer Research Fund, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-18:/action/353486 2013-03-18T20:00:00Z A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act and title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act to improve coverage for colorectal screening tests under Medicare and private health insurance coverage, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-11:/action/352400 2013-03-11T20:00:00Z To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to waive coinsurance under Medicare for colorectal cancer screening tests, regardless of whether therapeutic intervention is required during the screening.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-10:/action/352349 2013-03-10T20:00:00Z A bill to reduce disparities and improve access to effective and cost efficient diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer through advances in testing, research, and education, including through telehealth, comparative effectiveness research, and identification of best practices in patient education and outreach particularly with respect to underserved racial, ethnic and rural populations and men with a family history of prostate cancer, to establish a directive on what constitutes clinically appropriate prostate cancer imaging, and to create a prostate cancer scientific advisory board for the Office of the Chief Scientist at the Food and Drug Administration to accelerate real-time sharing of the latest research and accelerate movement of new medicines to patients.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-06:/action/352052 2013-03-06T19:00:00Z A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow refunds of Federal motor fuel excise taxes on fuels used in mobile mammography vehicles.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-05:/action/351864 2013-03-05T19:00:00Z A resolution congratulating the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon on its continued success in support of the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2013-03-05:/action/351827 2013-03-05T19:00:00Z Congratulating the Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon on its continued success in support of the Four Diamonds Fund at Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.<br /><br />