President Barack Obama
President Obama released his FY 2010 budget request. The budget requests $30.838 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), a 1.4 percent increase ($443 million) over the FY 2009 level. This includes $5.15 billion for the National Cancer Institute (NCI) or $181 million more than the FY 2009 funding level. Read the rest of this entry »
Carlea Bauman
Carlea Bauman, President of C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition spoke today. April 20, 2009, at a public meeting called by the National Institutes of Health to hear input on expansion of its clinical trials registry.
In calling for the ClinicalTrials.Gov database to include results of all clinical trials, Bauman said,
C3:Colorectal Cancer Coalition is committed to providing results of clinical trials that affect patients with colon and rectal cancer fairly and honestly, providing both positive and negative conclusions, and helping patients to understand what the results mean to them in language they can understand.
The House of Representatives passed the FY 2009 omnibus spending bill on Wednesday, February 25. The Senate will consider the bill the week of March 2, 2009. The Continuing Resolution that is funding most of the federal government expires on March 6, 2009, so action must be completed by week’s end. Read the rest of this entry »
After passage in both the House and Senate on Friday, President Barack Obama is set to sign the very controversial $787 billion economic stimulus package in Denver today. Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Raynard Kington
After more than six years as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Elias Zerhouni stepped down on Friday, October 31st. Dr. Zerhouni presided over the nation’s primary public funding source for biomedical research. Zerhouni tapped Dr. Raynard Kington to temporarily step into this role. Read the rest of this entry »
