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Updates about legislative and regulatory issues impacting the field of sleep medicine
Susan B. Shurin, MD, who had been deputy director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute since February 2006, became acting director of the NHLBI on Dec. 1, 2009.
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NIH call for applications and program announcement
The House of Representatives approved the Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962).
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has delayed the enforcement date of the "red flags" rule until June 1, 2010, for financial institutions and creditors.
House Democrats have introduced legislation (HR 3961) that would end the yearly ritual of canceling automatic cuts in Medicare physician payment rates after the Senate failed to do so last month.
Elizabeth G. Nabel, MD, will step down as director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to become president of Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals in Boston.
House Democratic leaders this week unveiled final health system reform bill (HR 3962).
NIH Roadmap Transformative Research Awards provide up to $25 million total costs per year for a single project.