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10/01/2012

IDSA Voices Concern on House-Proposed National Institutes of Health (NIH) Policies (PDF)

IDSA joined other medical societies, research institutions and patient groups to express concern over proposed policies, including lowering the salary cap for NIH grantees.

07/29/2011

IDSA Urges Congress to Establish New National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) in NIH (PDF)

IDSA and others sent letters to congressional appropriations committee leaders urging them to establish NCATS in the FY 2012 appropriations bill to move high-need medical cures through the development pipeline faster.

06/25/2009

IDSA Supports Continued Investment in Comparative Effectiveness Research (PDF)

A coalition of medical societies sent a letter to U.S. Senators supporting its investment in Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER). The coalition urges the Senate to maintain its investment in CER so that physicians can continue to rely on evidence-based medicine to provide quality care to its patients.

05/12/2009

IDSA Endorses Legislation to Strengthen Public Health Surveillance Infrastructure (PDF)

IDSA joined other organizations in support of new legislation to support public health capacity to identify and monitor the occurrence of infectious diseases and other conditions of public health importance, including laboratory capacity to detect antimicrobial resistant infections; and to improve electronic disease surveillance and reporting.

09/05/2008

Letter to Senators McCain and Obama (PDF)

IDSA and HIVMA call on the presidential candidates to promote a science-based approach to public health policy, including immunization safety, sexuality education programs, access to clean syringes and needles for injecting drug users, and diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.

07/13/2007

IDSA Endorses Access to Medicare Data Act of 2007 (PDF)

A bill introduced by Senate Finance Committee leaders Charles Grassley and Max Baucus would advance medical research into antimicrobial resistance and other areas by providing federal health officials and other health researchers with controlled access to data on physician and prescription drug claims processed on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries.

06/07/2006

IDSA Expresses Concern about the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 (PDF)

IDSA signed onto a letter that was sent to Senators Cornyn, Lieberman, and Collins expressing concern that the Act will negatively impact the journal article peer-review process and erode the ability of not-for-profit societies to provide services to the public and scientific community.

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