May 29, 2009. The Physician Payments Sunshine Act would bring much needed transparency to the often secretive financial relationships between medical products manufacturers and health care professionals.
Read More »We’re Speaking Out on Health Issues
NCHR scientists and health policy experts provide written and oral statements on a wide range of topics.
Here are many of the ways we have been Speaking Out on Health Policy Issues for the last few years. Whether the topic is legislation intended to cure diseases, proposed bans on BPA or other chemicals that disrupt your hormones, the importance of including women, people of color, and patients over 65 in clinical trials, or many other topics, you’ll gain a better understanding of our evidence-based analyses by reading these letters, statements, and testimony.
Here are the ways we have been Speaking out on Medical Treatments and Products, such as prescription drugs and medical devices that the FDA is considering approving, or is considering taking off the market because of serious risks. Whether the topic is Chantix, Addyi, Yaz, Essure, or medical products you’ve never heard of, you can find out more about what is known and not known about the safety and effectiveness of a wide range of products by looking through this section of our website.
NCHR Letter to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) supporting S. 925, the “Safe Baby Products Act of 2009”
May 19, 2009. On behalf of the National Research Center for Women & Families, I am writing to express our strong support for S. 925, the “Safe Baby Products Act of 2009,” which would examine cosmetics and personal care products marketed to children for impurities.
Read More »NCHR Letter to U.S. Sentor Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) Supporting the “Safe Baby Products Act of 2009”
May 19, 2009. On behalf of the National Research Center for Women & Families, I am writing to express our strong support for S. 925, the “Safe Baby Products Act of 2009,” which would examine cosmetics and personal care products marketed to children for impurities.
Read More »Letter to U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (IA) Supporting S. 934, the “Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2009”
May 15, 2009. On behalf of the National Research Center for Women & Families, I am writing to express our strong support for S. 934, the “Child Nutrition Promotion and School Lunch Protection Act of 2009.”
Read More »NCHR Testimony Before DC Health Committee on HPV
April 9, 2009. Like all of you, I am interested in the health and safety of D.C.’s citizens, and like many of you I was, until recently, strongly in favor of mandating the HPV vaccine for girls. Who among us wouldn’t gladly immunize our daughters to protect them from cervical cancer?
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