108th Congress / Bills / S 15

Title

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide protections and countermeasures against chemical, radiological, or nuclear agents that may be used in a terrorist attack against the United States by giving the National Institutes of Health contracting flexibility, infrastructure improvements, and expediting the scientific peer review process, and streamlining the Food and Drug Administration approval process of countermeasures.

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Access to health care | Actions and defenses | Administrative procedure | AIDS (Disease) | Antibiotics | Antitrust law | Appropriations | Armed forces | Biological warfare | Black colleges | Brain diseases | Budgets | Business | Chemical warfare | Child health | Children | Clinical trials | Clinics | Colleges | Communication in medicine | Communications | Compensation (Law) | Congress | Congressional investigations | Congressional reporting requirements | Counseling | Counterterrorism | Criminal justice | Damages | Defense policy | Department of Health and Human Services | Department of Homeland Security | Drug approvals | Drug industry | Drug resistance in microorganisms | Earnings | EBB Terrorism | Education | Emergency management | Emergency medicine | Executive departments | Export controls | Families | Federal advisory bodies | Federal employees | Federal officials | Federal preemption | Fines (Penalties) | Fire fighters | Foreign policy | Government employees | Government information | Government liability | Government procurement | Government publicity | Government trust funds | Governmental investigations | Guardian and ward | Hazardous substances | Health counseling | Health education | Health policy | Health warnings | Hepatitis | Higher education | Human immunodeficiency viruses | Influenza | Informed consent (Medical law) | Injunctions | International affairs | Jurisdiction | Labor | Laboratories | Law | Law enforcement officers | Legal fees | Liability (Law) | Licenses | Limitation of actions | Medical care | Medical instruments and apparatus | Medical laboratories | Medical personnel | Medical research | Medical screening | Medical statistics | Medicine | Military medicine | Military personnel | Minorities | Minority education | National Institutes of Health (NIH) | National security | Nuclear terrorism | Pensions | Pharmaceutical research | Police | Preventive medicine | Prisons | Public contracts | Public health administration | Radiation victims | Radioactivity | Radiobiology | Recruiting of employees | Research and development | Research centers | Research grants | Science policy | Scientists in government | Sexually transmitted diseases | Smallpox | Social services | State and local government | State laws | Survivors' benefits | Terrorism | Trade | Transportation | Travel | Travel agents | Vaccination | Vaccines | Workers' compensation

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