PROSTATE Act

Bill: 112-hr-2159
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2011-06-14 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Advisory bodies
Cancer
Executive agency funding and structure
Government information and archives
Health information and medical records
Health programs administration and funding
Health technology, devices, supplies
Medical research
Medical tests and diagnostic methods
Military medicine
Minority health
Research administration and funding
Sex and reproductive health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: 
Prostate Research, Outreach, Screening, Testing, Access, and Treatment Effectiveness Act of 2011 or the PROSTATE Act - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish the Interagency Prostate Cancer Coordination and Education Task Force, with duties to include: (1) developing a summary of advances in federal prostate cancer research and compile a list of best practices that warrant broader adoption in health care programs; (2) considering establishing guidance to enable physicians to allow screening of men over age 74; (3) coordinating information on federal research and health care program activities relating to prostate cancer; and (4) submitting recommendations regarding federal research and health care programs.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program to coordinate and intensify prostate cancer research, including by developing advances in diagnostic and prognostic methods and tests, better understanding the etiology of the disease, and establishing clinical registries for prostate cancer and awarding research grants.
 
Establishes in the Office of the Chief Scientist of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a Prostate Cancer Scientific Advisory Board to be responsible for accelerating real-time sharing of the latest research data and accelerating movement of new medicines to patients.
 
Directs the Secretary of VA, the Secretary of Defense (DOD) and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish four-year telehealth pilot projects to analyze the clinical outcomes and cost effectiveness associated with telehealth services in a variety of geographic areas that contain high proportions of medically underserved populations and those in rural areas. 
 
Requires the Secretary of VA to develop a national education campaign for prostate cancer.
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2011-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-06-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2011-06-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs, and Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1082)
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2011-06-14
text: Introduced in House