H.R.6568: To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to encourage research and carry out an educational campaign with respect to pulmonary hypertension, and for other purposes.

To direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to encourage research and carry out an educational campaign with respect to pulmonary hypertension, and for other purposes. 9/25/2008--Passed House amended.    (There is 1 other summary) Tom Lantos Pulmonary Hypertension Research and Education Act of 2008 - Title I: Research on Pulmonary Hypertension - (Sec. 101) Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, should continue aggressive work on pulmonary hypertension; and (2) the Director of the Institute should continue research to expand the understanding of the causes of, and to find a cure for, pulmonary hypertension.Requires inclusion of information on the status of pulmonary hypertension research at NIH in biennial reports to Congress. Title II: [...]

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