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Also tagged in: Animals, Budgets, Child health, Children, Ecological research, Environmental health, Environmental protection, Environmental research, Environmental technology, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to research, Foreign policy, Health education, Health policy, Hormones, International affairs, International cooperation in science, Medical care, Medical research, Medicine, Natural resources, Pollution control, Research and development, Science policy, Technology, Wildlife conservation, Women, Women's health
Latest Action: 04/16/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to conduct and coordinate a research program on hormone disruption, and for other purposes. 4/15/2008--Introduced. Environmental Hormone Disruption Research Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish a comprehensive program to: (1) research the health effects on women and children that may result through disruption of the hormone systems; (2) carry out research, development, and demonstrations on technologies to mitigate the occurrence of hormone-disrupting pollutants in the environment and their unintended effects on ecological and wildlife health, in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS); and (3) coordinate U.S. research on hormone disruption with research conducted in other nations.Requires the program to provide for: (1) the collection [...] show full description
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Also tagged in: Animals, Budgets, Child health, Children, Ecological research, Environmental health, Environmental protection, Environmental research, Environmental technology, Executive departments, Executive reorganization, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to research, Foreign policy, Health education, Health policy, Hormones, International affairs, International cooperation in science, Medical care, Medical research, Medicine, Natural resources, Pollution control, Research and development, Science policy, Technology, Wildlife conservation, Women, Women's health
Latest Action: 04/16/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. Bill TextTo amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to conduct and coordinate a research program on hormone disruption, and for other purposes. 4/15/2008--Introduced. Environmental Hormone Disruption Research Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to establish a comprehensive program to: (1) research the health effects on women and children that may result through disruption of the hormone systems; (2) carry out research, development, and demonstrations on technologies to mitigate the occurrence of hormone-disrupting pollutants in the environment and their unintended effects on ecological and wildlife health, in cooperation with the United States Geological Survey (USGS); and (3) coordinate U.S. research on hormone disruption with research conducted in other nations.Requires the program to provide for: (1) the collection [...] show full description
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