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	<title>Brain Tumor Action Network &#187; Legislation</title>
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	<description>Putting Our Heads Together</description>
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		<title>Flats &#8220;hero&#8221; is gone, but his cause lives on</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nuclear bombs Charlie Wolf built helped win the Cold War. But his toughest battles came afterward, when he applied to a troubled federal compensation program intended for those whose top-secret work made them sick.]]></description>
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		<title>HR 653 / S.305: The National Childhood Brain Tumor Prevention Network Act</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 22, 2009 Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) introduced HR 653 (formerly HR 7153), The National Childhood Brain Tumor Prevention Network Act of 2009, to the House of Representatives.

Also on January 22, Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and David Vitter (R-LA) introduced S.305, the companion bill to HR 653, to the U.S. Senate.

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		<title>Schumer, Vitter Join Rep. Barbara Lee In Introducing Bill To Combat Brain Tumors In Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 2,200 Children Diagnosed with Malignant Brain Tumors Each Year, Critical Funding, Research, and Coordination are Desperately Needed

Legislation will Create a New Pediatric Brain Cancer Research Network within the National Cancer Institute to Study and Prevent this Tragic Disease
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		<title>Girl who inspired &#8216;Steffanie&#8217;s Law&#8217; dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steffanie Collings, namesake of legislation to require insurance coverage for routine health care costs for patients who undergo clinical trials, died today, a day after the bill passed the state Senate.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Steffanie&#8217;s Law&#8217; passes Senate committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Senate committee passed "Steffanie's Law" today to require insurance companies to cover medical costs such as lab tests and doctor's visits associated with clinical trials that test new medical treatments for such things as cancer.]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Disability is Social Security’s big pressing issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know from personal experience how difficult Social Security’s disability process can be.]]></description>
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		<title>Questions and Answers with Nancy Thomason</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q:  What led you to found the Brain Tumor Foundation, when did it begin operating and how do you fund it?

A:  I started the foundation after my youngest son, Cade, died of a brain tumor in 2000. He was almost 2 years old. 
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		<title>Oklahoma bill would boost coverage for clinical trial patients</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When doctors at Children's Hospital in Oklahoma City told Steffanie Collings' parents that her last, best hope to survive the tumor that invaded her brain would be a stem cell transplant, they readily agreed to the procedure.]]></description>
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		<title>A priceless reason to pass childhood cancer legislation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As representatives and senators debate, discuss and bargain about the Conquer Childhood Cancer Act, I’d like to step up as the parent of child with cancer — and welcome you to our world. Maybe, I’ll give you pause as you head into your next roundtable discussion.]]></description>
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