National Biomedical Heart, Lung, Blood, Blood Vessel, and Research Training Act

(Measure indefinitely postponed in Senate, H.R. 7988 passed in lieu)

National Biomedical Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung, Blood, and Research Training Act - =Title I: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute= - Requires that the Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute prepare in consultation with the Institute's Advisory Council and submit to the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, for transmittal to the President and Congress as soon as possible after the end of each fiscal year, an annual report on the activities, progress, and accomplishments under the program during the preceeding fiscal year and a plan for the program during the next five years.

Requires that the Director of the Institute specifically include blood diseases and blood resources as part of the plan for the National Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung and Blood Diseases and Blood Resources Program.

Authorizes appropriations for heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood disease prevention and control programs in the following amounts: $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $25,000,000 for fiscal year 1977.

Provides for the development of ten new Research and Demonstration Centers for basic and clinical research, training, and demonstration of advanced diagnostic, prevention, and treatment methods (including emergency medical services) for blood, blood vessel diseases, research in the use of blood products, and research in the management of blood resources.

Includes prevention programs for lung and blood diseases, in addition to those prevention programs for cardiovascular diseases, in the research, demonstration, and training programs of the Research and Demonstration Centers.

Includes programs for the development of health professions and allied health professions personnel highly skilled in the prevention of lung, blood, and cardiovascular diseases.

Requires that the Advisory Council submit to the Secretary, for transmittal to the President and the Congress, an annual report on the progress of the national program toward accomplishment of its objectives during the preceding fiscal year.

Authorizes the National Heart and Lung Advisory Council to approve contract-supported areas of research in heart, blood vessel, lung, blood diseases, and the use of blood and blood products and research in the management of blood resources.

Authorizes appropriations for programs and activities of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute in the following amounts: $338,000,000 for fiscal year 1976, and $372,000,000 for fiscal year 1977.

Provides that no less than 15 percent of the Institute's appropriations be reserved for programs respecting blood diseases.

=Title II: National Research Service Awards= - Permits the Secretary to provide National Research Service Awards for biomedical and behavioral research at Federal as well as non-Federal public institutions.

Authorizes appropriations for such awards.

=Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions= - Provides that active service of commissioned officers of the Public Health Service shall be deemed to be active military service in the Nation's armed forces for the purposes of all rights, privileges, immunities, and benefits now or hereafter provided under the Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended.

Authorizes appropriations for the Physician Shortage Area Scholarship Program as follows: $3,500,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $2,000,000 for fiscal year 1976.

Authorizes appropriations for Federal loans to specified schools as follows: $60,000,000 for fiscal year 1976.

Permits the Secretary to grant a maximum stipend of $25,000 per year to visiting scientists who agree formally with the Secretary to assist minority schools in developing programs in biomedical sciences.

Authorizes necessary appropriations for such stipends.

Permits the Secretary to make grants to minority schools to initiate the development of undergraduate programs in biomedical sciences.

=Title IV: Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act Amendments= - Prohibits the Secretary from limiting the potency of any vitamin or mineral within a food; classifying any single or combination vitamin/mineral product as a drug on the basis of high potency which the Secretary determines to be in excess of nutritional usefulness; or limiting the combination or number of vitamins or minerals or other ingredients in foods, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Permits the Secretary to regulate vitamins, minerals, or other food ingredients which the Secretary determines by regulation to be represented for use by pregnant or lactating women or children under the age of 12 years.

Specifies under such Act that foods labeled to include all ingredients or advertised to refer to all ingredients beside vitamins and/or minerals cannot be deemed misbranded.

Defines "special dietary use," under such Act, to mean a particular use for which a food is represented to be used.

Defines "food" under such Act, and provides that a food is defined to be misbranded if its advertising is false or misleading in a material respect or if its labeling is in violation of this Act.

Permits a libel for condemnation if a food's advertising was disseminated in the selling establishment, was disseminated by the owner or operator of such establishment, was paid for by the owner or operator, or was used to promote the sale of the food.

=Title V: Arthritis Act Amendments= - National Arthritis Act Technical Amendments - States, under the National Arthritis Act, that the purpose of such Act is to provide for a long-range plan to expand and coordinate the national research, treatment and control effort against arthritis; to advance educational activities to alert the Nation's citizens to the early indications of arthritis; to establish and support the development of improved methods for arthritis screening, prevention and referral; and to establish a central arthritis screening and detection data bank.

Authorizes $1,500,000 to support the activities of the National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases.

Authorizes appropriations for arthritis screening, detection, prevention, and referral demonstration projects, and data bank in the following amounts: $1,500,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $4,000,000 for fiscal year 1976.

Permits the Secretary to provide for the development, modernization, and operation of new and existing comprehensive arthritis centers, and changes authorized appropriations for such centers to the following amounts: $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1975, and $21,000,000 for fiscal year 1977.

=Title VI: Sickle Cell Anemia, Cooley's Anemia, Tay-Sachs Disease and Genetic Diseases Amendments of 1975= - National Sickle Cell Anemia, Cooley's Anemia, Tay-Sachs and Genetic Diseases Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to public and non-profit private entities, and to enter into contracts with public and private entities, for projects to establish and operate voluntary genetic testing and counseling programs primarily in conjunction with other existing health programs, with a priority given to applications for grants and contracts for projects which are recipients of sickle cell anemia grants or contracts on the date of enactment of this Act.

Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to develop information and educational materials relating to genetic diseases and to disseminate such information and materials to persons providing health care, to teachers and students, and to the public generally.

Permits the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities and enter into contracts with public and private entities and individuals for the development and dissemination of such materials.

Authorizes appropriations for such grants and contracts for such testing and counseling and information development and dissemination.

Approves extension of grants and contracts for research into genetic diseases, for training programs relating to genetic diseases, anf for counseling and testing programs relating to genetic diseases. Authorizes appropriations for such purposes and for sickle cell anemia research.

Sets forth procedures and requirements for application for grants and contracts under this title.

Directs the Secretary to establish a program within the Service to provide voluntary testing, diagnosis, counseling, and treatment of individuals respecting genetic diseases.

Requires reports to the Congress annually on the administration of this title.

=Title VII: Diabetes Plan= - Terminates the Diabetes Commission on September 30, 1976.

=Title VIII: Health Services= - Permits migrant and community health centers to provide ambulatory and surgical services.

=Title IX: Public Health Service Act Amendments= - Provides that the Secretary may, where he deems advisable, allow the Indian Health Service to utilize non-profit recruitment agencies to assist in obtaining personnel for the Public Health Service.

=Title X: Appointment of Advisory Committees= - Requires all appointments to specified health advisory committees to be made without regard to political affiliation.