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		<title>NABTC Agenda for Action 2010; Join the Coalition for Advocacy Activities in DC or at Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The members of the North American Brain Tumor Coalition will be in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, May 4, to meet with their Senators and Representatives.  During those important Congressional visits, the Coalition advocates will be pressing Congress to take several important actions.  First, the NABTC will advocate an increase in National Institutes of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nabraintumor.org/wp/?p=311</link>
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		<title>North American Brain Tumor Coalition Outlines Brain Tumor Research Funding Priorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a statement submitted to the House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees for Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, North American Brain Tumor Coalition Chair Joseph Fay outlined the Coalition&#8217;s fiscal year 2011 priorities for funding brain tumor research.
The Coalition endorsed the recommendation of the biomedical research community that National Institutes of Health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nabraintumor.org/wp/?p=305</link>
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		<title>Health Reform Bill Signed Into Law; Several Provisions Will Assist Americans with Brain Tumors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law (Public Law 111-148) on March 23, 2010.  This followed a long weekend of work by the House of Representatives that ended with approval of the health care bill by a vote of 219 to 212.   This bill had been approved [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nabraintumor.org/wp/?p=302</link>
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		<title>Register NOW for Brain Tumor Action Week!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please join the North American Brain Tumor Coalition and its friends in Washington, D.C. for Brain Tumor Action Week.  On Monday, May 3, we will hold a full-day education day.  On Tuesday, May 4, we will make visits to Members of Congress.
Join your friends in the brain tumor community in pressing for federal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nabraintumor.org/wp/?p=299</link>
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		<title>NABTC Applauds CMS Action to Improve Access to Clinical Trials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The North American Brain Tumor Coalition joined others in the patient advocacy community in commending action by the Centers for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Services (CMS) to remove barriers to Medicare beneficiaries&#8217; participation in clinical trials.
Although there has been a policy for Medicare payment of routine patient care costs incurred in clinical trials since 2000, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nabraintumor.org/wp/?p=296</link>
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		<title>Congress Poised to Take Final Vote on Health Care Reform; NABTC Urges Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Final House and Senate votes on the health care reform legislation are expected the week of March 15, although some reports have suggested a delay in the vote timing.  The House will consider the Senate-passed bill, and then both Houses are scheduled to consider amendments to the underlying Senate bill.  While Democratic leaders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nabraintumor.org/wp/?p=290</link>
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		<title>Register Now! Brain Tumor Action Week in DC on May 3 and 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please join the North American Brain Tumor Coalition and its friends for Brain Tumor Action Week in Washington, D.C.  On Monday, May 3, the Coalition invites you to an education day, featuring a program focusing on brain tumor research and care and including training for advocacy visits to Congress.  On Tuesday, May 4, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nabraintumor.org/wp/?p=285</link>
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		<title>American Society for Radiation Oncology Announces Patient Protection Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) announced a six-point patient protection on February 3, 2010.  The plan was described as the culmination of a long-term effort to assure that patients receive safe and effective radiation therapy, an effort that continued at the ASTRO Board of Directors winter meeting on January 28-31, 2010.
The ASTRO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nabraintumor.org/wp/?p=280</link>
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		<title>Obama Administration Boosts NIH Funding in FY 2011 Budget Proposal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On February 1, 2010, the Obama Administration released its proposed budget for fiscal year 2011, including a boost of $1 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  This budget implements the President&#8217;s pledge to impose an overall freeze in domestic discretionary, eliminating or cutting certain programs to permit increases for others. 
In its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nabraintumor.org/wp/?p=277</link>
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		<title>National Institutes of Health Announces Identification of Subtypes of Glioblastoma Multiforme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a January 19, 2010, press release, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the publication of a study by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network identifying four distinct molecular subtypes of glioblasoma multiforme (GBM).  These findings were heralded as pointing the way toward more personalized approaches to treatment of GBM patients.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nabraintumor.org/wp/?p=272</link>
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