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Senate committee approves breast, cervical cancer diagnosis program

Device Regulation Alert: Safety, Compliance and Reimbursement News, March 26, 2007

A Senate committee approved this month the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2007, which brings free and low-cost breast and cervical cancer screenings to low-income, uninsured women. AdvaMed praised the passage. In a prepared statement, AdvaMed President Stephen Ubl called the program "another example of how diagnostics technology can save lives."

Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP Committee) approved the bill, which modifies the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize the program, which Congress established in 1991.

According to the HELP Committee, the program operates in all 50 states, four U.S. territories, the District of Columbia, and 13 American Indian and Alaska Native organizations.

Read more about the bill on the Senate committee's Web site.

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