To view as a PDF, click here. June 5, 2014 The Honorable Jim Cooper 1536 Longworth HOB Washington, DC 20515 Re: Members of the Patient, Consumer, and Public Health Coalition strongly support the Research for All Act of 2014. Dear Congressman Cooper, As members of the Patient, Consumer, and Public Health Coalition, we strongly support the Research for […]
To view as a PDF, click here. May 27, 2014 The Honorable Harold Rogers Chairman Committee on Appropriations United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Nita Lowey Ranking Member Committee on Appropriations United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Lowey: We are writing to express our […]
April 14, 2014. We are writing as members of the Patient, Consumer, and Public Health Coalition and other interested experts to express our grave concerns about the March 12, 2014 FDA meeting of the Microbiology Medical Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee. Under consideration was the premarket approval of a new indication for the Cobas HPV test, as a first-line primary screening tool for cervical cancer in women aged 25 and older.
March 27, 2014. The Surgeon General’s conclusion that the increased risk of lung cancer to smokers is due to changes in cigarette design and composition has critical implications for FDA’s regulation of tobacco products.
To view letter, click here. February 19, 2014 The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 120F Washington, DC 20201 Dear Secretary Sebelius: We are writing to ask your Department to clearly define a comprehensive tobacco cessation benefit in the Affordable Care Act regulations or, […]
As organizations committed to ending the tobacco epidemic in the United States, we applaud the bold decision by CVS Caremark to eliminate the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in all its stores.