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TRU:
The Training and Research in Urology Bill / HR1002 Purpose: HR1002 would create a Division Director for Urologic Diseases in the NIDDK, NIH, would provide for a National Urologic Diseases Data System, a National Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse, a separate NIH advisory subcommittee on urologic diseases, separate funding for research training in urology, and separate funding for urological disease research. Why is TRU needed: The basic reason this bill is needed is bureaucratic. Most of the medical research in the United States is funded by the US Government through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Currently the bureaucracy at the National Institutes of Health lumps bladder diseases together with kidney diseases and hematology in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). Kidney disease and hematology get the lion's share of Federal funding because their activist groups have demanded it. Bladder research has not been totally ignored, but it has not been given serious attention either. The organization of NIDDK is fixed by law, so it will take a new law to fix it. HR1002 is designed to do just that. Read the TRU bill, HR1002 for yourself. See why the American Urological Association supports the TRU Bill. Contact me if you would like to see the TRU Bill passed. Read my wish-list for bladder cancer research. Back to Bladder Cancer WebCafe |