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21st Century Cures Act will get vote this week

Modern Healthcare: The House of Representatives will vote Wednesday on a long-stalled package of biomedical innovation bills along with a vote on whether to add state funding to fight opioid misuse.A reworked 21st Century Cures Act was released over the holiday weekend by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.).The Cures Act as now proposed includes funding for President Barack Obama's precision medicine initiative, the cancer "moonshot" effort and Alzheimer's research. The act creates innovation accounts for the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration that would be replenished annually. Total funding for the NIH in the act is $4.8 billion.

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