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ASM staff member Kimberly Walker attended the G2 Intelligence 2011 Lab Institute on 19-21 October.
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ASM provided written comments to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Office of Civil Rights on the proposed rule "CLIA Program and HIPAA Privacy Rule; Patients' Access to Test Reports."
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ASM commented on the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) for 45 CFR Parts 46, 160, 164, and 21 CFR Parts 50 and 56 "Human Subjects Research Protections: Enhancing Protections for Research Subjects and Reducing Burden, Delay, and Ambiguity for Investigators."
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On 14 November, Congress reached an agreement on a final conference report for the first combined appropriations bill, known as a "minibus," that provides fiscal year (FY) 2012 funding for agriculture, commerce, justice and science, transportation, housing, and urban development.
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ASM hosted an FDA Roundtable meeting on 8 October for laboratory stakeholders.
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In her 17 October "Rock Talk" blog, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Deputy Director for Extramural Research Sally Rockey asks the research community, "How do you think we should manage science in fiscally challenging times?"
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On 26 September, White House Council on Women and Girls Executive Director Tina Tchen, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John P. Holdren, and National Science Foundation (NSF) Director Subra Suresh announced the "NSF Career-Life Balance Initiative," a 10-year plan to provide greater work-related flexibility to women and men in research careers.
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