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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysarst0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2017 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 10:30 a.m., in room SD-138, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Roy Blunt (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Blunt, Cochran, Alexander, Moran, Rubio, Murray, Durbin, and Leahy. SAVING LIVES THROUGH MEDICAL RESEARCH OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR ROY BLUNT Senator BLUNT. The Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies will come to order. Good morning. I want to thank our witnesses for appearing be- fore this subcommittee today. In the next few years as we continue to confront difficult spending choices, we really have to continue, in my view, to firmly establish our Federal commitment to the Na- tional Institute of Health (NIH). Since its founding, the NIH has funded research to raise life ex- pectancy, to lower healthcare costs, and to improve the quality of life for all Americans. In the 80 years since Congress established the National Cancer Institute, we've gone from crude treatments with grim prognosis to a place where we know much more about what we are dealing with and how to deal with it. And we are going to hear today some fu- ture projections of how that even advances in a more dramatic way. Since the 1940s, the rate of cardiovascular deaths have dropped 60 percent thanks to effective treatments, a lot of which involved NIH funded research. These are really two great examples, both in cancer and in cardiovascular disease, of what happens when you have the kinds of medical breakthroughs that we've seen and I think can see in even greater numbers. In the past year, NIH funded the development of an artificial pancreas that would be life changing if you have Type I diabetes. They have discovered biomarkers that were unique to two different prostate cancer stages and decoded the structure of the Zika virus. (1)

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