Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§285d–5 Arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases demonstration projects

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 6A— - PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES › Part Part C— - Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes › Subpart subpart 4— - national institute of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases › § 285d–5

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Director of the Institute can give grants to public and private nonprofit groups to create projects that develop and show ways to screen for, find, and refer people for treatment of arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases. These projects must work with federal, state, local, and regional health agencies, special treatment centers, and a shared data system. Projects must cover improving early screening and diagnosis, better referral from hospitals and doctors to the right centers, standardizing patient records, teaching health workers about these methods, telling the public about the importance of early treatment and warning against unapproved or ineffective tests, treatments, drugs, and devices, and researching the causes and patterns of these diseases, including social, environmental, behavior, nutrition, and genetic factors. The Director must also set rules for standard patient data and recordkeeping so information can be collected, stored, analyzed, retrieved, and shared consistently. This must be done together with the funded projects, the treatment centers, and others working on arthritis and musculoskeletal disease programs.

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Title 42, §285d–5

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(a)The Director of the Institute may make grants to public and private nonprofit entities to establish and support projects for the development and demonstration of methods for screening, detection, and referral for treatment of arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases and for the dissemination of information on such methods to the health and allied health professions. Activities under such projects shall be coordinated with Federal, State, local, and regional health agencies, centers assisted under section 285d–6 of this title, and the data system established under subsection (c).

(b)Projects supported under this section shall include—

(1)programs which emphasize the development and demonstration of new and improved methods of screening and early detection, referral for treatment, and diagnosis of individuals with a risk of developing arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases;

(2)programs which emphasize the development and demonstration of new and improved methods for patient referral from local hospitals and physicians to appropriate centers for early diagnosis and treatment;

(3)programs which emphasize the development and demonstration of new and improved means of standardizing patient data and recordkeeping;

(4)programs which emphasize the development and demonstration of new and improved methods of dissemination of knowledge about the programs, methods, and means referred to in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of this subsection to health and allied health professionals;

(5)programs which emphasize the development and demonstration of new and improved methods for the dissemination to the general public of information—

(A)on the importance of early detection of arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases, of seeking prompt treatment, and of following an appropriate regimen; and

(B)to discourage the promotion and use of unapproved and ineffective diagnostic, preventive treatment, and control methods for arthritis and unapproved and ineffective drugs and devices for arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases; and

(6)projects for investigation into the epidemiology of all forms and aspects of arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases, including investigations into the social, environmental, behavioral, nutritional, and genetic determinants and influences involved in the epidemiology of arthritis and musculoskeletal diseases.

(c)The Director shall provide for the standardization of patient data and recordkeeping for the collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of such data in cooperation with projects assisted under this section, centers assisted under section 285d–6 of this title, and other persons engaged in arthritis and musculoskeletal disease programs.

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42 U.S.C. § 285d–5

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73