§300cc–11 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary, working with the directors of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, must set up a clinical evaluation unit at the NIH Clinical Center for each institute. Each unit must test experimental treatments for AIDS that come from the preclinical drug program. They must also study ways to diagnose immune problems and to predict, diagnose, prevent, and treat related cancers and infections. The units may also test experimental treatments made by other NIH institutes or outside groups. The NIH Director must give each unit at least 50 beds or outpatient space equal to at least twice the outpatient AIDS capacity the Clinical Center had on June 1, 1988, plus needed staff and support. These resources must be extra to the Center’s regular clinical care. Money may be appropriated as needed to carry this out.

Title 42, §300cc–11

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Cancer Institute and the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, shall for each such Institute establish a clinical evaluation unit at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health. Each of the clinical evaluation units—

(1)shall conduct clinical evaluations of experimental treatments for acquired immune deficiency syndrome developed within the preclinical drug development program, including evaluations of methods of diagnosing immune deficiency and evaluations of methods of predicting, diagnosing, preventing, and treating opportunistic cancers and infectious diseases; and

(2)may conduct clinical evaluations of experimental treatments for such syndrome that are developed by any other national research institute of the National Institutes of Health or by any other entity.

(b)(1)For the purposes described in subsection (a), the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health, shall provide each of the clinical evaluation units required in such subsection—

(A)(i)with not less than 50 beds; or

(ii)with an outpatient clinical capacity equal to not less than twice the outpatient clinical capacity, with respect to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, possessed by the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health on June 1, 1988; and

(B)with such personnel, such administrative support, and such other support services as may be necessary.

(2)Facilities, personnel, administrative support, and other support services provided pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be in addition to the number or level of facilities, personnel, administrative support, and other support services that otherwise would be available at the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health for the provision of clinical care for individuals with diseases or disorders.

(c)For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 300cc–11, act July 1, 1944, § 2312, was successively renumbered by subsequent acts and transferred, see section 238i of this title.

Amendments

1993—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 103–43 inserted before semicolon at end “, including evaluations of methods of diagnosing immune deficiency and evaluations of methods of predicting, diagnosing, preventing, and treating opportunistic cancers and infectious diseases”.

§300cc–11 Clinical evaluation units at National Institutes of Health