42 U.S.C. § 284p: Activities of the National…

Summary

The Director can give grants to public or private groups to help plan, set up, improve, and run networks of clinics that work together. Those networks must design rehabilitation plans and ways to measure results for types of paralysis caused by brain or spinal cord injury, disorders, or stroke. The networks can study key topics like improving movement, helping people adapt to lost abilities and avoid problems, testing rehab treatments and assistive technology, improving devices that aid independence, and how the whole body responds to impairment. They can repeat studies to confirm findings. The Director can make networks share information, keep in regular contact, and send periodic reports.

Title 42, §284p

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(a)In general

The Director, pursuant to the general authority of the Director, may make awards of grants to public or private entities to pay all or part of the costs of planning, establishing, improving, and providing basic operating support to multicenter networks of clinical sites that will collaborate to design clinical rehabilitation intervention protocols and measures of outcomes on one or more forms of paralysis that result from central nervous system trauma, disorders, or stroke, or any combination of such conditions.

(b)Research

A multicenter network of clinical sites funded through this section may—

(1)focus on areas of key scientific concern, including—

(A)improving functional mobility;

(B)promoting behavioral adaptation to functional losses, especially to prevent secondary complications;

(C)assessing the efficacy and outcomes of medical rehabilitation therapies and practices and assisting technologies;

(D)developing improved assistive technology to improve function and independence; and

(E)understanding whole body system responses to physical impairments, disabilities, and societal and functional limitations; and

(2)replicate the findings of network members or other researchers for scientific and translation purposes.

(c)Coordination of clinical trials networks; reports

The Director may, as appropriate, provide for the coordination of information among networks funded through this section and ensure regular communication among members of the networks, and may require the periodic preparation of reports on the activities of the networks and submission of reports to the Director.

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Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act, and also as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, and not as part of the Public Health Service Act which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definition of “Director” “Director” as meaning the Director of the National Institutes of Health, see section 284o(a) of this title.

§284p Activities of the National Institutes of Health with Respect to Research with Implications for Enhancing Daily Function for Persons with Paralysis

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Title 42, §284p

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