House Proceeding on May 1st, 2008 :: 1:35:58 to 1:37:42
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Speech By: Allyson Y. Schwartz

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Allyson Y. Schwartz: gallery today, researchers have identified genetic markers for a variety of chronic health conditions that increase the potential of early treatment and prevention of genetic-based diseases.

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Dave Camp: there are already dramatic tests for diseases. and hundreds more are under development. let me mention just two of them. just this week, we heard from newspapers that in london and work that

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Speech By: Dave Camp

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Dave Camp: is being done in pittsburgh, i believe the univsity of pennsylvania, has restored some eyesight to people who were disposed to a genetic disease that harmed their vision as children. to be able to restore

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Dave Camp: eyesight is something none of us ever dreamed of being able to do, but by injecting genetic material into the back of the eye behind the retina they have received some sight. they believe

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Dave Camp: that once they are able to do this in younger children that -- and be able to increase the dose that the success rate will be extremely high, and that in itself is such good news. also,

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Dave Camp: yesterday "the new york times" reported that the gene has been isolated for osteoporosis and fragile bones. i remember when fighting for the office of women's health, the statistic is that we spent

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Dave Camp: between $20 billion and $30 billion a year -- this was years ago, 10 and 15 -- to treat osteoporosis. we had no treatment for it. we tried best we could. we have over time achieved some

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Dave Camp: treatments for osteoporosis. but think what would happen if once we find that gene we are able to manipulate that gene or change it and prevent osteoporosis altogether. the great thing about this

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Dave Camp: science is the limitless possibility to cure conditions -- the human conditions without long hospital stays, without invasive surgeries and possibilities there for an entirely new way for

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Dave Camp: us to provide health care. . consider these tests we know can tell a woman if she has a family history of breast cancer if she has the genetic predisposition. for at least the last 10 years

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Carol Shea-Porter: i have been told by women who are in that condition and also by their physicians that they have recommended to them that until a bill such as the one we are passing today becomes law in this