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Background and Brief Description
In 2008, the Congressional Committee
on Education and Labor released the
report, ‘‘Hidden Tragedy:
Underreporting of Workplace Injuries
and Illnesses,’’ indicating ‘‘that workrelated injuries and illnesses in the
United States are chronically and even
grossly underreported.’’ Based in part
on the report’s results, Congress
allocated funds for NIOSH to conduct a
follow-up study using NIOSH’s
occupational supplement to the
National Electronic Injury Surveillance
System (NEISS–Work) to estimate
underreporting among individuals who
seek care at an emergency department
(ED) for an occupational illness, injury,
or exposure.
Objectives for this project are to (1)
assess the reporting behavior of workers
that are injured, ill, or exposed to a
harmful substance at work; (2)
characterize the chronic aspects of
work-related injuries or illnesses; and
(3) estimate the prevalence of workrelated chronic injuries and illnesses
among United States workers treated in
EDs. Particular attention will be paid to
self-employed workers, workers with
work-related illnesses, and workers with
chronic health problems.
Data collection for the telephone
interview survey will be done via a
questionnaire containing questions
about the respondent’s injury, illness, or
exposure that sent them to the ED; the
characteristics of the job they were
working when they were injured,
became ill, or were exposed; their
experiences reporting their injury,
illness, or exposure to the ED and their
employer (if applicable); the presence of
an underlying chronic condition that
was associated with their ED visit; and
the nature of any other work-related
chronic conditions they have
experienced. The questionnaire was
designed to take 30 minutes to complete
and includes a brief series of questions
to screen out individuals who were not
seen in the ED for a work-related injury,
illness, or exposure; who are younger
than age 20 or older than age 64; who
do not speak English or Spanish; or who
were working as volunteers or day
laborers when the injury, illness, or
exposure occurred or was made worse.
Approximately 1,500 to 3,000
interviews will be completed over the
two year period. The only cost to the
respondent will be the cost of their time
spent on the phone completing the
telephone interview survey. The total
estimated burden hours are 750.
ESTIMATED ANNUALIZED BURDEN HOURS
Number of
respondents
Respondents
U.S. workers presenting to an emergency department ..............................................................
Kimberly S. Lane,
Reports Clearance Officer, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA–2012–N–0001]
Advisory Committee for Reproductive
Health Drugs; Notice of Meeting
AGENCY:
Food and Drug Administration,
HHS.
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ACTION:
Notice.
This notice announces a forthcoming
meeting of a public advisory committee
of the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA). The meeting will be open to the
public.
Name of Committee: Advisory
Committee for Reproductive Health
Drugs.
General Function of the Committee:
To provide advice and
recommendations to the Agency on
FDA’s regulatory issues.
Date and Time: The meeting will be
held on April 5, 2012, from 8 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Location: FDA White Oak Campus,
Building 31, the Great Room, White Oak
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Conference Center (rm. 1503), 10903
New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD
20993–0002. Information regarding
special accommodations due to a
disability, visitor parking and
transportation may be accessed at
https://www.fda.gov/Advisory
Committees/default.htm; under the
heading ‘‘Resources for You’’, click on
‘‘Public Meetings at the FDA White Oak
Campus.’’ Please note that visitors to the
White Oak Campus must enter through
Building 1.
Contact Person: Kalyani Bhatt, Center
for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food
and Drug Administration, 10903 New
Hampshire Ave., WO31–2417, Silver
Spring, MD 20993–0002, 301–796–9001,
Fax: 301–847–8533, email:
ACRHD@fda.hhs.gov, or FDA Advisory
Committee Information Line, 1–800–
741–8138 (301–443–0572 in the
Washington, DC area), and follow the
prompts to the desired center or product
area. Please call the Information Line for
up-to-date information on this meeting.
A notice in the Federal Register about
last minute modifications that impact a
previously announced advisory
committee meeting cannot always be
published quickly enough to provide
timely notice. Therefore, you should
always check the Agency’s Web site and
call the appropriate advisory committee
hot line/phone line to learn about
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possible modifications before coming to
the meeting.
Agenda: The committee will discuss
the benefits and risks of mirabegron
(YM178), under new drug application
(NDA) 202611, submitted by Astellas
Pharma Global Development Inc., for
the proposed indication of treatment of
overactive bladder (OAB) with
symptoms of urge urinary incontinence,
urgency, and urinary frequency.
Mirabegron is a beta-3-adrenoceptor
(AR) agonist and is a new molecular
entity. The benefit/risk discussion will
focus on the adequacy of the
demonstration of efficacy and safety in
the treatment of OAB.
FDA intends to make background
material available to the public no later
than two business days before the
meeting. If FDA is unable to post the
background material on its Web site
prior to the meeting, the background
material will be made publicly available
at the location of the advisory
committee meeting, and the background
material will be posted on FDA’s Web
site after the meeting. Background
material is available at https://www.fda.
gov/AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/
default.htm. Scroll down to the
appropriate advisory committee link.
Procedure: Interested persons may
present data, information, or views,
orally or in writing, on issues pending
before the committee. Written
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submissions may be made to the contact
person on or before March 22, 2012.
Oral presentations from the public will
be scheduled between approximately
1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Those individuals
interested in making formal oral
presentations should notify the contact
person and submit a brief statement of
the general nature of the evidence or
arguments they wish to present, the
names and addresses of proposed
participants, and an indication of the
approximate time requested to make
their presentation on or before March
14, 2012. Time allotted for each
presentation may be limited. If the
number of registrants requesting to
speak is greater than can be reasonably
accommodated during the scheduled
open public hearing session, FDA may
conduct a lottery to determine the
speakers for the scheduled open public
hearing session. The contact person will
notify interested persons regarding their
request to speak by March 15, 2012.
Persons attending FDA’s advisory
committee meetings are advised that the
Agency is not responsible for providing
access to electrical outlets.
FDA welcomes the attendance of the
public at its advisory committee
meetings and will make every effort to
accommodate persons with physical
disabilities or special needs. If you
require special accommodations due to
a disability, please contact Kalyani
Bhatt at least 7 days in advance of the
meeting.
FDA is committed to the orderly
conduct of its advisory committee
meetings. Please visit our Web site at
https://www.fda.gov/Advisory
Committees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/
ucm111462.htm for procedures on
public conduct during advisory
committee meetings.
Notice of this meeting is given under
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(5 U.S.C. app. 2).
Dated: February 3, 2012.
Leslie Kux,
Acting Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Health Resources and Services
Administration
Eligibility Criteria for the Centers of
Excellence Program in Health
Professions Education for UnderRepresented Minority Individuals
Health Resources and Services
Administration, HHS.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
Final Notice.
The Centers of Excellence
(COE) program in health professions
education for under-represented
minority (URM) individuals is
authorized by section 736 of the Public
Health Service Act (PHS Act), 42 U.S.C.
293 (2011). The purpose of this final
notice is to inform interested
individuals of the criteria that will be
used to determine the eligibility of
designated health professions schools to
apply for COE funding in fiscal year
(FY) 2012 and subsequent fiscal years.
The Supplementary Information in this
Notice provides a brief synopsis of the
public comments that the Health
Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA) received on the updates to the
proposed eligibility criteria in response
to the November 7, 2011 Federal
Register Notice, specifically addressing:
1) the proposed graduation threshold
eligibility criteria, 2) the COE eligibility
criteria in general, and 3) the purpose of
the COE program as authorized by the
PHS Act.
DATES: Effective Date: February 9, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Joan Weiss, Director, Division of Public
Health and Interdisciplinary Education,
Bureau of Health Professions, Health
Resources and Services Administration.
Dr. Weiss may be reached in one of
three following methods: 1) via written
request to: Dr. Joan Weiss, Designated
Federal Official, Bureau of Health
Professions, Health Resources and
Services Administration, Parklawn
Building, Room 9–36, 5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, Maryland 20852; 2) via
telephone at (301) 443–6950; or 3) via
email at jweiss@hrsa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Background
For more than 20 years, the COE
program has supported programs of
excellence in health professions
education for under-represented
minority (URM) individuals in
designated health professions schools.
The authorized categories of designated
health professions schools are: (1)
Designated Historically Black Colleges
and Universities (HBCUs), (2) Hispanic,
(3) Native American, and (4) ‘‘other’’
health professions schools that meet the
program requirements. COEs provide
academic enhancement programs to
URM individuals; develop a large and
competitive applicant pool to pursue
health professions careers; and improve
the capacity of schools to recruit, train,
and retain URM faculty. The COE
program facilitates faculty and student
research on health issues particularly
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affecting URM groups. In addition, the
program carries out activities to improve
information resources, clinical
education, curricula and cultural
competence of schools’ graduates
relating to minority health issues. COEs
also train students to provide health
services to URM individuals at
community-based health facilities and
provide financial assistance, as available
and appropriate. To be eligible for
funding, the PHS Act requires
designated schools to meet each of four
general conditions. The schools must:
(1) Have a significant number of URM
individuals enrolled in the school,
including individuals accepted for
enrollment in the school; (2) have been
effective in assisting URM students of
the school to complete the program of
education and receive the degree
involved; (3) have been effective in
recruiting URM individuals to enroll in
and graduate from the school, including
providing scholarships and other
financial assistance to such individuals
and encouraging URM students from all
levels of the educational pipeline to
pursue health professions careers; and
(4) have made significant recruitment
efforts to increase the number of URM
individuals serving in faculty or
administrative positions at the school
(See PHS Act, Section 736(c)(1)(B)(i)—
(iv)).
1. Proposed Graduation Threshold
Eligibility Criteria
The Federal Register Notice (FRN),
published November 7, 2011, updated
the eligibility criteria and requires
eligible health professions schools to
demonstrate effectiveness in assisting
URM students to successfully complete
the program of education and receive
the appropriate degree. The eligibility
criteria requires applicants to meet or
exceed a specified minimum number of
URM students graduating with
appropriate degrees. Graduation rates
are calculated and provided by health
professions schools applying for COE
funding. To account for varying class
sizes across the landscape of health
professions schools, the threshold
percentage for Hispanic, Native
American, and ‘‘Other’’ COEs within the
designated health professions will be
determined by the total number of URM
students graduating from the health
professions school with degrees divided
by the total number of students
graduating with degrees in a given
health professions school. The
percentage representing the cut-off point
for the top quartile (75th percentile) will
serve as the minimum percentage that
Hispanic, Native American, and
‘‘Other’’ COEs must meet.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration
[Docket No. FDA-2012-N-0001]
Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs; Notice of
Meeting
AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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This notice announces a forthcoming meeting of a public advisory
committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The meeting will
be open to the public.
Name of Committee: Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health
Drugs.
General Function of the Committee: To provide advice and
recommendations to the Agency on FDA's regulatory issues.
Date and Time: The meeting will be held on April 5, 2012, from 8
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Location: FDA White Oak Campus, Building 31, the Great Room, White
Oak Conference Center (rm. 1503), 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver
Spring, MD 20993-0002. Information regarding special accommodations due
to a disability, visitor parking and transportation may be accessed at
https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/default.htm; under the heading
``Resources for You'', click on ``Public Meetings at the FDA White Oak
Campus.'' Please note that visitors to the White Oak Campus must enter
through Building 1.
Contact Person: Kalyani Bhatt, Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research, Food and Drug Administration, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., WO31-
2417, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-9001, Fax: 301-847-8533,
email: ACRHD@fda.hhs.gov, or FDA Advisory Committee Information Line,
1-800-741-8138 (301-443-0572 in the Washington, DC area), and follow
the prompts to the desired center or product area. Please call the
Information Line for up-to-date information on this meeting. A notice
in the Federal Register about last minute modifications that impact a
previously announced advisory committee meeting cannot always be
published quickly enough to provide timely notice. Therefore, you
should always check the Agency's Web site and call the appropriate
advisory committee hot line/phone line to learn about possible
modifications before coming to the meeting.
Agenda: The committee will discuss the benefits and risks of
mirabegron (YM178), under new drug application (NDA) 202611, submitted
by Astellas Pharma Global Development Inc., for the proposed indication
of treatment of overactive bladder (OAB) with symptoms of urge urinary
incontinence, urgency, and urinary frequency. Mirabegron is a beta-3-
adrenoceptor (AR) agonist and is a new molecular entity. The benefit/
risk discussion will focus on the adequacy of the demonstration of
efficacy and safety in the treatment of OAB.
FDA intends to make background material available to the public no
later than two business days before the meeting. If FDA is unable to
post the background material on its Web site prior to the meeting, the
background material will be made publicly available at the location of
the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be
posted on FDA's Web site after the meeting. Background material is
available at https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/Calendar/default.htm. Scroll down to the appropriate advisory committee link.
Procedure: Interested persons may present data, information, or
views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committee.
Written
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submissions may be made to the contact person on or before March 22,
2012. Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled between
approximately 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. Those individuals interested in making
formal oral presentations should notify the contact person and submit a
brief statement of the general nature of the evidence or arguments they
wish to present, the names and addresses of proposed participants, and
an indication of the approximate time requested to make their
presentation on or before March 14, 2012. Time allotted for each
presentation may be limited. If the number of registrants requesting to
speak is greater than can be reasonably accommodated during the
scheduled open public hearing session, FDA may conduct a lottery to
determine the speakers for the scheduled open public hearing session.
The contact person will notify interested persons regarding their
request to speak by March 15, 2012.
Persons attending FDA's advisory committee meetings are advised
that the Agency is not responsible for providing access to electrical
outlets.
FDA welcomes the attendance of the public at its advisory committee
meetings and will make every effort to accommodate persons with
physical disabilities or special needs. If you require special
accommodations due to a disability, please contact Kalyani Bhatt at
least 7 days in advance of the meeting.
FDA is committed to the orderly conduct of its advisory committee
meetings. Please visit our Web site at https://www.fda.gov/AdvisoryCommittees/AboutAdvisoryCommittees/ucm111462.htm for procedures
on public conduct during advisory committee meetings.
Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (5 U.S.C. app. 2).
Dated: February 3, 2012.
Leslie Kux,
Acting Assistant Commissioner for Policy.
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