National Institutes of Health Amendments of 1990

National Institutes of Health Amendments of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a nonprofit corporation, known as the National Foundation for Biomedical Research and not, subject to exception, an agency of the Government. Requires the Foundation to establish a fund to provide endowments for positions at the National Institutes of Health to conduct biomedical research and to recruit scientists to hold such positions. Authorizes appropriations, prohibiting amounts appropriated from being provided to the fund. Establishes in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research to conduct and support: (1) research and research training; (2) dissemination of information; and (3) other programs with respect to the rehabilitation of individuals with physical disabilities resulting from diseases or disorders of any physiological system. Authorizes the Director of the Center to make grants and enter into cooperative agreements and contracts. Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health to establish the Medical Rehabilitation Coordinating Committee and the National Advisory Board on Medical Rehabilitation Research. Requires the coordinating committee and the advisory board to develop a comprehensive plan for the conduct and support of medical rehabilitation research. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the heads of other Federal agencies to jointly review the programs being carried out by each such official with respect to medical rehabilitation research and enter into agreements for preventing duplication.

National Institutes of Health Reauthorization Act of 1990 - Title I: Reauthorization of Certain National Institutes - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Requires the Director of the NHLBI, in carrying out the National Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung, and Blood Diseases and Blood Resources Program, to support training and education. Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions relating to: (1) medical libraries and related instrumentalities; and (2) payments under National Research Service Awards and under grants for the Awards. Allows the National Library of Medicine, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to make rules regarding the basis on which its publications, materials, facilities, or services may be used. (Current law allows the Library to make such rules, but makes no reference to other provisions of law.) Allows the rules to include use under licensing arrangements that provide for quality control and full recovery of access costs. Amends the Health Omnibus Programs Extension of 1988 to require the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research to recommend, for the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) as well as for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), estimates of the expenditures needed to carry out each Institute's part of the overall program. Extends the due date for a report by the Commission. Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations: (1) to carry out provisions authorizing a grant for a registry of epidemiological data about Alzheimer's disease; and (2) for the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Requires that a report by the Secretary concerning carcinogens be published biennially rather than annually. Authorizes appropriations for the Biomedical Ethics Board and the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee. Removes provisions requiring the Committee to study and submit a report relating to fetal research, focusing on the nature, advisability, and biomedical and ethical implications of exercising any waiver of the risk standard published in certain regulations. Extends through 48 months after enactment of this Act the period during which the Secretary is prohibited from granting a modification or waiver, under certain regulations, for fetal research. Directs the Secretary to establish a nonprofit corporation, known as the National Foundation for Biomedical Research and not, subject to exception, an agency of the Government, to support research within the NIH and ADAMHA, and to take other actions. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals these provisions regarding the Foundation, subject to exception, five years after enactment of this Act. Declares that the purpose of the National Center for Human Genome Research is to: (1) provide advice to the Director of the NIH regarding genomic research; (2) coordinate such research; (3) formulate research goals, criteria, and plans; (4) serve as a focal point on genomic analysis within the NIH; and (5) foster research and research training programs. Includes among the Center's authorities that of providing research grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and training awards. Directs the Secretary to appoint an advisory council for the Center. Requires the Director of the Institute of Child Health and Human Development to make grants and enter into contracts for centers for improving methods of contraception and centers for diagnosing and treating infertility. Requires the Director, subject to appropriations, to provide for three centers with respect to contraception and two centers with respect to infertility. Requires each center to: (1) conduct clinical and other applied research; (2) develop training protocols for and conduct training of physicians, scientists, nurses, and other health and allied health professionals; (3) develop model continuing education programs; and (4) disseminate information to such professionals. Allows a center to use the funds to provide: (1) stipends for health and allied health professionals enrolled in the training programs; and (2) fees to individuals serving as subjects in the clinical trials. Requires each center to use the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a consortium of cooperating institutions, meeting requirements as prescribed by the Secretary. Allows support for a center to be for a period of up to five years, with extensions of one or more periods of up to five years if the center's operations have been reviewed by a peer review group and the group has so recommended. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish a program of entering into agreements with health professionals, including graduate students, under which the professionals agree to conduct research with respect to contraception or infertility in consideration of the Government agreeing to repay, for each year of such service, not more than a specified amount of the principal and interest of their educational loans. Applies provisions of the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program to this program, except as inconsistent. Authorizes appropriations. Requires amounts appropriated to remain available until the end of the second fiscal year after they are appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary, in carrying out provisions relating to the NIH, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to enter into licensing agreements that provide for quality control and the full recovery of access costs. Title II: Women's Health Research - Directs the Secretary, with regard to the NIH and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA), to ensure, in conducting or supporting clinical research, that women and minority groups are included as research subjects, unless inappropriate. Requires that any project be designed and carried out so as to provide for a valid analysis of whether the research variables affect women or minorities differently than other subjects. Directs the Secretary to establish within the advisory council of each institute and each agency of ADAMHA a Clinical Research Equity Subcommittee to review all clinical research of that agency to determine whether the research is being conducted in accordance with requirements of this Act. Provides for suspension or revocation of the authority for any project the Secretary determines is not being conducted in accordance with those requirements. Defines "minority groups" to mean racial and ethnic minority groups. Requires that the technical and scientific peer review process in the institutes and ADAMHA include an evaluation of the inclusion of women and minority groups as research subjects. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the NIH, to establish an Office of Women's Health Research to ensure that research relating to women's health is identified and addressed throughout the research activities conducted or supported by the NIH. Directs the Secretary, through the Director of the Office, to: (1) establish an intramural research program in gynecology at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; (2) establish a clinical service in gynecology; and (3) establish a Center for Women's Health Research to support research. Requires the Director of the Office to establish a coordinating council and the Women's Health Clinical Research Advisory Committee. Requires the Director of the NIH to establish a program to provide information concerning research, treatment, and prevention activities relating to women's health and gender differences. Directs the Secretary to establish a data bank regarding women's health and gender differences to compile information concerning clinical trials and treatments and make the information available to the public. Requires the executive director of the data bank to maintain a registry of ongoing clinical trials of experimental treatments regarding women and gender differences. Requires the sponsor of a clinical trial approved by the Food and Drug Administration to provide information concerning the research to the data bank.

National Institutes of Health Reauthorization Act of 1990 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Requires the Director of the NHLBI, in carrying out the National Heart, Blood Vessel, Lung, and Blood Diseases and Blood Resources Program, to support training and education. Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions relating to: (1) medical libraries and related instrumentalities; and (2) payments under National Research Service Awards and under grants for the Awards. Allows the National Library of Medicine, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to make rules regarding the basis on which its publications, materials, facilities, or services may be used. (Current law allows the Library to make such rules, but makes no reference to other provisions of law.) Allows the rules to include use under licensing arrangements that provide for quality control and full recovery of access costs. Amends the Health Omnibus Programs Extension of 1988 to require the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research to recommend, for the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) as well as for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), estimates of the expenditures needed to carry out each Institute's part of the overall program. Extends the due date for a report by the Commission. Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations: (1) to carry out provisions authorizing a grant for a registry of epidemiological data about Alzheimer's disease; and (2) for the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Requires that a report by the Secretary concerning carcinogens be published biennially rather than annually. Authorizes appropriations for the Biomedical Ethics Board and the Biomedical Ethics Advisory Committee. Removes provisions requiring the Committee to study and submit a report relating to fetal research, focusing on the nature, advisability, and biomedical and ethical implications of exercising any waiver of the risk standard published in certain regulations. Directs the Secretary to establish a nonprofit corporation, known as the National Foundation for Biomedical Research and not, subject to exception, an agency of the Government, to support research within the NIH and ADAMHA, and to take other actions. Authorizes appropriations. Repeals these provisions regarding the Foundation, subject to exception, five years after enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary, in carrying out provisions relating to the NIH, notwithstanding any other provision of law, to enter into licensing agreements that provide for quality control and the full recovery of access costs.