DU scientists and their supporters - PubChem needs you!

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The American Chemical Society (ACS)is calling on Congress to shut
down the NIH's PubChem, a freely accessible database that connects
chemical information with biomedical research and clinical information, organizing facts in numerous public databases into a unified whole. It is a critical component of NIH's Molecular Libraries Initiative, which in turn is a key element of the NIH strategic "roadmap" to speed new medical treatments and improve healthcare.

ACS claims that PubChem competes with Chemical Abstracts Service
(CAS). In reality, PubChem and the Chemical Abstracts Service
databases are complementary, not duplicative. If ACS succeeds in
eliminating PubMed, scientific progress will be throttled.

ACS lobbying efforts are targeting: * the Ohio delegation in Congress,
* Rep. Ralph Regula (OH), Chairman of the House Appropriations
Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, and * Senator Arlen Specter (PA), Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies./*

*Please consider contacting Rep. Regula (tel. [phone], fax
202-225-3059> and Senator Specter (tel. [phone], fax [phone]).

If you live in Ohio, please also contact your U.S. Representative and
Senators (Ohio delegation contact information is available at
http://www.senate.gov/ and http://www.house.gov/

*For PubChem background go to: *http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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