Health Research Amendments of 1985

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Health Research Amendments of 1985 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to repeal the requirement for an ongoing study of the health costs of pollution. Repeals the prohibition on grants or contracts for clinical research designed to evaluate the efficacy of any therapeutic, diagnostic, or preventive health measure. Eliminates the support for multidisciplinary health services research centers. Repeals the requirement for data collection on the effects of the environment on health. Authorizes appropriations for assistance to medical libraries through FY 1988. Repeals the National Cancer Institute budget bypass provision. Increases the limits on grants which the Directors of the National Cancer Institute and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute may approve without advisory board or council approval. Increases the support period for cancer research and demonstration centers. Amends the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1977 and the Health Services Research, Health Statistics, and Health Care Technology Act of 1978 to eliminate the Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease. Amends the Orphan Drug Act to repeal the requirement for the support of at least ten sic…