---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 285d–8"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "285d–8"
heading: "Juvenile arthritis and related conditions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/285d-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter III — National Research Institutes"
  - "Part C — Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes"
  - "Subpart 4 — national institute of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases"
---

# §285d–8. Juvenile arthritis and related conditions

- (a) **Expansion and coordination of activities—** The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Institute, in coordination with the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, shall expand and intensify the [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) of such Institutes with respect to research and related activities concerning juvenile arthritis and related conditions.
- (b) **Coordination—** The [Directors](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) shall jointly coordinate the [programs](/usc/42/274l–1.md?p=4) referred to in such subsection and consult with the Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Interagency Coordinating Committee.

## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 442A, as added Pub. L. 106–310, div. A, title III, § 301(a), Oct. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 1111; amended Pub. L. 109–482, title I, § 103(b)(23), Jan. 15, 2007, 120 Stat. 3688.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2007—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–482 struck out heading and text of subsec. (c). Text read as follows: “For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2001 through 2005.”

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2007 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 109–482 applicable only with respect to amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2007 or subsequent fiscal years, see section 109 of Pub. L. 109–482, set out as a note under section 281 of this title.