A substitute amendment that reduces the authorization for the National Cancer Institute Research by 400 million dollars in FY '83 to approximately 500 million dollars; reduces funds for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes by 300 million dollars; authorizes the Health and Human Services Department to conduct a study on the use of animals in research; it eliminates provisions requiring NIH to establish procedures for investigating scientific misconduct in research and for NIH peer review, which establishes centers across the U.S. for research in disease prevention; study the future health care needs of the elderly; establishes a learning disability task force; increases research efforts for spinal cord regeneration; investigates reactions to the pertussis vaccine; studies the impact of commercialization of medical knowledge.