Newly released figures indicate the federal government spent just $8 million on psoriasis research in the last fiscal year, down from $10 million the previous year. This still leaves us ahead of the $5-6 million range we were stuck in for more than a decade through 2005, but shows that psoriasis research is still woefully underfunded relative to its negative impact on so many lives.
One of the challenges facing advocates of psoriasis research is that the overall budget for biomedical research (on cancer, AIDS, diabetes, etc.) has been stagnant for the last five years, at roughly $30 billion annually. But within that, psoriasis must do better.
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Category: Psoriasis Cure Now, Psoriasis Research, Public policy issues
