February 16th 2011 | Get involved, Psoriasis Cure Now, Psoriasis Research, Public policy issues | 2 Comments
The US Government, through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), maintained in 2010 its record level of research funding for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. The total was $16 million, as it was in 2009. As recently as 2005 the total was just $5 million.
Progress!
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February 11th 2009 | Psoriasis Cure Now, Psoriasis Research, Public policy issues | 0 Comments
According to the New York Times, the final stimulus bill that will be voted on and become law this week includes $10 billion over two years for medical research funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), thanks to Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.
NIH funding has been stagnant for five years, and currently totals about
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February 6th 2009 | Psoriasis Cure Now, Psoriasis Research, Public policy issues | 0 Comments
“Psoriasis Cure Now,” a nonprofit patient advocacy organization, has launched a micro-Web site, www.StimulateResearch.com, to help everyday Americans interested in medical research be heard in the stimulus debate that has been dominated by powerful lobbyists and special interests. The Web site allows people to write their lawmakers urging them to make biomedical research a meaningful
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November 13th 2008 | Psoriasis Research, Public policy issues | 0 Comments
As Congress is approaching $1,000,000,000,000 in taxpayer-funded bailouts to companies run by people who made bad decisions, biomedical research funding by the federal government has been stagnant for nearly 5 years. The latest Congressional effort, to give another $50 billion to the Big Three automakers, equals almost two years of the entire federal government’s
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February 11th 2008 | Psoriasis Research, Public policy issues | 0 Comments
Psoriasis Cure Now today applauded Congress and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for delivering a record $10 million in psoriasis research funding during fiscal year 2007. Psoriasis research has traditionally been underfunded at NIH. Since 1995, NIH funding on other diseases has risen 159% (before inflation), but psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis research
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