Nielk
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Sequestration is a big puzzle to me.
If you look at the funding by disease table, http://report.nih.gov/categorical_spending.aspx many categories see their budhet increase by a few millions, including cancer, asthma, complimentary and alternative medicine (OMG 487 millions), digestive diseases, epilepsy, estrogen, genetics and genetic testing, coronary heart disease, HIV/AIDS (increase by 27 millions from 2013 to 2014!!!).
The fact remains that there is so much stigma surrounding ME/CFS that HHS does not think we are worthy of more than 5millions.
There is a category on that NIH funding table per disease for "Emerging Infectious Disease" with over 2 billion dollars funded! Can't we get part of that pie?