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Jennie Spotila: "2015 NIH Spending on ME/CFS Studies"

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Sasha

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Jennie Spotila said:
Since Dr. Collins’s announcement in October 2015 that NIH was renewing its focus on ME/CFS, I’ve been wondering when we would see that reflected in concrete, tangible action. In my opinion, the easiest thing to measure is the money. How much did NIH spend in 2015 on ME/CFS grants, and what did they spend it on?

The surprising news is that in fiscal year 2015, NIH spent $6,470,000 on ME/CFS grants, an increase of 20% over fiscal year 2014. But even this level of increase is too small to get us to our appropriate funding level any time soon...
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Read more at:

http://www.occupycfs.com/2016/02/17/2015-nih-spending-on-mecfs-studies/
 
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Needs more like double the funding of MS based on overall statistical data.

So probably over 200 million would be fare and representative of the overall impact...
 
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Justin30 said:
Needs more like double the funding of MS based on overall statistical data.

So probably over 200 million would be fare and representative of the overall impact...
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Someone calculated it pro rata with MS (I think) and it's $250 million. You can sign a petition about it on meaction.net (which I can't load at the moment!).
 
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