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Created in 2008, Phoenix Rising is the largest and oldest forum dedicated to furthering the understanding of, and finding treatments for, complex chronic illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), fibromyalgia, long COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), and allied diseases.
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$51 billion economic costs - Resch et al., Cost Eff Resour Alloc 2011
$19-24 billion (different samples) - Jason et al., Dyn Med 2008.
Annual NIH spending on CFS: $5-6 million.
Comparison with other diseases:
Obesity - $59 billion economic costs (inflation adjusted) http://www.ajcn.org/content/55/2/503S.short - $780 million in NIH research spending
Autism - $38 billion economic costs (inflation adjusted) http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/161/4/343 - $143 million in NIH spending
HIV/AIDS - $43 billion (inflation adjusted) http://journals.lww.com/jaids/fullt...burden_of_hiv_in_the_united_states_in.12.aspx - $3,180 million in NIH spending
Diabetes - $174 billion - http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/31/3/596.abstract - $1,080 milion in NIH spending
Awesome.
Proud to be an American!
I'm pround to be un-American.
I agree - really a great job by Courtney! We should hire her . Just think if we could have a person in every Town Hall meeting get up and ask a question about ME/CFS..We just need more coordination...
Awesome.
Proud to be an American!
I'm an American and I'm not proud how this government has purposefully ignored, ridiculed , belittled and basically let us suffer and die for the past 25 years.
SO the president fielded a question and said he would look into it?
Is this all it takes to be proud to be an American from members of the ME/CFS community
Talk about easy to please. Personally 3 bucks a patient does not make me proud to be an American.