SWAlexander
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This article shows plenty disregard for ME/CFS patients
Excerpt: Whether the NIH-funded ME/CFS research centers working is a pretty darn big question to ask. Six years ago – pre-NIH Center funding – funding for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) had just about bottomed out. In 2015, the NIH was spending a miserable $6 million on ME/CFS. Despite years of advocacy, despite promising findings in the research field, despite the million-plus people which studies suggest may have the most functionally disabling disease known, the NIH was actually – adjusted for inflation – spending less, much less – on ME/CFS than it had been twenty years earlier.
Read: https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2021/10/19/mass-nih-funded-chronic-fatigue-research-centers/.
It is time to become political and write or email to Senator Edward Markey.
I did already.
Excerpt: Whether the NIH-funded ME/CFS research centers working is a pretty darn big question to ask. Six years ago – pre-NIH Center funding – funding for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) had just about bottomed out. In 2015, the NIH was spending a miserable $6 million on ME/CFS. Despite years of advocacy, despite promising findings in the research field, despite the million-plus people which studies suggest may have the most functionally disabling disease known, the NIH was actually – adjusted for inflation – spending less, much less – on ME/CFS than it had been twenty years earlier.
Read: https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2021/10/19/mass-nih-funded-chronic-fatigue-research-centers/.
It is time to become political and write or email to Senator Edward Markey.
I did already.