Lupus Funding, Signed, Sealed and Delivered
It's a done deal!
With a stroke of the Presidential pen, $1 million has been appropriated to lupus medical education in the 2012 federal budget. The Omnibus appropriations bill (HR2055) bill was
signed into law, providing the resources to train healthcare professionals to recognize diagnose and treat lupus quickly and effectively. Having first identified the need to combat racial disparities in lupus medical education and led the crusade on Capitol Hill, the Lupus Research Institute is particularly gratified by this significant support at the federal level.
Lupus patients live a lifetime with a disease that doesn't show, isn't widely understood and often overlooked. To gain the recognition of the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives means that lupus is a disease that matters and that people do care. With the might of every branch of the United States government behind us, Life Without Lupus beckons not as a vision but as a very real goal.
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This is awesome news!!!!!
Great news. It is a major step forward.
This is awesome news!! I am in VA with my 2 children and 5 grandsons and have been in a flare for 9 days. They understand that I have lupus bot no one can understand the pain. I try not to complain but when I'm in this much pain, it's really hard not to. The last time I came down here from MA, the exact same thing happened. Does anyone have any ideas why ??
janice said:
This is awesome news!!!!!
YAY! FINALLY, THEY SEE US OVER HERE!!!! WONDERFUL, ABSOLUTLEY AWESOME & BOY, MEANS SO MUCH FOR OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURES TOO!!! :0) SUZIE :0) KEEP PRAYING EVERYONE, SEE, 2012, IS STARTIN' OFF RIGHT!!! ;)
Thank you all for your support of the Lupus Research Institute. For more information about lupus, treatment and our continued drive towards a cure, please feel free to visit www.lupusresearchinstitute.org. Or get involved in the discussions at http://www.facebook.com/lupusny and http://www.facebook.com/lupusresearch.
Jayebones, changes in altitude, humidity, weather changes and barometric pressure all affect pain. I'm researching a place I could move to and feel better.
Sheila