Congressmen Ask Fellow Congressmen to Support Equitable Funding for Migraine & Headache Disorders

WASHINGTON, DC-(Thursday, March 12th, 2009)-(Updated March 14th, 2009)-Today Congressmen Peter Welch issued Dear Colleague letter already signed by three other U.S. Representatives who are asking for other members of Congress to join them and sign this important Congressional document to improve the healthcare for over 48 million Americans.  What Congresspersons Peter Welch, Jean Schmidt, Tammy Baldwin, and Raul Grijalva asking for what MAGNUM requested during their visits to the Senate and the Congress while attending Headache On the Hill 2   in the nation's capitol last month.

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Help Your Congressperson to Support Equitable Funding for Migraine & Headache Disorders Today!

Here is their request-

In short we all asked that the House L-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee prioritize the full and equitable funding of NIH research on Migraine disease and headache disorders in the FY2010 federal budget.

In an e-mail which went out this morning to all members of Congress stated the following:

Help address a group of disorders that disables over 48 million Americans.

Join us in requesting that the House L-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee prioritize the full and equitable funding of NIH research on headache disorders in the FY2010 federal budget.
 
Headache disorders, including migraine, chronic daily headache and cluster headache, affect over 48 million of our constituents. NIH funding for research into these disorders has never been appropriate to the scale of the problem. (See attached fact sheet.)
 

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