On Sept. 19, Reps. André Carson (D-Ind.), Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) and Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) introduced H. Res. 1458 to designate Sept. 16-20 as Medical Research Week. The resolution highlights the vital work of the medical research community in achieving better health outcomes and notes the importance of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding.
Earlier this summer, the AANS and the CNS joined other physician organizations in sending a letter to the House Appropriations Committee opposing their proposal to consolidate the 27 NIH institutes into 17. Under this proposal, dental and craniofacial diseases, neurological disorders and stroke, and eye diseases and visual disorders would be consolidated into a newly formed National Institute of Neuroscience and Brain Research. The letter calls on the Committee to hold congressional hearings and a deliberate bipartisan and bicameral process.
Click here to read the letter.
