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FasterCures launches Sequestration StationPosted: 25 Oct 2012 09:14 AM PDTFasterCures today launched Sequestration Station – an online destination for relevant and up-to-date news and resources about how sequestration could impact medical research.
The prospect of automatic spending cuts, or sequestration, which will take effect in January 2013 if Congress does nothing, threatens the future of U.S. leadership in medical research and development and will delay or permanently remove access to life-saving medical treatments. Sequestration would slash federal investments in critical health, scientific, medical, and biological research aimed at discovering treatments, moving safe and effective new medicines to market, and creating innovations to grow our economy.
According to a report released by the Office of Management and Budget, sequestration would have a "devastating impact" on scientific research. Here’s how this will impact two agencies critical to advancing life-saving therapies:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will face an 8.2 percent cut, resulting in a $2.518 billion loss. In addition to the discretionary cuts, an additional $150 million in mandatory budget authority (for diabetes research) will be subject to a 7.6 percent cut, equal to $11 million, making the total cut to NIH equal to $2.529 billion.
$3.873 billion of FDA's budget is subject to an 8.2 percent reduction (merely $67 million of the agency's budget is exempt from the sequester). That cut means that sequestration will erase $318 million from the FDA's budget. Virtually all user fees that were active in FY 12 are considered part of the sequester. Such a loss will devastate the agency, cripple its ability to do its job, and put millions of Americans at greater risk from unsafe food and drugs that come from both inside our borders and abroad
At stake: our economy, national productivity, global competitiveness, and progress against life-threatening disease. Making medical research a national priority benefits all of us.
We’re concerned and you should be, too. But there is something you can do. Contact your Members of Congress and let them know that further cuts to the NIH and FDA will set us back on the path to new therapies and cures for disease, jeopardize our economic competitiveness, and result in loss of jobs in communities throughout the country. Share with them why a strong investment in medical research is important to you, your family, and your community.
Medical research matters – we must continue to fund it. When it comes to medical research, saving time means saving livesPosted: 25 Oct 2012 09:12 AM PDT That's the theme of a new social media campaign by FasterCures.
We launched Time Equals Lives to make a compelling statement about why we must invest in medical research. Time Equals Lives is a platform for personal stories, each one on its own is a strong case for why research matters, and when woven together collectively these stories create an imperative to make medical research a national priority.
The campaign is anchored around FasterCures’ operating principle that to save lives, we must save time in medical research - the way we search for discoveries, turn these discoveries into therapies, and bring these therapies to patients.
We are collecting stories from:patients and their families whose lives have been altered by disease,
scientists and researchers facing incredible obstacles to advancing their work, but whose relentless efforts are bringing us closer to a cure, and
impatient advocates who know too well that improving a system means disrupting it and playing an active role in reshaping it.
The Time Equals Lives campaign provides our nation with a bird’s eye view of the critical importance of medical research. It is our goal to ensure we share these stories effectively and amplify their messages to leaders and decision makers whose work can chart the course of our future well-being. Here are some of the things we look forward to doing throughout this campaign:delivering these stories in a creative and compelling ways to Members of Congress;
packaging these stories and sharing them effectively with Administration officials;
preparing these stories for all stakeholders in the medical research advocacy community to use as appropriate to advance their respective goals.
We built the site in the public domain with the express purpose of making this resource available for the medical research advocacy community to use as appropriate. We urge you and those you know to add your stories to the mix. Here's how to get involved:VISIT the campaign Web site
LIKE the Facebook page
TWEET with us at #TimeEqLives
DOWNLOAD and SHARE the Message
TELL us your story
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