House shows bipartisan support of historic prioritization of Alzheimer’s disease

Because our stroke associations have totally failed us we have no positive articles like this. Stroke has not hit the tipping point because we always are bombarded with this 'happy talk' that all you have to do is get to a stroke hospital(F.A.S.T.) in 3 hours and you'll be made all better. What a FUCKING LIE!!! If you don't acknowledge that there are problems to be solved no one will be willing to help you.
Like all these f*cking problems in stroke that no one wants to talk about.
Or the fact that if you have a stroke right now you are screwed.
Or the fact that your doctor doesn't tell you anything about how to recover from a stroke.
http://www.alz.org/news_and_events_101507.asp?WT.mc_id=enews2015_06_17&
The House Labor, Health and Human Services (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Subcommittee today approved a historic $300 million increase for Alzheimer’s disease research as requested by Alzheimer’s Association advocates. If this increase becomes law, it will be the largest annual increase in federal Alzheimer’s research funding to date. The Alzheimer’s Association applauds this exemplary bipartisan effort to address this devastating and costly disease before Alzheimer’s prevalence triples and costs quadruple in just over a generation.

“In an act of true leadership, Chairman Cole and the bipartisan members of the subcommittee reached across the aisle today to change the trajectory of the Alzheimer’s epidemic,” said Harry Johns, president and CEO of the Alzheimer’s Association. “This bipartisan effort reflecting a more than a 50 percent increase in Alzheimer’s research funding shows that leaders on Capitol Hill are in agreement that the burden Alzheimer’s places on families and the nation must be addressed now.”

In March, more than 1,000 advocates from all 50 states gathered in the nation’s capital for the Alzheimer’s Association Advocacy Forum and asked their legislators for this increase of $300 million for Alzheimer’s research. The following month, Robert Egge, executive vice president of government affairs at the Alzheimer’s Association, testified before the House Labor, Health and Human Services (Labor-HHS) Appropriations Subcommittee, outlining the unique triple threat that Alzheimer’s disease poses:

• More than 5 million Americans and their 15 million unpaid caregivers are affected by Alzheimer’s disease.
• Already the most expensive disease in the country, according to the New England Journal of Medicine, the cost of Alzheimer’s to the nation will soar to $1.1 trillion by 2050, threatening family savings and the future of Medicare.
• Alzheimer’s is the only leading cause of death that cannot be prevented, cured or even slowed.

Earlier this year, the Alzheimer’s Association released Changing the Trajectory of Alzheimer's Disease: How a Treatment by 2025 Saves Lives and Dollars,(Stroke has NO plan) which reported that the United States could save $220 billion within the first five years of a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease being introduced. The report shows that meeting the goal of the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease — to prevent and effectively treat Alzheimer’s by 2025 — would reduce the number of individuals affected by the disease by 2.5 million within the first five years of a treatment being available.

Currently, Alzheimer’s disease receives $586 million a year in federal funding for research. Leading scientists have said it will take a ramp up to $2 billion a year to reach the goal of the National Alzheimer's Plan(Stroke has NO plan).