If you are in New Hampshire you need to get involved The focus on stroke prevention is lazy and wrong. Get them to focus on preventing the neuronal cascade of death. I only have 165 possibilities here.
http://nhregister.com/articles/2013/04/24/news/valley/doc51781216d7564330851938.txt
State Sen. Joseph J. Crisco, Jr., D-Woodbridge, Senate chair of the
legislature’s Insurance and Real Estate Committee, has won unanimous
Senate approval for his initiative to expand the state’s innovative and
highly successful Biomedical Research Fund to include grants for studies
into the cause and cure for strokes.
Crisco said the
debilitating result of strokes can devastate the afflicted and their
families alike and should be the focus of renewed and intensified
medical research.
The Biomedical Research Fund was established
through legislation originally introduced by Crisco. Each year the state
Department of Public Health directs tobacco settlement funds to
underwrite worthy research seeking a cure for heart disease, cancer,
other smoking-related diseases; in 2010 its scope was expanded to
include Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes.
“Researchers already
know several risk factors with regard to stroke that include high blood
pressure, atherosclerosis, and tobacco use, each of which aligns
perfectly with the original purpose of the Biomedical Research Fund,”
Crisco said.
“But the debilitating fallout from stroke
depends on which part of the brain is deprived of blood and oxygen, and
for how long, so there’s a world of research still waiting to be done.”
Crisco
said Connecticut’s Biomedical Research Fund was originally meant to
supplement funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) but over
time, with drastic cuts at the federal level, Connecticut’s program has
largely supplanted NIH grants.
“There are more than seven
million stroke survivors in the United States who are recovering, but
additional research is needed to help them – and new stroke patients –
do so more quickly and more thoroughly,” Crisco added.
“Additional
research might be in order to help prevent strokes among higher risk
groups like women, older men, and African-Americans.”
Crisco said
the bill expand the scope of the Biomedical Research Fund to include
strokes now advances to the House of Representatives for its
consideration.
This post is taken from a press release from Crisco's office.
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