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FAIR NEWSLETTER
FAIR Announces New Board of Directors
The FAIR Foundation is proud to present its new Board of
Directors consisting of esteemed physicians and
disease representatives who want fair and equitable research
distributions from the National Institute of Health for all
diseases, including the sixteen that kill more Americans than
AIDS.
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Jacqueline Marcell: Keynote Speaker
FAIR Foundation Board Member and
best-selling author, Jacqueline Marcell,
delivered the
keynote speech to the Florida House of Representatives at The
Capitol in Tallahassee this month at their 3rd annual
Alzheimer's Summit. She also moderated a panel of heath care
experts following her presentation. Jacqueline Marcell is an
Author, Publisher, Radio Host, Speaker, Eldercare Advocate and
the FAIR Foundation's Patient Advocate for Alzheimer's
Disease. She is the author of
Elder Rage, or Take my Father....Please! How to Survive
Caring for Aging Parents.
Women, Heart Disease & AIDS
As reported by WebMDHealth reporter,
Charlotte Grayson, MD, the
numbers are staggering. Cardiovascular disease, which includes
heart disease, hypertension & stroke, is the number one killer
of women. It kills 500,000 women every year. That figure
exceeds the next seven causes of death combined. Yet
only 34% of women correctly identified it as a leading cause
of death.
Article. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports
that up to and including 2002, the total USA AIDS reported
cases in females is 152,060 (Statistics;
note: 20 states do not report to the CDC) In disease research
funding, the NIH is spending $175,248
per AIDS death versus $2,121
per death from cardiovascular disease.
Thai AIDS Vaccine Test
Doomed, Experts Say
As reported in the UN Wire,
A $119 million U.S.-funded AIDS
vaccine experiment being tested on 16,000 volunteers in
Thailand is sure to fail and was ill-advised from the start,
according to 22 HIV researchers writing in Friday's issue of
Science. See
Article. Note: the 2004 entire NIH budget for hepatitis C is
only 104 million. See your disease funding level by the NIH
here
Focus Disease:
Prostate Disease
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Prostate Disease is fatal: About
31,000 Americans die of prostate disease each year. That is almost
two times the
estimated deaths for HIV/AIDS in 2002
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Prostate Disease is
serious: It is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in America
among men
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Prostate Disease is Prevalent: Prostate
cancer is diagnosed every few minutes, over 200,000 new cases each
year. It is estimated that 2.8-3 million
men have this disease, which is three times the estimated
patients with HIV/AIDS.
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Prostate Disease and race:
Afro-Americans are 66% more likely to
have prostate disease than Caucasian men or Mexican-American men.
Afro-Americans have the highest prostate cancer incidence rates in
the world and are twice as likely to die from it than any other
group
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Fairness? The NIH is spending
$13,000 research dollars on each patient death
from Prostate Disease in 2004 versus
$175,248 on each patient death
from HIV/AIDS
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Prostate Disease and all other diseases except
HIV/AIDS would receive larger research allocations under the FAIR
Foundation's policy.
Prostate Disease statistics from
the CDC, CA-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians,
National Prostate Cancer
Coalition and National Cancer
Institute: Surveillance,
Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)
Please encourage organ donation by forwarding this short
presentation (high speed connection required):
"My Heroes"
Please help us in our efforts to gain fair and equitable NIH
distributions for ALL diseases by
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FAIR Mission Statement:
The FAIR Foundation is
dedicated to fair and equitable distribution of
research funds by the NIH for all diseases, including the 16
that kill a million more Americans than AIDS. A disease’s mortality rate
shall be given emphasis in determining allocations and other
secondary factors shall be utilized to insure diseases
that cause great suffering but have low mortality rates will
also receive significantly increased funding.
and please remember....
FAIR is an acronym for Fair Allocations In
Research. FAIR is fair.
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