Category Archives: HR 2239
10 Years and 11 IBS Awareness Months: Progress for the IBS Community Continues in 2018
by Nina Pan, IBS Impact founder and primary blogger for IBS Impact. Five years ago, on April 24, 2013, I wrote a post for IBS Awareness Month that began with some reflections on my personal experiences with IBS, as well as my motivations for IBS Impact. At that time, I had been living with IBS for …
IBS Awareness Month 2017: Approaching a Decade of IBS.
by Nina Pan, IBS Impact founder and primary blogger for IBS Impact. Four years ago, on April 24, 2013, I wrote a post for IBS Awareness Month that began with some reflections on my personal experiences with IBS, as well as my motivations for IBS Impact. At that time, I had been living with IBS for …
IBS Awareness Month 2016: How Far We Have Come and Have Left to Go
by Nina Pan, IBS Impact founder and primary blogger for IBS Impact. Three years ago, on April 24, 2013, I wrote a post for IBS Awareness Month that began with some reflections on my personal experiences with IBS, as well as my motivations for IBS Impact. At that time, I had been living with IBS for …
Representatives Cummings of Maryland and Davis of California Co-Sponsor HR 2239 for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders
UPDATE: HR 2239 did not pass in the 112th Congress. In February 2013, the Act was reintroduced in the 113th Congress as HR 842. Please see the March 2, 2013 post or click on the HR 842 category on the blog sidebar for updated information. Representatives Elijah Cummings (D-MD-7) and Susan Davis (D-CA-53) have recently become …
Representative Posey of Florida Co-Sponsors HR 2239 for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders
UPDATE: HR 2239 did not pass in the 112th Congress. In February 2013, the Act was reintroduced in the 113th Congress as HR 842. Please see the March 2, 2013 post or click on the HR 842 category on the blog sidebar for updated information. Representative Bill Posey (R-FL-15) has recently become a co-sponsor to …
Representative Boren of Oklahoma Co-Sponsors HR 2239 for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders
UPDATE: HR 2239 did not pass in the 112th Congress. In February 2013, the Act was reintroduced in the 113th Congress as HR 842. Please see the March 2, 2013 post or click on the HR 842 category on the blog sidebar for updated information. On the heels of two other new co-sponsors the previous …
Representatives Hirono of Hawai’i and Kind of Wisconsin Co-Sponsor HR 2239 for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders
UPDATE: HR 2239 did not pass in the 112th Congress. In February 2013, the Act was reintroduced in the 113th Congress as HR 842. Please see the March 2, 2013 post or click on the HR 842 category on the blog sidebar for updated information. Last week IFFGD reported that Representative Mazie Hirono (D-HI-2) and …
IFFGD/DHA Congressional Call-In Day for IBS/Functional GI Research is June 12, 2012
The International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and its grassroots arm, the Digestive Health Alliance, have scheduled next Tuesday, June 12, 2012 as Congressional Call-In Day for this year. U.S. citizens with IBS and/or other functional GI disorders and their families and friends are all urged to contact their members of the federal House of …
Representatives Perlmutter of Colorado and Price of North Carolina Co-Sponsor HR 2239 for Functional Gastrointestinal and Motility Disorders
UPDATE: HR 2239 did not pass in the 112th Congress. In February 2013, the Act was reintroduced in the 113th Congress as HR 842. Please see the March 2, 2013 post or click on the HR 842 category on the blog sidebar for updated information. According to THOMAS, the Library of Congress legislative database, and …
ACTION ALERT: U.S. Citizens, Advocate for Fiscal Year 2013 National Institutes of Health Budget
The following is an excerpt of an action alert that was received recently from IFFGD/the Digestive Health Alliance: Greetings! We want to let you know about a threat to medical research, and how you can help stop it. Under the Budget Control Act of 2011, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s biomedical …
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