Fw: If the facts are true, troubling for MS

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Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:14 PM

Subject: If the facts are true, troubling for MS

Dear friend,As a follow up to email earlier with the link to the Myelin Repair Foundation,the following points they presented as facts:Historically, the focus of government and non-profit organizations are looking for the "cure"They do not have a mechanism to allow or even encourage collaborationThey prefer to fund incremental "sure thing" experiments not innovative, higher risk, breakthrough oriented researchFor FY 2001, the NMSS spent 19% of their $156Million budget on researchThe NMSS spent less than 0.5% of their budget on research related to any type of CNS repairNIH allocated less than 0.3% of their budget on research with any relation to MSIn terms of research funding, MS ranks 48th on NIH's priority list of diseases.

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At least there is some quite recent good news regarding the NMSS and funding for research into CNS repair. (Since I'm not on all these lists, I apologize if this has already been discussed on some of them.) Go to http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Research-2004Jan30.asp to read this news story.

Galoux