Congress Hold Hearings on Migraine Disease To be delivered to: The United States Senate and The United States House of Representatives Urge Congressional Hearings on the Impact of Migraine and Headache Disorders, especially before the Primary Health and Aging Subcommittee of the Senate HELP Committee and/or before the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, prior to the close of the 112th Congress (January 2013). I suffer from chronic daily migraines. Migraines have rendered me unable to work, have reduced my social support to a few old friends, have robbed me of the opportunity to fulfill my goals and dreams, have stopped me from engaging as a citizen in important civic issues, and have damaged my relationship with my family of origin, who see me as lazy and negative. According to the National Headache Foundation, more than 29.5 million Americans suffer from migraine, with women being affected three times more often than men. Of those affected, 38% of migraineurs suffer from 1-12 migraines each year, 38% get 1-3 a month, 37% get 1 per week, and 11% get 2-6 migraines a week (relieve-migraine-headache.com). Chronic migraine (15+ migraines per month) impacts approximately 3.2 million Americans (Migraine.com). Migraine ranks in the top 20 most disabling diseases according to the WHO....and yet it is one of the most misunderstood diseases, by both the general public and health care professionals. While societal costs are hard to quantify, migraine disease has a significant economic impact: headache disorders lead to more than $31B in economic costs in the US annually. Despite these statistics, the National Institute of Health gave less than 0.05% of its 2007 budget to migraine research ($13M) which translates to approximately $0.36 per migraineur. Diabetes, in comparison, received $1.037B (or $49.38 per diabetic). There has been no improvement in the funding: in 2010 the percentage was the same. Over the past 50 years, only one innovative drug (sumatriptan), discovered and developed specifically for migraine, has been approved for clinical use after review by the FDA. Only 290 US doctors are Board-certified as specialty trained in Headache Medicine. It is well past time for migraine disease and other headache disorders to receive the funding and attention they deserve. To date, no US Congressional committee has ever held a public hearing on headache disorders yet just recently they discussed Lyme disease, estimated to affect 40,000 people. Unless Congress fully understands the disease there is no reason to believe the National Institute of Health will allocate more of its budget to headache and migraine research. Without more research, we will have the status quo: ineffective treatments and millions of Americans needlessly living in pain. The Alliance for Headache Advocacy has formed a petition asking Congress to hold hearings before the close of the 112th Congressional Session. As of March 2012, they only had some 10K signatures. Perhaps this is because migraineurs are in too much pain to advocate for themselves. Please help me to bombard them with signatures.

I have a multiple medical conditions. If I did not have obama care and the right to obtain health insurance from a provider: EX: BLUE CROSS-BLUE SHIELD. I would not be alive today. By me having the right to chose doctors, providers and purchase heatlh care insurance that is afforable on my fixed monthly income. The doctors and providers has multiple opportunities to explore treatments for my multipe, incurable, unpredictable medical conditions that I would not have been possible without Obama Care and afforable health care. I'm very thankful and blessed by God to have the chance to live and obtain my dreams.

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I have severe physical handicap issues walking disability tumor in my spine, compressed disks missing discs arthritis through my whole body, knee that was supposed to be operated on but had to cancel surgery because there was no one to take care of me. I have fibromyalgia two rotator cuff surgeries. Yet lo and behold the state will no longer give me my medicine without prior authorization which could take 10 days and we are limited to 6 prescriptions per month I am in severe pain and have been without my medicine for 3 days and counting.

And that 26k is not a car payment for a Ferrari. That is the broad range that Americans have to pay for non generic drugs. And now the pharmacist lobbyists want to extend the time the it takes prescription drugs from reaching the market from 5 years to 10 years. And if you are like me who has to pay $300 a month to pay for his prescriptions because my insurance will not cover it and can't afford to get better insurance, this is not acceptable. But this is even more absurd for those such as cancer patients or others with serious mental health disorders who have to pay more a month than people in the %1 even make a year. This petitions goal is to reduce the time it takes prescription drugs to become generic by changing the law from 5 years to 3 years, and to limit how much drug companies can charge a pill for a months worth of medication.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that styrofoam can be "reasonably anticipated" to be carcinogenic.

mandatory vaccines in NJ

Yes. My religious affiliation Seven Days Adventist does not permit blood transfusion, neither are vaccination permitted. I do not support: S-1759

Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2010 Census show that Ohio 1.3 million uninsured, or 14.3 percent. Some examples of the poorer, rural counties: Athens County: 8,870 uninsured, or 17.9 percent uninsured; Hocking County: 3,790 uninsured, or 15.4 percent uninsured; and Meigs County: 3,384 uninsured, or 16.9 percent uninsured. The Urban Institute, a think tank that carries out economic and social-policy research, estimates that 57 percent of Ohio's uninsured non-elderly adults will remain uninsured if Ohio does not implement the ACA's Medicaid expansion.

We need a national program to study severe mental illness and find treatments and prevention. So many times lately we hear of young men who's lives have come apart and they have killed dozens of people. Something happens to these apparently normal people that cause them to become terrorists. It is not politics. They seem to have become deranged for no good reason. We need study to help prevent these tragedies and save lives.

S.C. Governor Nikki Haley is attempting to gather support to reject Medicaid Expansion dollars provided under the Affordable Care Act.

This petition is about my right to use the medicine of my choice for my I.B.S. with C and diverticlitus.