Make your voice heard!
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) has initiated a strategic planning process to set the institute’s scientific direction through 2017.
The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) has submitted a research idea, which was developed with the assistance of Noel Rose, MD, PhD, Director of the Autoimmune Disease Research Center at Johns Hopkins and Stanley Finger, Chairman of AARDA’s Board of Directors. Dr. Rose is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Graves’ Disease Foundation.
The proposal notes that various chemicals and non-chemicals – such as foods, medicines, pollutants, and hazardous chemicals – can potentially contribute to the development of autoimmune disease by turning specific genes “on” or “off”. AARDA is recommending that the NIEHS fund research into this interaction between environmental factors and disease.
You can show the NIEHS that you support this idea by voting at: http://strategicplan.niehs.nih.gov/a/dt … 8890-12617
Unfortunately, the registration process isn’t super user-friendly. The link is in the top right-hand corner of the page, and then you have to wait to receive an “activation” e-mail. But with autoimmune disease becoming increasingly more common, this is definitely a critical issue that needs attention!
For those who are on Facebook, you can also share this link by visting the Graves’ Disease Foundation’s page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Graves-Di … 2413847565
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