UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Applauds draft fiscal year 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) Appropriations Bill

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 14, 2018 – The House Appropriations Committee has released its draft fiscal year 2019 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS) funding bill that includes an additional $401 million for Alzheimer’s disease research. UsAgainstAlzheimer’s and our networks of advocates applaud the House Appropriations Committee for approving this important funding increase.

“On behalf of all those touched by Alzheimer’s, we thank the Committee including Representatives Tom Cole (R-OK) and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) for their strong bipartisan work to secure critical funding to advance Alzheimer’s research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH),” said Drew Holzapfel, UsAgainstAlzheimer’s president. “We urge Congress to pass this increase into law in the coming months.”

If approved, federal investment in Alzheimer’s research funding would reach $2.25 billion, a nearly five-fold increase in the past seven years, one of UsAgainstAlzheimer’s top priorities. Even with this strong commitment greater investment is still needed if we are to accelerate a cure for the more nearly six million Americans living with this disease and their more than 16 million caregivers.