[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 36 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 36


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 5, 2002

Received and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and 
                                Pensions

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
    Urging increased Federal funding for juvenile (type 1) diabetes 
                               research.

Whereas over one million Americans suffer from juvenile (type 1) diabetes, a 
        chronic, genetically determined, debilitating disease affecting every 
        organ system;
Whereas 13,000 children a year--35 each day--are diagnosed with juvenile 
        diabetes;
Whereas 17,000 adults a year--46 each day--are diagnosed with juvenile diabetes;
Whereas juvenile diabetes is one of the most costly chronic diseases of 
        childhood;
Whereas insulin treats but does not cure this potentially deadly disease and 
        does not prevent the complications of diabetes, which include blindness, 
        heart attack, kidney failure, stroke, nerve damage, and amputations; and
Whereas the Diabetes Research Working Group, a nonpartisan advisory board 
        established to advise Congress, has called for an accelerated and 
        expanded diabetes research program at the National Institutes of Health 
        and has recommended an increase in Federal funding for diabetes research 
        at the National Institutes of Health over each of the next five years: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That Federal funding for diabetes research should be increased annually 
as recommended by the Diabetes Research Working Group so that a cure 
for juvenile diabetes can be found.

            Passed the House of Representatives June 4, 2002.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.