[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 383 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 383

  Commending the NephCure Foundation for its sponsorship of National 
  Kidney Cure Week and encouraging the Secretary of Health and Human 
 Services to make more information available to the public concerning 
                            kidney diseases.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 18, 2002

  Ms. Rivers submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Commending the NephCure Foundation for its sponsorship of National 
  Kidney Cure Week and encouraging the Secretary of Health and Human 
 Services to make more information available to the public concerning 
                            kidney diseases.

Whereas the Surgeon General designated kidney diseases as one of the focus areas 
        of the Healthy People 2010 campaign;
Whereas 2,500,000 people in the United States suffer from kidney diseases and of 
        that number approximately 398,000 are afflicted with End Stage Renal 
        Disease, 90 percent of which is caused by glomerular diseases;
Whereas glomerular diseases of the kidney cause 360,000 people in the United 
        States to rely on dialysis for life and that number is expected to 
        escalate to 660,000 people by the year 2010;
Whereas countless more people in the United States live with the early effects 
        of glomerular diseases and too many cases are undiagnosed or 
        misdiagnosed;
Whereas there is not yet a cure for glomerular diseases, but there are 
        treatments available when quickly and accurately diagnosed;
Whereas glomerular diseases cost the United States $15,000,000,000 in direct 
        public health expenditures per year;
Whereas people of color are disproportionately affected by glomerular diseases;
Whereas greater resources should be directed to researching the causes of 
        glomerular diseases and to finding a cure; and
Whereas the NephCure Foundation, with national headquarters in Ann Arbor, 
        Michigan, a foundation which combats kidney diseases, will sponsor a 
        National Kidney Cure Week the first week of October in order to further 
        educate health care providers and the public about glomerular diseases: 
        Now, therefore, be it

    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That the Congress--
            (1) commends the NephCure Foundation for its sponsorship of 
        National Kidney Cure Week; and
            (2) encourages the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
        to--
                    (A) make more information available to the public 
                concerning glomerular diseases and the developments 
                made by researchers into the causes of glomerular 
                diseases; and
                    (B) present public service announcements on kidney 
                disease prevention and diagnosis.
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