[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5664]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         LUPUS AWARENESS MONTH

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize May as Lupus 
Awareness Month.
  According to the Lupus Foundation of America, as many as 2 million 
Americans, including my lovely stepdaughter, Katharine Lehtinen, are 
living with lupus, and another 16,000 new cases are reported across our 
Nation each year; but new research and collaborative projects offer 
hope that we are getting closer to safer and more effective treatments.
  The Lupus Research Institute, in particular, has funded over 150 
Novel Research Grants. These funds are aimed at forging scientific 
breakthroughs to better understand the disease and to help patients who 
are living with lupus. Because of the advancing science, 2016 may very 
well mark a new and exciting year in the long fight against this 
mysterious autoimmune disease.
  Mr. Speaker, as this poster reads, ``For a future with no lupus, we 
must know lupus.''

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