Lawmakers Named 'Health Care Advocates of the Year' by Psoriasis Patient Group

U.S. Newswire, January, 2008

To: CITY EDITORS

Contact: Michael Paranzino of Psoriasis Cure Now, 1-301-571- 2393, michael@psoriasis-cure-now.org

KENSINGTON, Md., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "Psoriasis Cure Now," a nonprofit patient advocacy group, today named Congressman David Wu of Oregon and Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey as its "Health Care Advocates of the Year" for 2007.

The lawmakers introduced the Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Research, Cure, and Care Act of 2007 in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. The bills would, among other things, "expand and intensify research" on psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Psoriasis research funding has lagged at NIH even as biomedical research on other diseases has...

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