NIH, please create a new RFA for ME/CFS

September 2, 2015

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#MEAction

A group of scientists from around the country have quite recently pointed out the obvious: that ME/CFS is massively underfunded. Tell the NIH to get with the program and
1. stop refusing grants to qualified researchers
2. stop lying about refusing grants to qualified researchers
3. give ME/CFS a rightful home in the neurological disease department

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