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Burgess reintroduces bill to fund AD research

April 20, 2013 12:20 AM UTC

Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) reintroduced the Making Investments Now for Dementia (MIND) Act, which would authorize the treasury to issue bonds to fund Alzheimer's disease research at NIH. The bill (H.R. 1619) was referred to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committee. Burgess had introduced the bill in 2011, but it was never voted out of subcommittee. ...