Endocrine Insider
June 14, 2007

The Endocrine Society has partnered with Research!America and the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation on Your Congress-Your Health, a new initiative creating a dialogue on health and research between Congress and the public. A goal of the Your Congress– Your Health initiative is to provide a database that outlines the positions of individual members of Congress on research policy issues and, over time, align members’ voting records with this information. PARADE magazine launched the initiative in its March 11 issue, asking readers what they would like to ask Congress about health and research issues. The response was overwhelming, and the article received more online comments than any PARADE story to date. This feedback shaped a questionnaire recently sent to all members of Congress to learn about their positions on a range of health related topics.

The Society encourages you to write to your members of Congress and ask them to respond to the Your Congress-Your Health questionnaire so that you may track where they stand on medical research and other health-related issues. A sample letter is available on the Research!America website through the following link.

http://capwiz.com/ram/issues/alert/?alertid=9425906

Visit www.yourcongressyourhealth.org now to see what questions are being asked of members of Congress, and return in June to see how they respond.