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Article: Coalition pushes funding to cure aging diseases on par with AIDS, cancer. (Project Independence for Older Americans)
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- February 23, 1989
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COALITION PUSHES FUNDING TO CURE AGING DISEASES
ON PAR WITH AIDS, CANCER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- A coalition of 20 of the nation's most prominent health and aging organizations, a bipartisan group of members of Congress and a former Cabinet secretary joined today to push for a major federal research effort to find cures and preventions to the afflictions of old age.
"Today I am announcing a new effort -- Project Independence for Older Americans -- to secure a healthy, independent existence for the nation's elderly," said Joseph A. Califano Jr., former Health, Education and Welfare secretary and spokesman for the ...