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For Immediate Release
Contact: Call for Major Offensive on Alzheimer’s on Capitol Hill
Football Greats Rams
Coach Mike Martz 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 1, Room 216 Hart Senate Office Building Owens and Martz Available for Interviews, Call Contact to Arrange Washington, DC---- Two of the National Football League’s greatest proponents of a high powered offense will call upon Congress to help score a major victory against Alzheimer’s by employing the same type of aggressive offensive strategy on the disease that has helped them win on the field. San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Terrell Owens, whose grandmother is living with Alzheimer’s, and St. Louis Rams coach Mike Martz, whose late mother had Alzheimer’s, headline a group of experts and people living with Alzheimer’s who will testify before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 1 in Room 216 Hart Senate Office Building. "I have seen first hand how devastating this disease can be and we need to do everything possible to find a cure and keep people and families from suffering through something so painful," said Owens. "We are urging Congress and the President to increase Alzheimer research funding to $1 billion a year so that we improve our chances of finding a cure." Current funding levels at the National Institute of Health are approximately $650 million.” “Before my mother was affected, I did not understand Alzheimer’s,” said coach Martz. “I am here to tell you that both the financial impact and the emotional impact are devastating for the patients and their families. I surely was not prepared for the emotional impact – watching my own mother lose her mind and her dignity. As of now, there is no hope for patients or their families. We MUST find a way to stop Alzheimer’s.”
9:30 a.m.
Congressional Hearing on Alzheimer’s Disease |