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Painting and Animating to Raise Migraine Awareness

June 8, 2022
Kate Baldus
Advocacy, Migraine

“I suffered from this disease for so long that it robbed me from so much enjoyment in life, but I am enjoying it in this other way — defeating the disease, raising awareness, enjoying my paintings, and showing to others what we see and what we suffer through migraine.”

We Should Be Doing Everything We Can to Help Patients to Access Their Medications: A GHLF Advocate Testifies

“I advocate for laws like this because we should be doing everything we can to make it easier for patients to access the medications that work for them, and copay assistance and this legislation do just that,” says Corey.

When Health and Faith Conflict: Migraine and Ramadan

“I would remind any Muslim living with migraine (or any other chronic illness) that we are compelled to protect our health and well-being," says migraine patient advocate Qasim Amin Nathari.

How Sneha Dave Is Creating a Space for Young Chronic Illness Patients to Connect and ‘Find Resources to Thrive’

November 5, 2021
Rachel Ellis
Advocacy

Migraine may be more common among people with the skin condition rosacea than those without the skin condition.

Public Comments

April 23, 2021
GHLF STAFF
Advocacy

Public Comments GHLF communicates regularly with policymakers at the federal and state level. We submit commits on behalf of GHLF and also sign on with other organizations to communicate our support or opposition to existing policy and to proposed policies.…