Rachel Warner Scholarship Program
COTT regrets to announce that the Rachel Warner Scholarship program will not be available for 2012. We apologize for any inconvenience this may create, and look forward to re-instating the program as soon as possible in future years.
Keep COTT Alive!
From the beginning, COTT’s guiding philosophy has been, Action=Life. The perspective is ongoing as COTT moves into its third decade as a grass-roots advocacy, support and policy organization serving the hemophilia and larger bleeding disorders communities. We are one of the few community advocacy organizations who do not accept support of any kind from the manufacturers of blood products, drugs or medical devices. This prohibition reflects our belief that conflict of interest played a key role in the AIDS/Blood epidemic that devastated the hemophilia community in the 1980s.
Blood Products Advisory Committee
COTT was pleased to learn that Corey Dubin, President and Board Chair of COTT, has been appointed again to the consumer representative seat on the FDA’s Blood Products Advisory Committee (BPAC). Corey was originally appointed to a term on the committee in 1995, just after the Institute of Medicine’s report HIV and the Blood Supply: An Analysis of Crisis Decisionmaking — calling for increased consumer voice on committees such as this one.
Washington Update, Congress and the Leadership
The basic groundwork: Republicans succeeded in taking the majority of seats in the House; the Senate will remain in Democratic hands next year, but by a much narrower count than currently. A single defection, or serious illness or death, or a combination, can change things drastically. Continue Reading
