The Global Healthy Living Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission to improve the quality of life for people living with chronic illness. Learn more about us here. Below are our core Advocacies.
The 50-State Network™
- A grass roots advocacy organization working to share the patient perspective for State and Federal health policy and regulation.
CreakyJoints™
- The go-to source for more than 100,000 arthritis patients and their families seeking education, support, advocacy and patient-centered research.
Fail First Hurts™
- A grassroots effort bringing the Fail First message of poor outcomes, inefficiencies, and higher costs to patients, physicians, caregivers, and more.
Medical Conditions
On our radarWe are currently monitoring legislation and supporting patient access to care around the following chronic conditions:
Arthritis is inflammation of one or more of the joints. One of the most common causes of disability in the U.S., this disease can severely limit function and negatively impact quality of life
While commonly thought of as a really bad headache, migraine is in fact a chronic, debilitating, and often under reported neurological condition.
An inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. There are vaccines available to prevent most forms of meningitis.
Causes bone density to decrease, resulting in reduced strength and fragile bones.
Elevated cholesterol can cause build up in the arteries which can cause dire health consequences.
Trending topics
On our radarWe are actively educating legislators and regulators at the state and national level regarding the following access to care issues:
An organization with deep ties to insurance companies using their influence to limit access to life changing treatments.
Cut through the noise and learn about the status of health insurance in 2017.
Prescription medicines created from food-based, natural molecules.
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- Track your symptoms, treatments and other health data from your computer or smartphone.
- See how your symptoms are changing—or holding steady—over time. How are you responding to new medications or other changes in treatment?
- Share how you’ve been doing to help your care team and loved ones better understand your condition.
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It feels like migraine patients have been given remedies, cures and suggestions that will help them since the beginning of time. Most of the time these “tips” are things we have already tried, or simply old wives’ tales passed down from someone’s uncle’s cousin’s great-grandmother. I asked my closest migraine friends and advocates to share […]
⇀ READ MOREThe absolute number one thing we wish the world knew about migraine is that it is NOT a headache. Headache is one of several disabling symptoms of migraine, which is a serious and debilitating neurological disease affecting over almost 40 million men, women and children in the United States and over 1 billion worldwide.1 […]
⇀ READ MOREDuring flu and cold season, patients are nearly 25 percent likelier to take too much of the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen — one of whose brand names is Tylenol, and which is an ingredient in hundreds of medications — than they are the rest of the year. That’s what researchers found when they studied 14,481 patients […]
⇀ READ MOREOn Dec. 1, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the PCSK9 inhibitor evolocumab (Repatha) to prevent heart attacks and strokes. It is the first PCSK9 approved for these conditions in adults with cardiovascular disease, notes Amgen in a release. Many patients, who had already been receiving the best therapies available, remained at high risk […]
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Adults with hypertension can lower their blood pressure by consuming less sodium and sticking to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet. That’s according to preliminary data presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2017 in Anaheim. Researchers, led by Stephen Juraschek, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, studied 412 adults of varying […]
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Fail First policies, also known as Step Therapy, are insurance policies which require the cheapest drug to be prescribed to a patient first, rather than the medicine originally prescribed by the doctor. LEARN MORE
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