Tomorrow, May 1 at 12 noon is the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing re: the pending Melanie Blocker-Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act (HR 20) - To be held in room 2123, the Rayburn Building on Capitol Hill.

Today, April 30, is your LAST CHANCE to contact the offices of the members of this subcommittee and let them know how important it is to the women, children, and families of this country that they move the bill forward!

The panel at tomorrow's hearing includes Catherine Roca - chief, Women's Programs, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health; Nada Stotland - professor of psychiatry and obstetrics/gynecology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, representing the American Psychiatric Association; Mary Jo Codey - former first lady, State of New Jersey; Carol Blocker - mother of Melanie Blocker-Stokes; Priscilla Coleman - associate professor of human development and family studies, Bowling Green State University; and Michaelene Fredenburg - president, Life Perspectives.

For more on the bill's namesake, click here.