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American Association for Respiratory Care
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Since 1947, the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) has been committed to enhancing your professionalism as a respiratory care practitioner, improving your performance on the job, and helping you broaden the scope of knowledge essential to your success.
book: Honest Medicine by Julia Schopick
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HONEST MEDICINE introduces four lifesaving treatments that have been effectively treating--and in some cases curing--people for 25-90 years.
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Book: Your Medical Mind by Dr. Jerome Groopman that focuses on patient decision making
Cells That Heal Us From Cradle To Grave: A Quantum Leap in Medical Science
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book on stem cell research
CHOIR Stars for the Creative and Performing Arts
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C.H.O.I.R. Stars for the Creative and Performing Arts® is a non-profit organization committed to providing hope and inspiration through the creative and performing arts to teens and young adults with a variety of health conditions. Our organization holds weekend arts workshops throughout the year for teens and young adults with chronic health conditions and their siblings, and offers additional programming such as our multiple free family arts outings a year. In addition, we provide arts outreach to youth in hospitals, and provide awareness for the health conditions our C.H.O.I.R. families are facing.
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The COPD Patients Leadership Council, comprised of leaders of support groups of all levels, is designed to provide a forum for the leadership of ALL COPD support groups to work together for the benefit of the COPD patient. The Council is set up to recognize that each group has it's specific place, be it educational, political, advocacy, support or rehabilitation.
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Non profit focused on COPD.
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International support network.
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A resource for disabling conditions that can be considered severe enough by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to qualify a person for Social Security disability benefits.
These conditions can interfere with an individual’s ability to achieve gainful employment, thereby making that person eligible for SSDI or SSI benefits.
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As well as providing a very vital support, through a joint email discussion list and educational resource for its members, we are also working to educate and inform patients and care providers as well as promote deeper research for more effective treatment and hopefully a cure for Emphysema and other Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Be an activist in managing your own disease and join our EFFORTS to help promote vital medical research and education. If we don't do this, who will?
Fear Not [book on surviving kidney cancer]
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This father and son team up to tell a story of faith and healing. This devotional styled book also offers personal, practical, and biblical insights that sustained these men during a struggle for health and faith. "God had a purpose for keeping me here."
The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) works with health care professionals and public health officials to raise awareness of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and to improve prevention and treatment of this lung disease for patients around the world.
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Joey's Song is a series of CD's that brings together national and international artists to raise money for epilepsy research and advocacy, in honor of Joey Gomoll. Joey was just shy of 5 years old when he passed away in March 2010. In the months since then his father, and a passionate group of musicians, friends and supporters, have pulled together a collection of rare and unreleased music, as well as special recordings and children's songs. Joey's Song: Volume One and Joey's Song for Kids: Volume 1 were released January 25, 2011! Get your copies today!
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Resources to support spiritual well-being for those with chronic illness. Scholarly articles on the inter-relationship between spirituality and medicine. My personal struggles living with an incurable metastatic cancer.
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Magazine sponsored by the COPD foundation.
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National Emphysema Foundation aims to improve the quality of life of patients with emphysema, chronic obstructive lung disease, asthma and related lung diseases with information and education. National Emphysema Foundation supports research and works with many physicians, nurses and respiratory therapists who are involved in direct patient care.
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NECA is dedicated to making patient-centered care for COPD Patients a reality by mobilizing and facilitating participation of health care professionals as well as COPD patients and families in all aspects of the National Emphysema/COPD Association
Partnership for Prescription Assistance
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Site that help people who are uninsured get treatment.
Their services are free.
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Patient Services, Inc. (PSI) is the "ground breaking" 501(c)(3) non-profit, charitable organization of its kind. Two decades ago, we recognized the importance of providing a “safety net” for patients with chronic illnesses who were struggling to keep up with expensive premiums and co-payments. Since 1989 we have led the charge to provide much needed patient assistance, soliciting donations to fund thousands of patients and their families in a myriad of disease areas.
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Caring for Caregivers
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RockScar Love is inspiring passionate lives through clothing. We celebrate sexy scars, the lessons they teach us and the strength they create.
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Pfizer drug for COPD.
Together Mom and Son Become Smoke Free
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This year, Tina Moyer and her son Rob were able to celebrate one year of being smoke-free, an accomplishment they wouldn’t have been able to achieve without each other.
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