Our Favorite Resources! Associations, Foundations, and More!

This is a list we put together with some of our favorite organizations. If you have one you would like added, leave a comment below and we will update the list soon.

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• Advocacy for Neuroacanthocytosis Patients http://www.naadvocacy.org/
• Advocacy for Patients with Chronic Illness, Inc http://www.advocacyforpatients.org/
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality www.ahrq.gov
• Alliance of State Pain Initiatives http://www.aspi.wisc.edu
• American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine http://www.aahpm.org
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons http://www.aaos.org
• American Academy of Pain Management http://www.aapainmanage.org
• American Academy of Pain Medicine http://www.painmed.org
• American Arthritis Society http://www.americanarthritis.org
• American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association http://AARDA.org
• American Behcet’s Disease Association http://behcets.com
• American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
• American Celiac Society http://www.williamshaffer.org/acs/about.htm
• American Chronic Pain Association http://www.theacpa.org
• American College of Physicians http://www.acofp.org
• American College of Rheumatology http://www.rheumatology.org
• American Diabetes Association http://www.diabetes.org
• American Fibromyalgia Syndrome Association http://www.afsafund.org
• American Geriatrics Society http://www.americangeriatricssociety.org
• American Headache Society http://americanheadachesociety.org
• American Lyme Disease Foundation http://www.aldf.com
• American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org
• American Osteopathic Association http://www.do-online.org
• American Pain Foundation http://www.painfoundation.org
• American Pain Society http://www.ampainsoc.org
• American Porphyria Foundation www.porphyriafoundation.com
• American Society of Anesthesiologists http://www.asahq.org
• American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians http://www.asipp.org
• American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics http://www.aslme.org
• American Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation http://www.aapmr.org
• American Society of Regional Pain Management http://www.asra.com
• Amputee Coalition of America http://www.amputee-coalition.org
• APS Foundation of America, Inc. http://www.apsfa.org
• Arthritis Foundation http://www.arthritis.org
• Association of Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders, Inc.http://www.agmd-gimotility.org/
• Association of Oncology Social Work http://www.aosw.org
• Autoimmune Information Network http://www.aininc.org
• BAMS http://www.bandagainstms.org
• Band Against MS-Clay Walker http://www.bandagainstms.org
• Band-Aids and Blackboards http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/faculty/jfleitas/bandaides/
• Beyond Chronic Pain http://www.beyondchronicpain.com
• Board Certified.com directory of those board certified physicians who wish to present an elevated Internet presence to the patient community http://Board Certified.com
• Bridge Medical http://mederrors.com
• But You Don’t Look Sick http://butyoudontlooksick.com
• Caring Bridge http://caringbridge.org
• C-Cange (cancer focus) http://www.c-changetogether.org
• CFIDs Association of American http://www.cfids.org/
• Celiac Sprue Association http://csaceliacs.org
• Centers for Disease Control and Preventionhttp://www.cdc.gov
• Center for Medical Consumers www.medicalconsumers.org
• Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation www.ccfa.org
• Chron’s Adventure http://CrohnsAdventures.org
• ChronicBabe http://chronicababe.com
• Citizens for Patient Safety http://citizensforpatientsafety.org/
• Compassionate Friends – coping with death of child http://compassionatefriends.org
• Conquering Chiari http://www.conquerchiari.org
• ConsumerLab http://ConsumerLab.com
• Consumer Health Information Corporationwww.consumer-health.com
• Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) www.patientsafety.org
• Empowered Patient Coalition http://empoweredpatientcoalition.org
• Diabetic Mommy http://www.diabeticmommy.com
• DiagKNOWsis http://www.diagknowsis.org/
• Digestive Disease National Coalition http://www.ddnc.org
• Disabled American Veterans http://www.dav.org
• Dysautonomia Foundation http://www.familialdysautonomia.org
• Dysautonomia Information Network http://www.dinet.org
• Dystonia Medical Research Foundation http://www.dystonia-foundation.org
  
• Ehler-Danlos National Foundation (connective tissue disorder) http://www.ednf.org
• Ehlers Danlos/Hypermobility Syndrome http://teens.hypermobility.org
• Every Patient’s Advocate – Trisha Torrey http://healthcarespeaker.org/
• Facial Pain Association http://fpa-support.org
• Fibromyalgia http://www.fmaware.org
• For Grace http://www.forgrace.org – Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
• Healing Well http://healingwell.com
• Health & Disability Advocates http://hdadvocates.org
• Health Grades http://www.healthgrades.com
• Hereditary Neuropathy with liability to Pressure Palsies http://www.hnpp.org
• Hospice Patients Alliancehttp://hospicepatients.org
• Hospice Foundation of America http://www.hospicefoundation.org
• IDEAS Kids – Intestinal Diseases http://ideaskids.com
• IDF: Immune Deficiency Foundation, www.primaryimmune.org
• IG Living Magazine – Immune Gobulin http://www.igliving.com
• Institute for Safe Medication Practices http://www.ismp.org/
• Intracranial Hypertension Research Foundation http://www.ihrfoundation.org
• Intercultural Cancer Council http://www.iccnetowork.org
• International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care http://www.hospicecare.com
• International Association for the Study of Pain http://www.iasp-pain.org
• International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (IBS) http://www.aboutibs.org
• International Stills Disease Foundation http://stillsdisease.org
• InvisABLE Illness http://www.invisableillness.com/
• Invisible Disabilities Association http://ida.org
• Joni and Friends http://joniandfriends.org
• Lance Armstrong Foundation http://www.livestrong.org
• Life Without Limbs http://lifewithoutlimbs.org
• Lung Cancer Alliance http://www.lungcanceralliance.org
• Lung Transplant Foundation http://lungtransplantfoundation.org
• Lupus Foundation of America, Inc. http://www.lupus.org
• Magic Foundation www.magicfoundation.org
• Maryland Pain Initiative http://www.marylandpaininitiative.org
• Mayo Clinoic http://www.mayoclinic.com
• Mastocytosis Society http://www.tmsforacure.org/
• Medically Induced Trauma Support Services (MITSS) www.mitss.org
• Medicarehttp://www.medicare.gov/
• Medline Plus Health Informationhttp://medlineplus.gov/
• Medscape http://www.medscape.com/home
• Medwatch – the FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/index.html
• Mental Health Ministries www.MentalHealthMinistries.net.
• Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America http://www.myasthenia.org
• Mastocytosis Society www.tmsforacure.org
• National Alliance for Mental Illness http://nami.org
• National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship http://www.canceradvocacy.org
• National Comprehensive Cancer Network http://www.nccn.org
• National Family Caregivers Association http://www.nfcacares.org
• National Fibromyalgia Association http://www.fmaware.org
• National Headache Association http://www.headaches.org
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization http://www.nhpco.org
• National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/topics/lymeDisease
• National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases (NIAMD) http://www.niams.nih.gov
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)http://health.nih.gov/
• National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week http://InvisibleIllnessWeek.com
• National Kidney Foundation http://www.kidney.org
• National Multiple Sclerosis Society http://www.nationalmssociety.org
• National Necrotizing Fasciitis Foundation http://www.nnff.org
• National Organization for Rare Disorders http://www.rarediseases.org
• National Ovarian Cancer Coalition http://www.ovarian.org
• National Pain Foundation http://www.nationalpainfoundation.org
• National Patient Advocate Foundation http://www.npaf.org
• National Prostate Cancer Coalition http://www.fightprostatecancer.org
• National Stroke Association http://www.stroke.org
• National Vulvodynia Association http://www.nva.org
• National Women’s Health Resource Center http://www.healthywomen.org
• Pain.com-for professionals and patients http://www.pain.com
• PainPathways.org http://www.painpathways.org
• Pain Relief Network http://painreliefnetwork.org
• PAINWeek http://www.painweek.org/
• Pancreatic Cancer Action Network http://www.pancan.org
• Partners Against Pain http://www.partnersagainstpain.com
• Patient Advocate Foundation http://www.patientadvocate.org
• Patients Like Me http://patientslikeme.com
• Pharmacy Checker http://PharmacyChecker.com
• Power of Pain Foundation http://www.powerofpain.org
• Power Over Your Pain http://www.poweroveryourpain.com
• Prevent Cancer Council http://www.preventcancer.org
• PSC Partners Seeking a Cure http://www.pscpartners.org/
• QuackWatch http://www.quackwatch.org
• Race Against Pain http://www.RaceAgainstPain.com
• Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association http://www.rsds.org
• Rest Ministries Chronic Illness Pain Support http://restministries.com
• Saracoma Foundation of America http://www.curesarcoma.org
• Sceptor Pain Foundation http://www.sceptor.org
• Scleroderma Foundation http://www.scleroderma.org/
• Sickel Cell Disease http://www.sicklecelldisease.org
• Spondylitis Association of America http://www.spondylitis.org/
• Susan G. Komen for the Cure http://www.komen.org
• Texas Pain Society http://texaspain.org
• The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org
• The National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain http://www.paincare.org
• The National Migraine Association http://www.migranes.org
• The National Pain Foundation http://www.nationalpainfoundation.org
• The Prostate Net http://www.prostate-online.org
• United Spinal Association http://www.unitedspinal.org/
• United States Bone and Joint Decade http://www.usbjd.org
• Voice 4 Patients information and resources for those who have been victimized by healthcare error http://www.voice4patients.com/
• WEGO Health Activists http://community.wegohealth.com/
• Wilson’s Disease Association http://www.wilsonsdisease.org/
• World Institute of Pain http://www.worldinstituteofpain.org

INTERNATIONAL________________

• Asociacion Argentina para el Estudio del Dolor http://www.aaedolor.org.ar
• Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Dolore http://www.aisd.it
• Australian Pain Society http://www.apsoc.org.au/interest.html
• British Pain Society http://www.britishpainsociety.org/
• Canadian Pain Society http://www.canadianpaincoalition.ca
• Egyptian Pain Society http://www.egyptianpainsociety.org
• European Federation of IASP Chapters http://www.efic.org
• Turkish Society of Algology http://www.algoloji.org.tr

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