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• - A voluntary, non-profit organization dedicated to creating awareness and providing support for families affected by Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB). Includes articles, news, and information about this genetic disorder.
  
• - Education and support, providing information on thousands of rare disorders and advocating for funding and research. Offers news, membership and contact details.
  
• - MDAC is a national voluntary agency committed to eliminating neuromuscular disorders and alleviating the associated distress.
  
• - Canadian organization open to Canadian researchers from any discipline interested in cancer etiology.
  
• - A forum which provides support for persons affected by Dandy-Walker Syndrome.
  
• - Details on this not for profit, charitable organization that raises money through corporate sponsorships, public donations, and planned gifts to help find the cause and a cure for this disease.
  
• - Non-profit charitable organization that provides support services for individuals with TS and their families. Provides up-to-date medical information to families, physicians and the general public.
  
• - Provides information about the disease, progress in MS research, available services, details about fund raising events and donation opportunities.
  
• - Provides information about the disease and links to other web sites dealing with this mental illness.
  
• - Details about this non-profit organization dealing with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. Includes a downloadable newsletter, information roster, and discusses active projects.
  
• - Provides advocacy and promotes public awareness concerning persons who are deaf-blind. Offers background information, resources, recent activities and links to local organizations.
  
• - A coalition of organizations creating national priorities for controlling cancer. Discusses strategies and includes information about its partnerships, priorities, publications and resources.
  
• - Pfizer Canada's source for information on the signs and symptoms of the disease plus diagnosis and treatment options. Lists treatment, support and resources.
  
• - Includes the Arthritis Society, the Canadian Rheumatology Association, the Canadian Arthritis Network, arthritis health care providers and the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group.
  
• - NACPAC is a national self-help organization dedicated to providing support to people in chronic pain, and to giving them assistance in living their lives to the fullest.
  
• - Dedicated to improving the quality of life for all persons with hemophilia and other inherited bleeding disorders, as well as ensuring the safety of the blood supply for all Canadians.
  
• - Novartis Pharmaceuticals Canada offers sufferers the opportunity to discuss common uncomfortable stomach symptoms (abdominal pain, bloating and constipation) with their doctor.
  
• - Part of Health Canada's Population and Public Health Branch, providing strategic leadership in the development and implementation of integrated chronic disease prevention and control strategies.
  
• - A non-profit cancer resource and support organization. Provides survival and preventative techniques and offers cancer survival kits.
  
• - A support group for families with children with Down Syndrome.
  
• - Organizes therapeutic expeditions for teenagers living with cancer, to share adventures and challenges with people who share the same realities. Includes information for contributors and past expeditions.
  
• - Funds investigation of the most common inherited form of mental impairment and developmental disability, and provides newsletters and discussion groups, invites applications for research grants, and explains how to donate or join.
  
• - To promote the health of Canadians through diabetes research, education, service, and advocacy.
  
• - Novartis Pharmaceuticals resource for patients and caregivers to assess risks, diagnosis, treatment options, facts, and prevention.
  
• - Charitable organization raising money for research and education into conditions affecting the lymphatic system.
  
• - Updated SARS case tracker, with background information on the disease.
  
• - A national self-help consumer organization of persons who are blind, deaf-blind and visually impaired. Offers text or graphics and text, resources, local chapters, programmes and links.
  
• - Promotes support and dialogue among home parenteral-enteral nutrition consumers, their families, and HPEN healthcare and industry professionals. Includes links to HPEN-related resources such as disease-specific conditions.
  
• - Site provides information, news and support resources about Colorectal cancer, the third most common form of cancer in Canada after lung and breast cancer.
  
• - An organization of approximately 125 victims of the drug thalidomide. It provides non-monetary programs, services, and advocacy for its members.
  
• - Offers background information on asthma, treatment options, and an online community
  
• - Nationwide network of services for those affected and their families. Includes mission statement, history, policy statements, articles, forum, and information about care, treatment, and research.
  
• - A resource maintained by parents of kids with eczema. Information about treatment for patients, families and their doctors.
  
• - GlaxoSmithKline Inc. provides general asthma information, and an ashtma symptom checklist to initiate dialogue with a physician. A tracker and action plan are available in a .pdf format.
  
• - The society promotes research, conducts advocacy, provides information and referral, and is developing professional training programs. Offers links to other resources and provincial societies.
  
• - Provides patients and families with health and lifestyle information, tips, and trends on heart disease and stroke related conditions.
  
• - Information for professionals and patients, to disseminate and implement the Canadian Asthma treatment guidelines.
  
• - Helping Canadians suffering from kidney failure and related disorders such as high blood pressure, kidney stones, diabetes and urinary tract infections
  
• - Intended to bring all the victims of colon cancer together to share ideas, feelings, hopes and resources.
  
• - Information about respiratory conditions for both patients and the general public, and information about the Lung Association.
  
• - Information and resources concerning the disease. Discusses warning signs, risk, prevention, facts and figures.
  
• - A forum for Canadian physicians to share information on the diagnosis and treatment. Sponsored by Wyeth Ayerst. Site registration is required
  
• - Information about cancer cure quackery and how to report it. Additionally contains a number of articles showing examples of this form of fraud.