RESOURCES

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Cassette tapes and program booklets from our conference "Fibromyalgia – More Questions Answered ~ 2003" are now available for purchase. These items would be a good resource, especially for support group leaders. If you order the program book with the cassettes, you can follow in the book right along with the presentations. For your convenience, you can use the order form at the bottom to mail in with your purchase. Please allow 4-6 weeks for delivery.

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The American College of Rheumatology,
Annual Scientific Meeting

What is the American College of Rheumatology Conference?

The ACR and the ARHP (a division of the ACR), are organizations of physicians, health professionals and scientists that come together to discuss the latest advances in research and patient care. The ACR and ARHP annual scientific meetings are the world’s most comprehensive meetings in rheumatology. Selected members conduct in-depth presentations of the recent improvements in the diagnosis, management and treatment of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases. The week long event is packed full of lectures, meetings, workshops and poster sessions, providing an opportunity for colleagues to interact in group sessions or one-on-one discussions.

Thousands of professionals come from all over the world to attend the ACR conference. Meeting rooms and exhibit halls take over the massive convention center and hotel, and people zoom around, in and out of meetings that cover every rheumatologic topic there is. We are beginning to see more sessions dedicated to fibromyalgia, with the world’s finest scientists and researchers in rheumatology reporting on progress made and sharing information. I imagine that the ACR meetings held 10-15 years ago hardly had a mention of fibromyalgia on their agenda. Thanks to hard working researchers that is slowly changing and fibromyalgia is beginning to get more recognition for the disabling illness that it is. The physicians attending ACR conferences are generally interested in educating themselves and others about fibromyalgia, to better help the suffering fibromyalgia population.

READ VOLUME 4 OF THE FIBROMYALGIA FOCUS FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE 64th ANNUAL ACR MEETING HELD IN 2000. Topics covered include:

• Potential Mechanisms in Fibromyalgia
• Abstracts and Poster Sessions
• Risk Factors for Developing Fibromyalgia
• State of the Art Lecture: Fibromyalgia Advances in Understanding and Improvements in Management – Given by Daniel Clauw, MD

WHY DONATE TO AFFTER?

All funds raised go directly to our mission, which is to improve fibromyalgia funding, treatment, education and research. A donation to AFFTER would make you eligible to receive the Fibromyalgia Focus Newsletter, the official voice of AFFTER. This professional newsletter is sixteen pages long and includes helpful and accurate information about FMS, as well as updates on organizational activities. You will also be eligible to receive discounts on AFFTER events, educational activities and resources.

You do not have to have fibromyalgia in order to donate to AFFTER. Perhaps you know someone who has fibromyalgia and want to help them somehow. Why not make a contribution to AFFTER? You can be sure that 100% of your money would go towards helping people with this life altering, painful illness. If you decide to contribute in honor of a friend or family member, we will inform that person that you have donated to their cause.

Click here to print out a Donation Form or use the PayPal Button to the left.
* You do not need a PayPal account to Donate to AFFTER, All donations are 100% tax deductible.