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American Council for Fitness and Nutrition :
ACFN is a non-profit organization that brings together food and beverage companies, associations, and health and nutrition advocates to work toward viable long-term solutions to the nation's obesity epidemic.
American Diabetes Association :
The American Diabetes Association is the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. The mission of the Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
American Thyroid Association Home:
The ATA provides outstanding leadership in thyroidology by promoting excellence and innovation in clinical care, research, education, and public policy.
Canadian Diabetes Association:
The Canadian Diabetes Association's Web site is an online resource for people with, and affected by, diabetes and for healthcare professionals treating those affected by the disease.
CARES Foundation:
CARES Foundation is committed to the education and advancement of research to bring about a cure of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) while providing the resources and the latest information available in managing life with CAH.
Children With Diabetes:
The mission of Children with Diabetes is to promote understanding of the care and treatment of diabetes, especially in children; to increase awareness of the need for unrestricted diabetes care for children at school and daycare; to support families living with diabetes; and to promote understanding of research into a cure.
Cushing's Help and Support:
Cushing's Help and Support is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing support, information news and education to individuals having Cushing's Disease or Cushing's Syndrome as well as other diseases of the pituitary glands.
Cushing's Support and Research Foundation :
The Cushing’s Support and Research Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting patients with Cushing’s and their families.
Defeat Diabetes Foundation:
Defeat Diabetes Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated, first, to the prevention of diabetes.
Diabetes Insipidus Foundation :
The mission of the Diabetes Insipidus Foundation, Inc. is improved treatment, and ultimately the prevention and cure of all forms of diabetes insipidus through research.
Diabetes Monitor:
It is the mission of the DiabetesMonitor to provide information about diabetes for patients and their families, and offer useful advice about the prevention and management of diabetic complications; provide resources for patients, families, diabetes educators and other health care professionals; support people with diabetes in their pursuit of quality of life.
Hormone Foundation:
The Hormone Foundation is dedicated to serving as a resource for the public by promoting the prevention, treatment and cure of hormone-related conditions.
Human Growth Foundation:
The Human Growth Foundation helps children and adults with disorders related to growth or growth hormone through research, education, support and advocacy.
Hypoparathyroidism Association :
The Hypoparathyroidism Association, Inc. is a voluntary, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with all forms of Hypoparathyroidism, a rare medical disorder, by maintaining a worldwide network of family support, and promoting public, as well as professional, awareness of this disorder through a quarterly newsletter and our Web site.
Hystiocytosis Association of America:
An international partnership of patients, families, physicians and friends. This nonprofit organization was formed with these goals in mind to promote scientific research into the histiocytoses.
International Prader Willi Syndrome Association:
IPWSO is politically neutral, with no discrimination as to race, sex or religion. It supports member associations in their efforts to Improve the quality of life for all people with Prader-Willi syndrome and their families.
Islet Foundation:
A voluntary nonprofit grantmaker and supporter of diabetes research. Its goal is to bring together dedicated scientists who support ambitious research projects to find a cure for diabetes and stamp out insulin dependence without the use of immunosuppressive drugs.
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International :
The mission of JDRF is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through the support of research.
Little People of America:
Little People of America, Inc., is a nonprofit organization that provides support and information to people of short stature and their families.
Magic Foundation:
MAGIC is a national nonprofit organization providing support and education to families of children with a variety of growth disorders such as Russell Silver Syndrome, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Precocious Puberty, Septo-Optic Dysplasia, Turner Syndrome, McCune-Albright Syndrome, Hypophosphatasia, Rare Growth Disorders and Adult GHD.
Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus Foundation :
The NDI Foundation was formed to support education, research, treatment and cure for Nephrogenic Diabetes Insipidus. Their goal is to create a communication channel to serve the entire NDI community: patients and their families, researchers, physicians and other health care providers.
Obesity Society:
The mission of the AOA is to act as an agent of change, move society to re-conceptualize obesity as a disease and to fashion appropriate strategies to deal with the epidemic.
Pediatric Endocrinology Nursing Society:
The Pediatric Endocrinology Nursing Society (PENS) is an international voluntary nonprofit specialty nursing organization founded in 1986.
Pituitary Network Association:
PNA is an international nonprofit organization for patients with pituitary tumors and disorders, their families, loved ones, and the physicians and health care providers who treat them.
Prader-Willi Syndrome Association :
Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) is dedicated to serving individuals affected by Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS), their families, and interested professionals.
Short Persons Support:
Welcome to the Short Persons Support. Their mission is to support and provide reference material to persons of short stature; raise awareness of the social and economic issues facing short people and provide inspiration to short people to help better their lives and attitudes.
Thyroid Foundation of Canada:
The Thyroid Foundation of Canada's goals are to promote awareness and education about thyroid disease and raise funds for much needed thyroid disease research.

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