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Disease-Specific Sites

  • Alzheimer’s/Dementia

Alzheimer's Association

Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center

Alzheimer's Foundation of America

  • Arthritis

Arthritis Foundation

Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center

National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

  • Cancer

American Cancer Society or call 1-800-227-2345

CancerCare provides free, professional support for anyone affected by cancer. Call 1-800-813-HOPE (4663).

Cancer Support Community supports cancer caregivers, with chapters in fifty communities around the country.

Cancer.net

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Help for Cancer Caregivers

National Cancer Institute (NCI) at the National Institutes of Health 

National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship

  • Diabetes

American Diabetes Association

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's diabetes division known as the Division of Diabetes Translation

International Diabetes Federation

Diabetes Research Foundation

National Diabetes Education Program

  • Heart Disease/Stroke

American Heart Association

American Stroke Association

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Institutes of Health

The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease

US National Library of Medicine

  • Kidney

American Kidney Fund

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Kidney Disease Education Program

National Kidney Foundation

  • ALS/Lou Gehrig’s Disease

ALS Hope Foundation

The ALS Association

The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins

  • Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple Sclerosis Association of America

Multiple Sclerosis Foundation

National Multiple Sclerosis Society

  • Traumatic Brain Injury

         Brain Injury Association of America

         BrainLineMilitary.org

         Brain Trauma Foundation

         Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

National Center for PTSD

National Institute of Mental Health

US Department of Veteran Affairs

  • Parkinson’s disease

American Parkinson Disease Association

Davis Phinney Foundation for Parkinson's

National Institutes of Health

National Parkinson Foundation

Parkinson's Disease Foundation

The Michael J. Fox Foundation

  • Rare Diseases

Rare Caregivers

National Organization for Rare Disorders

Orphanet

Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network

  • Searches for information on other conditions:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Institutes of Health

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