The AARDA Autoimmune Walk brings a national focus to autoimmune diseases; raises funds for critical research; and provides hope to 50 million sufferers.
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AARDA is the only national charity dedicated to bringing a national focus to autoimmunity, the major cause of serious chronic diseases. Approximately 50 million Americans, 20 percent of the population or one in five people, suffer from autoimmune diseases. Women are more likely than men to be affected; some estimates say that 75 percent of those affected — some 30 million people — are women. Still, with these statistics, autoimmunity is rarely discussed as a women’s health issue; and basic autoimmune research is significantly underfunded. AARDA has launched the Autoimmune Walk to change all this. When we link together, we are stronger. WHEN WE LINK TOGETHER, A CURE IS CLOSER!
Mission: Founded in 1991, the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA) is dedicated to the eradication of autoimmune diseases and the alleviation of suffering and the socioeconomic impact of autoimmunity through initiating, fostering and facilitating collaboration in the areas of education, public awareness, research and patient services in an effective, ethical and efficient manner. The Autoimmune Walk was launched in 2012 to help build awareness nationwide.
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No, COVID vaccines do not infect you with the coronavirus or change your DNA. Read on to learn about the biggest vaccine misconceptions and conspiracy theories.
Announcing AARDA Leadership Transition
We wish CEO/President Randy Rutta well as he transitions into a new role at the National Health Council. We’re incredibly grateful for Randy’s efforts to expand AARDA’s reach and impact at a critical time, and we look forward to continuing to work with him at NHC. Special thanks to AARDA Vice Chair Lilly Stairs who will serve as interim CEO.https://www.aarda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/FINAL-Press-Release-Rutta-Announcement.pdf
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*** SHOUT OUT TO ANDY BROUGH, team leader of the Salty City Sloths Running Club, who is organizing a Virtual Walk in Salt Lake City. Thanks, Andy, for all you are doing to raise awareness! Andy is an autoimmune warrior living with Hashimoto's. You can support his effort at:
http://autoimmunewalk.org/Sloth1#.X_m479hKiM8
Alliance for Patient Access
Rare disease patients need access to accurate & timely diagnoses. Raising awareness can help. https://bit.ly/2JOWb1q
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Join us on January 13 at 12 p.m. ET to discuss the past, present and future of primary biliary cholangitis (PBC)! We'll broadcast live from our page, where our featured panelists will answer questions from viewers. Make sure to RSVP now and add the event to your calendar.
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HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS! All of us at AARDA wish you a wonderful holiday season and a healthy 2021!!
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The latest release on Dr. Phillips’ popular, “Coping Conversations” podcast is a solo episode, which focuses on strategies to help people deal with the pandemic during holiday time. You can listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or any other favorite podcast app: https://bit.ly/3atelke
Get a detailed meal plan, a list of the best and worst foods to eat when you're stressed, and more to help you feel happier and calmer starting today.
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We are pleased to let you know that we have now heard from the MHRA who say that the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID vaccine IS suitable for people with #antiphospholipid syndrome (#APS).
Please read our website for full details:
http://aps-support.org.uk/self-help/covid-19-information
Want to give your smartest gift this holiday season? Consider a taxwise gift from your IRA to help us help others. It’s an easy way to make an impact on our community — and it can help you to stay in a lower tax bracket. Learn more and get started with our free tool, in 10 minutes or less: https://www.freewill.com/qcd/aarda?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=202012_aarda_facebook
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The Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease
As Americans in every state and community across the country patiently await initial vaccines for COVID-19, a light is becoming visible at the end of the tunnel, but still many questions demand answers. The Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease (PFID), working in support of broad pandemic preparedness, is convening a national conversation to raise awareness among Americans seeking trusted information prior to being vaccinated.
Please join for a 60-minute briefing to answer some of the common questions about COVID-19 vaccines and highlight perspectives from leading health care and infectious disease experts.
We invite you to submit your own question for the experts about COVID-19 vaccines - https://www.fightinfectiousdisease.org/post/vaccinating-america-against-covid-19-leading-experts-address-key-questions
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Best Fat Burning Exercises for at Home
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What makes an exercise ideal for fat burning? It’s all about the intensity level. Learn how to do it and the best moves to focus on, from plank jacks and skater jumps to burpees.
SHOUT OUT TO TEAM LEADER ASHLEY KROKOWSKI AND TEAM WALTER'S WARRIORS IN NYC for raising $1,695 for the AARDA mission in honor of Walter W. Krokowski. Despite the pandemic, this team managed to make this awesome effort this year, and plan to walk again next year! Thank you, Walter's Warriors!!! (Photo is from 2019)
American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA)
How does IBD impact your everyday life? Create a personal infographic using the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's #IBDvisible infographic generator, and help educate others about the impact Crohn's or colitis has on your life during Crohn's & Colitis Awareness Week. Create one now: https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/awarenessweek #CCAwarenessWeek
A GIFT FROM US TO YOU: to thank you for supporting AARDA in 2020, we want to give you a free resource to protect the people you love. Click below to write a legal will at no personal cost, take control of your health and safety decisions, and ensure your loved ones are always protected. Get started here: https://www.freewill.com/aarda?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=202012_aarda_facebook
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Your ankylosing spondylitis–related back pain may be worse than usual if you’ve been working from home more often. But, even without special equipment or furniture, you can make your work-from-home routine less taxing on your back.
Today is #GivingTuesday! All donations today will be matched by Facebook and double the impact of your gift!! AARDA Education Programs take the spotlight on this global day of generosity. Gifts to AARDA today will help to support aarda.org; national webinars and briefings; educational modules; publications; public forums; autoimmune disease surveys; patient toolkits; and more! Whether your gift is $5 or $500, it will help to make a positive and powerful difference for people living with autoimmune disease. Thank you!! To donate, go to: https://www.facebook.com/donate/698969684086797/4038243459537230/?fundraiser_source=feed&source_data[post_id]=4038243459537230
Countdown to #GivingTuesday! AARDA Education programs will take the spotlight on #GivingTuesday--a global day of generosity that will take place tomorrow, December 1. #GivingTuesday gifts to AARDA will help to support aarda.org; national webinars and briefings; educational modules; publications; public forums; autoimmune disease surveys; patient toolkits; and more! Whether your gift is $5 or $500, it will help to make a positive and powerful difference for people living with autoimmune disease. Thank you!! https://www.facebook.com/donate/698969684086797/4038243459537230/?fundraiser_source=feed&source_data[post_id]=4038243459537230
Staying well hydrated throughout the day is crucial for maintaining a good mood, a healthy weight, focus and concentration, and more. Follow these expert tips to know when (and how) to drink water.
International Foundation for Autoimmune & Autoinflammatory Arthritis
Remember when doctor visits weren't mostly virtual - so you didn't have to worry about when to schedule your next visit? You just did it before leaving. But what is the protocol now? Last time you did an e-visit with your doctor, did they schedule you another visit at the end? Tell you to call the office or that a staff person would contact you? What's the protocol?
We ask because it's come to our attention (as people living with these diseases), that some of our rheumy offices are now reaching out to get us on the calendar for another visit. OOPS!
So if you have visited with one of your doctors, and that visit usually requires a follow-up over the course of a few months, make sure your next visit is on the books!
Countdown to #GivingTuesday! AARDA Education programs will take the spotlight on #GivingTuesday--a global day of generosity that will take place on Tuesday, December 1. #GivingTuesday gifts to AARDA will help to support aarda.org; national webinars and briefings; educational modules; publications; public forums; autoimmune disease surveys; patient toolkits; and more! Whether your gift is $5 or $500, it will help to make a positive and powerful difference for people living with autoimmune disease. Thank you!! https://www.facebook.com/donate/698969684086797/4038243459537230/?fundraiser_source=feed&source_data[post_id]=4038243459537230
Countdown to #GivingTuesday! AARDA Education programs will take the spotlight on #GivingTuesday--a global day of generosity that will take place on Tuesday, December 1. #GivingTuesday gifts to AARDA will help to support aarda.org; national webinars and briefings; educational modules; publications; public forums; autoimmune disease surveys; patient toolkits; and more! Whether your gift is $5 or $500, it will help to make a positive and powerful difference for people living with autoimmune disease. Thank you!! https://www.facebook.com/donate/698969684086797/4038243459537230/?fundraiser_source=feed&source_data[post_id]=4038243459537230
Countdown to #GivingTuesday! AARDA Education programs will take the spotlight on #GivingTuesday--a global day of generosity that will take place on Tuesday, December 1. #GivingTuesday gifts to AARDA will help to support aarda.org; national webinars and briefings; educational modules; publications; public forums; autoimmune disease surveys; patient toolkits; and more! Whether your gift is $5 or $500, it will help to make a positive and powerful difference for people living with autoimmune disease. Thank you!! https://www.facebook.com/donate/698969684086797/4038243459537230/?fundraiser_source=feed&source_data[post_id]=4038243459537230
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We are proud to announce, along with BioNTech, that the Phase 3 study of our #COVID19 vaccine candidate has met all primary efficacy endpoints. Read more: https://on.pfizer.com/3pHF6GT
Countdown to #GivingTuesday! AARDA Education programs will take the spotlight on #GivingTuesday--a global day of generosity that will take place on Tuesday, December 1. #GivingTuesday gifts to AARDA will help to support aarda.org; national webinars and briefings; educational modules; publications; public forums; autoimmune disease surveys; patient toolkits; and more! Whether your gift is $5 or $500, it will help to make a positive and powerful difference for people living with autoimmune disease. Thank you!! https://www.facebook.com/donate/698969684086797/4038243459537230/?fundraiser_source=feed&source_data[post_id]=4038243459537230
Countdown to #GivingTuesday! AARDA Education programs will take the spotlight on #GivingTuesday--a global day of generosity that will take place on Tuesday, December 1. #GivingTuesday gifts to AARDA will help to support aarda.org; national webinars and briefings; educational modules; publications; public forums; autoimmune disease surveys; patient toolkits; and more! Whether your gift is $5 or $500, it will help to make a positive and powerful difference for people living with autoimmune disease. Thank you!! https://www.facebook.com/donate/698969684086797/4038243459537230/?fundraiser_source=feed&source_data[post_id]=4038243459537230
American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA)
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Offers Guidance to Enhance Diversity in Clinical Trials, Encourage Inclusivity in Medical Product Development
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-offers-guidance-enhance-diversity-clinical-trials-encourage-inclusivity-medical-product
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Hospitals Urge America to Mask Up to Fight Covid Surge
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Cleveland Clinic and nearly 100 healthcare systems have banded together in a campaign urging the public to wear a face mask.
American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA)
We're grateful to our founder, Virginia Ladd, for attending the Assessment of NIH Research on Autoimmune Diseases: Meeting 1 and speaking on the State of Autoimmune Diseases in the U.S. today! https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/11-17-2020/assessment-of-nih-research-on-autoimmune-diseases-meeting-1#sectionFACA
AARDA will participate in #GivingTuesday on December 1. If you can host a Facebook Fundraiser or make a donation at www.aarda.org/donate, you'll be helping to make a positive and powerful difference to the autoimmune community.
Are you 70.5 or older? Do you have a traditional IRA? If you answered yes to both questions, there’s a smarter way for you to show your gratitude this season and support those with autoimmune diseases: by making a gift to AARDA directly from your IRA. Get started on this taxwise gift with our free tool: https://www.freewill.com/qcd/aarda?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=202011_aarda_facebook
FreeWill lets you make your last will and testament quick, easy, and completely free. It is a simple online legal will maker that helps you compile will forms to print and sign, or to take as a basic will template to an estate planning lawyer. FreeWill is built alongside will making experts.
Listen to Your Eyes
Today marks the start of Thyroid Eye Disease (TED) Awareness Week. Watch the first of five “TED Today” episodes for insights from TED Specialists and others like you on how to live with or care for someone with TED.
In today’s episode, hosted by ophthalmologist Dr. Andrea Tooley and patient advocate Beatriz Mallory, you’ll watch a Q&A session (2:30) with TED Specialist Dr. Mark Brown from Thyroid Eye Center of the Gulf Coast, hear firsthand what it’s like to live with TED (6:18) and learn about common TED misconceptions (10:10).
TED Awareness Week was launched by Horizon Therapeutics through a collaboration with the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association (AARDA), the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research, the Graves' Disease and Thyroid Foundation, and Prevent Blindness. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3lClIbV. #TEDAwarenessWeek
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Clinton Township, MI
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All walkers must register to participate in the Autoimmune Walk. Register today: CLICK: www.AutoimmuneWalk.org CALL: 1.855.ADWALKS EMAIL: [email protected]
| Monday | 09:30 - 17:00 |
| Tuesday | 09:30 - 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:30 - 17:00 |
| Thursday | 09:30 - 17:00 |
| Friday | 09:30 - 17:00 |
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Please join us on Saturday, August 24, for our Metro Detroit Walkabout & Public Forum. http://autoimmunewalk.org/locationpage.asp?BranchID=124
***HEY METRO DETROITERS, share our flyer with those you know!
*** FIRST PHOTOS FROM THE LOS ANGELES WALK...
*** Sharing more NY Walk photos...
*** FIRST PHOTOS FROM THE OKC AUTOIMMUNE WALK... Our thanks to each and every Walker who joined us today, shared their autoimmune stories, and gave their support. You are much appreciated!!
*** FIRST PHOTOS FROM THE METRO DETROIT WALK -- Linking Together for a Cure! Thanks to everyone who joined us and to every donor who gave!
*** FIRST PHOTOS FROM THE DC METRO WALK!
*** FIRST PHOTOS FROM THE NEW YORK AUTOIMMUNE WALK! Special thanks to Intercept; Nika Beamon; Danielle & Jennifer; Althea Cices; Mike & Rosalie Linn; and Shelia Cruz! More to come...
*** FIRST PITCH FOR AARDA! Linda and Jim Vanthournout reached out to Bowling Green Hot Rods MiLB fans at a recent game. What a great opportunity to educate and engage. Linda even got to throw out the First Pitch! Way to go!!
*** Thanks to all who joined us for "Return to Downton" -- AARDA's spring fundraiser -- last Saturday at The Whitney in Detroit! Here are the first photos from our album. More to come!!!
The AARDA Autoimmune Walk brings a national focus to autoimmune diseases; raises funds for innovative research; and provides hope to the 50 million sufferers nationwide. Since 2012, AARDA has hosted Autoimmune Walks in Atlanta; Bowling Green, KY; Chicago; Cleveland; Detroit; Grand Rapids, MI; Los Angeles; Louisville; Marietta, GA; New York City; Washington, DC; and Oklahoma City, OK. While each Walk event is different, they typically include speakers; exhibitors providing valuable information and resources; health screenings; personal stories; live entertainment; an auction/raffle; and a Warriors Walk in an outdoor setting. Join a Walk near you, help us organize a new one where you live, or do your own Virtual Walk! It all helps to raise much needed awareness, and funding for patient services and research.
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Dr. Mike Aiello for State Representative
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