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Congress has temporarily extended the legislation through 2009 that allows donors to make tax-free gifts from their IRA Accounts. If you are age 70½ or older and do not need all or a part of the distributions from your IRA you can make tax-free gifts totaling up to $100,000 in 2009 from your traditional or Roth IRA to qualified charities.
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 Charity Navigator's rating system examines two broad areas of a charity's financial health: how responsibly it functions day to day as well as how well positioned it is to sustain its programs over time. Each charity is then awarded an overall rating, ranging from zero to four stars. To help donors avoid becoming victims of mailing-list appeals, each charity's commitment to keeping donors' personal information confidential is assessed.
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Chris Harrison, host of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" series has a personal connection to scleroderma. In this video he introduces us to the disease, people living with it, and how the Foundation helps those affected by it. |
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(Rockville, Maryland) — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finalized guidelines that will allow pharmaceutical and device company reps to distribute journal articles to doctors about off-label uses of their products. The new recommendations are a finalized version of the draft about "good reprint practices" first issued in February 2008.
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 NIH News in Health - Bright blue skies, blankets of snow, crisp days and cozy nights by a crackling fire. For many people, winter is a welcome time of year. But for people with certain diseases like arthritis, it can be a pain—literally.
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Sexuality is a complex aspect of the human being’s life and is more than only the sexual act. Normal sexual functioning consists of sexual activity with transition through the phases from arousal to relaxation with no problems, and with a feeling of pleasure, fulfillment and satisfaction. Rheumatic diseases may affect all aspects of life including sexual functioning.
Free Online Brochure! "Scleroderma and Sexuality" (PDF) |
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Dr. John Varga and colleagues at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine found that rosiglitazone, a treatment commonly used in type-2 diabetes, may reduce the severity of scleroderma. |
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Children with chronic diseases often don't see themselves as too sick to take part in physical activity, and that's good, a new study shows. |
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