Organizations: P
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Pachyonychia Congenita Fund
(updated on 05/18/2010)
Our mission is to develop and deliver treatments for Pachyonychia Congenita patients worldwide. Activities include research, grants, educational outreach and materials, scientific and patient support meetings, support for patients, families, medical professionals and researchers all focused on Pachyonychia Congenita and related skin disorders.
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Pacific Northwest Friends of FSH Research
(updated on 11/24/2009)
Our mission is to impact the lives of those affected by FSH Muscular Dystrophy by: financially supporting FSHD research, stimulating new research and funding pilot studies, and supporting researchers by hosting FSHD research workshops.
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Paget Foundation
(updated on 11/24/2009)
To provide information on Paget's disease of bone to patients, family members and health professionals. Beginning in 1992, the foundation expanded its mission to include other bone disorders, including primary hyperparathyroidism, fibrous dysplasia, osteopetrosis and the effects of certain cancers on the skeleton.
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Parent Assistance Committee on Down Syndrome
(updated on 11/24/2009)
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Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy
(updated on 08/11/2010)
Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy's mission is to improve the treatment, quality of life and long-term outlook for all individuals affected by Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy through research, education, advocacy and compassion.
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PARENT TO PARENT OF NYS
(updated on 12/02/2009)
Parent to Parent of New York State's mission is to connect and support parents of children with special needs.
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Parents and Researchers Interested in Smith-Magenis Syndrome
(updated on 12/02/2009)
PRISMS is dedicated to providing information and support to families of persons with Smith-Magenis syndrome and fostering partnerships with professionals to increase awareness and understanding.
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Parents of Galactosemic Children, Inc.
(updated on 11/24/2009)
PGC's mission is to help individuals, families, and health care providers with education and care of galactosemia.
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Parkinson's Disease Foundation, Inc.
(updated on 11/24/2009)
The Parkinson's Disease Foundation (PDF) is a leading national presence in Parkinson's disease research, education and public advocacy. PDF is working for the nearly one million people in the US living with Parkinson's by funding promising scientific research and supporting people with Parkinson's, their families and caregivers through educational programs and support services.
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Patient's Best Friend
(updated on 11/24/2009)
Our mission is to provide information and resources to cancer patients and their families so they have access to natural and allopathic treatment information upon which to base their treatment decisions as a first line of defense.
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PCD Foundation
(updated on 11/24/2009)
The PCD (Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia) Foundation seeks to promote research, increase public awareness, and provide information and support services for individuals with inherited ciliary disorders.
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Pediatric Adolescent Gastroesophageal Reflux Association
(updated on 09/02/2010)
PAGER offers support and information to families affected by pediatric GERD and the professionals who treat them.
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Pediatric Neurotransmitter Disease Association
(updated on 04/23/2010)
Our mission is to help children and families who are affected by PNDs, support the identification of new PNDs, find better treatments and ultimately a cure for those diseases that are already known.
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Periodic Paralysis Association
(updated on 11/24/2009)
To provide convenient access to science-based information to help better understand and manage the periodic paralyses. To stimulate interaction between the periodic paralysis community and various professional disciplines that may be able to bring light to this complex and often misunderstood collection of disorders. To provide the tools and a forum for open discussion of the diverse issues associated with these disorders. To promote an increasing level of awareness of these disorders, leading to increased research, improved management guidelines, improved diagnostic protocols, and ultimately, their prevention and cure
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Periodic Paralysis International/HKPP Listserv
(updated on 04/26/2010)
Our mission is to: 1) provide up-to-date accurate medical information about the periodic paralyses to patients and physicians; 2) provide peer support for patients; 3) encourage patients to be informed and involved in the management of their symptoms.
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Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome & Juvenile Polyposis Syndrome Online Support Group
(updated on 05/14/2010)
We are an e-mail forum providing support and information for individuals, families and friends affected by PJS (Peutz-Jeghers syndrome) & JPS (Juvenile Polyposis syndrome). Medical professionals and researchers may join too.
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Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Foundation
(updated on 04/26/2010)
Our mission is to build an alliance of family support for individuals with chromosome 22q13 deletion and to provide families and professionals an opportunity for scientific education and international exchange.
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Piedmont Health Services and Sickle Cell Agency
(updated on 05/07/2010)
Piedmont Health Services and Sickle Cell Agency's mission is to provide outreach, education, screening and case management for people with high-risk health problems. Our vision is to become a leading community-based preventive health and outreach agency for all people.
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Pierpont Syndrome Family
(updated on 11/24/2009)
Parent support for families with children diagnosed with Pierpont Syndrome:(Plantar Lipomatosis, Unusual Facial Phenotype and Developmental Delay) and families with similar yet undiagnosed children.
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Pierre Robin Network
(updated on 11/24/2009)
Our purpose is to network families and individuals with PRS and provide information to anyone who has an interest.
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PKD Foundation
(updated on 11/24/2009)
The PKD Foundation's mission is to promote research to find a cure for PKD and to improve the care and treatment of those it affects.
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PKS Kids
(updated on 11/24/2009)
To promote research, provide education, and raise awareness within the medical community in order to ensure early diagnoses of children with Pallister-Killian Syndrome (PKS). To provide resources and support to families, therapists and caregivers of children with PKS.
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Platelet Disorder Support Association
(updated on 11/24/2009)
Our mission is to enhance the lives of patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura and other platelet disorders.
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Polycystic Kidney Disease Charity
(updated on 11/24/2009)
Our aims are: to provide information, advice and support to those affected by Polycystic Kidney Disease; to fund research into determining the causes of PKD, discovering treatments and a cure; and to raise awareness of PKD, providing information about PKD to patients, the public, the medical community and the media.
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Potentials Foundation - A Cause for Chloe
(updated on 05/07/2010)
To enrich the lives of individuals with MOPDII by facilitating opportunities for families to meet, providing for adaptive or medical needs, and furthering research efforts. Ultimately, we seek to unite those around the world with MOPDII. We are a network of support, as well as a place to turn in times of crisis. We will change the future of this diagnosis by promoting awareness and supporting research.
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Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA)
(updated on 12/02/2009)
Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA) is dedicated to serving individuals affected by Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), their families, and interested professionals.
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Preeclampsia Foundation
(updated on 08/02/2010)
The Preeclampsia Foundation's mission is to reduce maternal and infant illness and death due to preeclampsia by supporting innovative research, raising public awareness, and helping women access safe reproductive technology, support and care.
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Progeria Research Foundation, Inc.
(updated on 06/15/2010)
Our mission is to discover the cure and effective treatment for the rapid-aging disease Progeria, and its aging related disorders.
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Progressive Ossoeous Heteroplasia Association
(updated on 04/22/2010)
POHA is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation for the purpose of raising funds to support research to identify the cause of POH, develop effective treatments for POH and to find a POH cure.
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Project DOCC - Delivery of Chronic Care
(updated on 12/02/2009)
Project DOCC is a non-profit organization whose mission is to use the experience of family caregivers and adult patients to enhance health care practice and inform more responsive policies so that individuals with chronic illness/disability and their families have the services needed to live successfully in the community. Project DOCC seeks to put the individual and family at the center of the health care system, regardless of age, diagnosis, or prognosis.
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Propionic Acidemia Foundation
(updated on 04/16/2010)
The Propionic Acidemia Foundation is dedicated to finding improved treatments and a cure for PA by funding research and providing information and support to families and medical professionals.
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Propionic Acidemia Research Network
(updated on 11/24/2009)
The Propionic Acidemia Research Network facilitates communication between academic and clinical researchers, physicians and families to promote better treatments and a cure for propionic acidemia.
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Proteus Syndrome Foundation
(updated on 11/24/2009)
The Proteus Syndrome Foundation has been founded to support and educate familes and professionals, and to raise money for research to find a cure for individuals living with Proteus Syndrome.
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Prune Belly Syndrome Network, Inc.
(updated on 11/24/2009)
The specific purposes for which this corporation is organized are: To disseminate timely and accurate information about Prune Belly Syndrome to patients, family members, physicians, and other interested parties, to provide means for patients and relatives to share experiences, support one another, and improve their medical care, to encourage, advise, and establish standards for the diagnosis and treatment of Prune Belly Syndrome, to encourage and foster biomedical and other pertinent research on Prune Belly Syndrome, and to undertake all actions as deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors to carry out the forgoing purposes to the extent permitted under state and federal law.
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PSC - Support
(updated on 11/24/2009)
For patients or family members of patients with Primary Sclerosing cholangitis.
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Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research
(updated on 12/02/2009)
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research οΎ– not posted as mission Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research is dedicated to advancing the highest ethical standards in the conduct of research.
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Pull-thru Network, Inc.
(updated on 11/24/2009)
The Pull-thru Network is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to providing education, information, support and advocacy for those individuals, and the families of those individuals, who are affected by any congenital anorectal, colorectal or urogenital disorder and any of the variety of related diagnoses.
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Pulmonary Hypertension Association
(updated on 05/07/2010)
The mission of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) is to find ways to prevent and cure pulmonary hypertension, and to provide hope for the pulmonary hypertension community through support, education, advocacy and awareness.
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Purine Research Society
(updated on 04/23/2010)
The Purine Research Society is a public, nonprofit organization that has supported laboratory research on purine enzyme errors. The Society's goal is that newborn screening will follow, so children will be identified and treated at birth, and symptoms will never develop.
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PXE International, Inc.
(updated on 04/19/2010)
PXE International initiates, conducts and funds research on pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), educates clinicians and supports affected individuals.
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Pyridoxine-Dependent Seizures Registry
(updated on 05/07/2010)
The PDS Registry was developed in order to learn more about the variety of clinical presentations of pyridoxine-dependent seizures (PDS), the response of the disorder to various dosage regiments of pyridoxine, the imaging and EEG characteristics of the disorder, and the long term developmental consequences of PDS.