About this Publication
Addison's Disease Self Help Group, issue 95, March 2009
The ADSHG turns 25 this year, making this our silver anniversary. On 21 July 1984, Deana Kenward started the group - at her kitchen table - with just a handful of members. She blames writer and actress Katie Boyle, then the agony aunt at the Radio Times, for everything. Deana had written to the Radio Times to ask if they knew of a support group for people with Addison’s. Katie Boyle wrote back to say no, and why didn’t she start one? So she did.
Page 1: Front page
Happy birthday to us
Annual report
Page 2: From the President
Annette Louise Seal Memorial Research Award
Members' fundraising
Pages 3-5: Medical news
Pandemic flu planning
Government's position on 28-day prescribing
Duo-Cort online survey
Page 5: Group news
Executive at work
Pages 6-9: Medical lecture
The causes of Addison's
Pages 10-11: Home and away
Keeping cool about fludrocortisone
Genetic research: give blood
Rescue of Addison's Disease Study
Life in the slow lane
Page 12: Personal experience
Namaste: trekking in the Himalayas
Page 13: Famous lives
JFK
Page 14: Group news
Medical lecturer profile
Social reports
Page 15: Social update
Regional meetings
Page 16: Back page
Reminders