About this Publication
Addison's Disease Self Help Group newsletter, issue 104, June 2011
Welcome to the summer 2011 newsletter, which is packed full of news. The new dual release hydrocortisone being developed by DuoCort is now becoming available in the UK - at a price - as Jane Hodgkin explains on page 3. Medication costs and access to our essential steroid medication also feature on page 4, where we reprint the ADSHG’s recent letter to the British Medical Journal about prescription costs. The ADSHG’s activities in medical awareness-raising are reported on pages 5 and 6, where Alison Mainwaring describes how she represented us at a nursing forum and we report on the annual British Endocrine Societies’ conference in Birmingham.
Page 1: Front page
Being prepared
Medical recognition of our website
With this issue
Page 2: From the President
New bones for old
Pages 3-4: Recent drug news
Dual release hydrocortisone available in UK
28 day prescribing in the news
The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow?
Pages 5-7: Medical update
Royal College of Nursing invites our input
British Endocrine Societies conference
Addison's highlighted at European endocrine conference
Page 8: Around the group
Immunodeficiency study at Oxford
Genetic research: give blood
Pregnancy study
Pages 9-12: Personal experiences
This student life
Blues and twos from the dentist
Ambulance alerts
Travelling light
Pages 13-14: Group news
Jan's social corner
Ian's fundraising bit
Members' donations
Page 15: Social update
Regional meetings
Page 16: Back page
Reminders