About this Publication
Addison's Disease Self Help Group newsletter, issue 81, September 2005
Welcome to the 81st issue of the ADSHG newsletter. This is the first of our new-look newsletters and combines the regular print newsletter with our webnewsletter. It will be published four times a year, in September, December, March and June.
Page 1: Front page
Ensure you don't run out of essential steroid medication
ADSHG emergency card
Page 2: From the President
Making friends across the ADSHG
Regional reports
Page 3: Recent news
Fludrocortisone shortage continues
Genetic research into the hereditory basis of Addison’s
Page 4: Executive at work
Our letter to Primary Care Trusts about medication needs
Pages 5-8: Medical feature
Professor John Wass’s 2005 lecture to the ADSHG
Page 9: Around the group
How the fludrocortisone shortage has affected us
Member’s news
Page 10: Personal experience
What it means to be an ‘Expert Patient’
Page 11: Notices
Medical seminar and regional meetings for 2005
Medical lecture 2006
2006 subscription rates
BMJ reviews our website
Page 12: Back page
Reminders