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Registration Now Open for FREE Conferences!

Interact with leading medical experts, connect with other patients and their families, and leave feeling hopeful and energized! Whether newly diagnosed, long-term survivor, caregiver, or friend, these conferences have something for you.

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Don't let promising research go unfunded

22 promising MDS, PNH, and aplastic anemia research projects are being considered now for 2013 funding by AA&MDSIF. Gifts received by May 30th will be matched dollar for dollar.

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Bike across America with Tom and support him through your computer or cell phone!

Go to www.aamds.org/b4mds and select a segment to sponsor – perhaps a nearby town or an area that’s meaningful to you. Sponsor a segment for only $25. OR, Using your cell phone, text AAMDS to 85944 for an easy $10 donation. What an easy...

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Patient Guides Available in Spanish and French

Your Guide to Understanding Aplastic Anemia and Your Guide to Understanding MDS are available in Spanish and French and Living Well With Bone Marrow Failure Diseases is available in Spanish.

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The Bone Marrow Garden - for Children and Parents

A video and slide presentation explaining bone marrow failure, the treatments, side effects, and activity restrictions. Dr. David Margolis helps to make bone marrow failure diseases understandable to children and their parents.

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Looking for answers?

A new diagnosis of bone marrow failure disease raises many questions for patients and their loved ones. You may feel confused and overwhelmed. There is so much to learn and do – how can you even know even where to begin?

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Look to AA&MDSIF to Be Your Partner in Patient Care

We are your resource of choice, providing everything you need to serve your bone marrow failure disease patients. We offer research updates, practical treatment guidance, CME opportunities, and patient education resources.

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About Bone Marrow Failure

Aplastic Anemia »

Aplastic anemia happens when the bone marrow stops making blood cells for the body.
Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) »

MDS is a group of disorders that happens when bone marrow cells don't mature.
Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria (PNH) »

PNH is a rare blood disease that causes red blood cells to break apart.