News
Eosinophils & APFED in the News….
2012 Anderson Cooper – “The Boy Who Cannot Eat”
2011 Abbey S. Meyers Award presented to APFED by NORD for outstanding leadership in the areas of education and advocacy
http://www.emoryhealthsciblog.com/?p=4704
http://www.nnpdf.org/NORDToHonorRareDiseaseInnovators.htm
http://markets.pe.com/pe/news/read?GUID=18171774
APFED Founder Beth Mays, subject of book chapter in The Web Savvy Patient, interviewed on “the View”
The Web Savvy Patient, a book about using the Internet to help educate and empower patients, by Andrew Schorr and Mary Adam Thomas, links to APFED on their Resources page.
Click here for more details. (Book called The Web Savvy Patient that mentions APFED)
Racing for A Cause’s Ricky Springer Features on the cover of Singularity magazine
This issue of Singularity features a great interview with Ricky Springer (Eosinophilic Colitis, age 9). Ricky is a competitive go-kart racer who started Racing for a Cause (http://www.racingforacause.com) to help educate people about EOS and APFED. Ricky's goal is that "No one should suffer and live in pain like I did". One lap at a time, he's helping make that a reality.
Interview with Ricky Springer regarding Racing for a Cause
Char Magnifico of The Traveling Twosome, For APFED
Char Magnifico, star of The Traveling Twosome, announces to her fans that she is living with eosinophilic esophagitis. Char and her husband Louis plan on using their show to help create awareness of these diseases.
Char Magnifico's announcement
APFED/Eosinophil Associated Disorders
Rare condition means young boy can only eat 6 foods
5-4-2012 Birmingham, AL
The Long Haul: Life With an Eosinophilic Disorder and a Race to Raise Awareness
5-1-2012 Oklahoma City, OK
McDonough boy uses love of go-karts to bring awareness
4-18-2012 McDonough, GA
Bands will "Rock the Cure" this weekend
4-10-2012 Rockingham, NC
Rare food allergy cases up, affects Tucson boy
4-4-2012 Tuscos, AZ
Update boy known as G3 visits DC to lobby Congress
3-29-2012 Greenville, SC
Cape Coral teen suffers from rare disorder
3-15-2012 Cape Coral, FL
Upstate boy can only eat 4 foods
2-29-2012 Greenville, SC
Is something in your food making you sick?
1-30-2012, McDonough, GA
Boy can only eat seven foods
1-9-2012, Greenville, SC
Baugh uses games to keep swinging
1-11-2012, San Antonio, Texas
Utah family pressures insurers to cover formula
1-5-2012, Salt Lake City, Utah
Afraid to Eat
1-5-2012, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
2011
Some cases of acid reflux may be another condition
12-18-2011, Deptford, NJ
Rare disorder leaves Oklahoma woman unable to swallow food
12-18-2011, Choctaw, OK
The Strength to grow: Area youth faced with rare eating disease perseveres
12-3-2011, Kenai, AK
- Bravery of the Girl Who is Fed Through a Stomach Tube but Takes Lunchbox to School to "Fit In With Friends"
- 9-5-2011, UK
Boy, 6, Is Allergic to Food – All Food
6-2-2011 Hoover, AL
Hoover boy’s rare disease leaves him allergic to almost everything he eats
6-1-2011 Hoover, AL
Life Without Food: Eosinophilic disorders make some kids (and adults) allergic to eating
5-2011 Life Without Food Magazine, April/May 2011
Kin of a stricken Staten Island buisness owner Anthony Gerardi mount fundraiser
2-4-2011, Staten Island, NY
