| Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation Partners With Fundraising ... | | Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 12:57:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | SAN DIEGO, June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Most people cannot pronounce it. Few have even heard of it. Yet it affects over 1% of the people in the United States. It causes considerable pain, disfigurement, and is often disabling. It is Hidradenitis Suppurativa, or HS. In 2005, a San Diego resident and patient with HS, Michelle Barlow, co- founded the Hidradenitis Suppurativa Foundation to help discover the cause of this disease and find better treatments for patients. To bring together a community of physicians and researchers that were dedicated to HS, the HSF organized "Directions 2006," the First International Hidradenitis Suppurativa Research Symposium. "The Symposium was a resounding success," said Michelle Barlow, president of the HSF. "It became quite clear that the Symposium should be an annual event, which, of course, costs money.... | |
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