Patient Groups/Australia
Patient Groups are organisations which claim to represent the interests of patients suffering various illnesses. Many are funded, and in some case staffed, by the pharmaceutical companies which sell treatments for the relevant illnesses.
Patient Groups in Australia include:
- Alzheimer's Australia
- Arthritis Australia
- Asthma Foundation of Australia
- Australian Hearing
- Australasian Sleep Association
- Breast Cancer Awareness Network
- Consumers' Health Forum of Australia
- Cysteic Fibrosis Australia
- Diabetes Australia
- DepressioNet
- Eczema Association of Australia
- Epilepsy Australia
- Epilisy Action Australia
- Heart Support - Australia Ltd
- Herpes Foundation
- Impotence Australia
- Learning and Attentional Disorders Society
- Macular Degeneration Foundation
- Meningitis Centre
- Mental Health Council of Australia
- Mental Illness Fellowship of Australia
- Motor Neurone Disease Association of Asustralia
- National Asthma Council
- Osteoporosis Australia
- SANE Australia
- Sleep Disorders Australia
Other SourceWatch Resources
External Links
- Tim Woodruff, "A question of funding and control", The Age, August 11, 2006.*Douglas Ball, Klara Tisocki and Andrew Herxheimer, "Advertising and disclosure of funding on patient organisation websites: a cross-sectional survey", BMC Public Health, August 3, 2006.
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