A group for adults and children (and their parents) providing an opportunity to both share experiences and hope and learn from expert speakers. To learn more about their meetings and activities, call a leader of the group at 704/366-7175 Monday through Friday from 7 p.m.to 9 p.m., call another leader at 704/541-9581 any day 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or click here to e-mail a leader.

Their next meeting is on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. in the Community Room) at Charlotte's South County Regional Library, 5801 Rea Road at the SE corner of Rea Road and Pineville-Matthews Road (that's Highway 51).  Friends and family are always welcome as well as anyone with Graves' Disease.  Parking is free in the library lot.

Click here for details about the library and its location.  Anyone with questions should contact a leader at 704/541-9581 any day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or click here to e-mail a leader.

The group is very excited to have their national organization's annual meeting here in Charlotte on October 16-18, 2009.  Click here to see the details.  

(Click for overview of Pituitary and Thyroid resources)

Until 1997 there was a group in Charlotte for people with pituitary disorders.  It stopped meeting for lack of attendance.  Two of the more common disorders (acromegaly & Cushing's Disease) are included, but all types of pituitary disorders are addressed.  If you have a pituitary disorder, or have a desire to participate in the group should it restart, please call the previous group leader at 375-7857 anyday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

This service provides comprehensive data and referral assistance for nonprofit and government resources in the NC counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, and Anson counties and in or near the city of Mooresville, NC.  If you are calling on a landline or residential phone in one of those counties, dial 2-1-1.  If that fails, if you are calling on a cell phone, or if you are calling from anywhere else in NC, call 866/744-7778.  For calls from out of NC, use their local number of 704/377-1100. Although they are open 24 hours a day, you may wish to call weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. for non-emergency questions.

The friendly staff at this full service library can help you research any medical topic using their up-to-date computers, databases, journals and books.  No previous research experience or medical knowledge is required. Click here for details or call them at 704-384-6393.

MedLinePlus

This service of the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health is one of the better one-stop shops for beginning your search on the internet for medical information.  For those of you who live in Mecklenburg and Union counties in NC, we recommend that you contact the Health Library for more personal assistance from the experts there in searching for reliable medical information. Click here for their details.

Click to link to any of these lists of national groups: 

The Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine Index
The Genetic Alliance
NORD (National Organization for Rare Diseases) Database

Click here to branch to the American Self-Help Clearinghouse listing of toll-free phone numbers for a wide variety of topics.