Side-Out Wins National 2015 PhRMA Research & Hope Award

Phrma Research & Hope Award

Washington, D.C., September 10, 2015 — Northern Virginia-based non-profit, The Side-Out Foundation, was honored by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA Research) with the Community Champion Research & Hope Award at a celebration in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday evening, the foundation announced. The award recognizes Side-Out for its outstanding achievements in the fight […]

Advocating for the Breast Cancer Deadline!

About three weeks ago, several of us at Side-Out attended The National Breast Cancer Coalition’s (NBCC) Annual Advocacy Training Conference in Washington, DC (Saturday, April 30th through Tuesday, May 3rd). If you haven’t heard about it yet, NBCC set a deadline for the end of breast cancer. In a document explaining the deadline, the organization […]

Obama Speaks at Town Hall Meeting

I am not a health care expert. I do, however, consider myself an expert patient, so I was excited when Rick asked me to attend President Obama’s talk about health care reform at George Mason University this morning. I admit that I do not follow politics very closely, and I do not claim to understand […]