In the News

AAAA Information Now on VDF Website! (www.vdf.org)
We have just added a new information section to our web site on AAA—abdominal aortic aneurysms. Explore this comprehensive section to find out what the disease is and how it's diagnosed and treated. Comparable to our other disease sections on the site, this information was written and edited by some of the top vascular specialists in the country. We are grateful to Cordis Endovascular for a grant to enable us to provide this new section.

Wild Oats Day
The Vascular Disease Foundation was awarded 5% of profits generated on February 24th at Denver's Wild Oats Market. This was a great opportunity to raise awareness, pass out materials and answer questions on vascular disease with their shoppers and employees. Thank you to Wild Oats Market.

Vascular Meetings
The VDF staff was fortunate to attend or exhibit at several vascular professional meetings. These included: The Society of Interventional Radiology (Salt Lake City in March ), Society for Vascular Nursing (Philadelphia in March), American College of Cardiology (Chicago in March), American College of Physicians (San Diego in April) and the American Diabetes Association Consensus Development Conference on PAD in Diabetes in Virginia in May. We also will be attending the Society for Vascular Medicine and Biology, and the American Association for Vascular Surgery and the Society for Vascular Surgery meetings in June in Chicago. These are wonderful opportunities to introduce the goals, missions and publications of the organization to those involved in the everyday care of patients with vascular diseases.

VDF to Attend AARP
The Foundation will have a booth at the AARP National Event called "Life@50+: A Celebration of You." The conference will be held September 5-7 in Chicago. For information about the conference contact AARP at www.aarp.org. If you go, please be sure to stop by and see us in Booth #1432.