National Reye's Syndrome Foundation

Reye's Syndrome, a deadly disease, strikes swiftly and can attack any child or adult without warning. All body organs are affected, with the liver and brain suffering most seriously. While the cause and cure remain unknown, research has established a link between Reye's Syndrome and the use of aspirin and other salicylate containing medications. In 1974, the National Reye's Syndrome Foundation was incorporated, becoming the first citizen group to generate a concerted, organized lay movement to eradicate Reye's Syndrome.

The Foundation's Top Objectives are:

• AWARENESS- to aid in early detection and educate the public and medical communities about the risk involved with using aspirin and other salicylates.
  
  
• SERVICE- to provide emotional support and guidance to families experiencing the trauma of Reye's Syndrome.
  
  

• RESEARCH- to support investigation into the disease's cause, management, treatment and prevention, as well as study its impact on survivors.

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  Become a Member of the NRSF
  

• We invite you to become a member of the National Reye's Syndrome Foundation. Please fill in the application form and return it to the provided address, along with membership level payment. Your membership card will quickly be sent to you. Membership in the NRSF will enable you to receive our biannual newsletter and informative mailings.

• Gifts to our organization are tax deductible in accordance with IRS regulations.

• Your membership gift aids in helping the National Reye's Syndrome Foundation combat Reye's Syndrome in many different ways.
  
  For instance:

• $25 will fund the printing of 356 Reye's Syndrome public awareness brochures; "Because You Need to Know."

  $50 will help fund our Daycare Awareness Programs, providing Brochures in Multiple Languages and Posters.

  $75 will help fund our School and Health Department Awareness Programs, providing Brochures in Multiple Languages and Posters.

  $100 will make it possible to send 91 Emergency Room posters to clinics and hospitals throughout the United States.

  $200 will send 398 packets of information to public, parochial, and private school systems across the country.

  $250 will help us translate our website information into various languages for parents, teachers and medical professionals around the world.

  $500 will help supply 250 informative material packets to nursing students, hospital libraries, physicians, and public libraries.

  $1000 will help us in our push to mandate drug companies change the wording on their aspirin products packaging with larger warnings, and the removal of the words "baby" and "children's" from the packaging labels.

• You can double your donation. If your company has a matching gifts program, obtain the appropriate form from your personnel office and include it with your membership application. THANK YOU!

• Another Way to Help:

  "I give and bequeath to the National Reye's Syndrome Foundation, Inc., a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation having its principal office at 426 North Lewis Street, Bryan, Ohio 43506, the sum of $____________ to be used by said corporation for its general purposes."

  Friends who wish to secure information about making gifts, bequests, or other memorials for general or specific purposes of the NRSF are invited to participate with our investment firm, by contacting the National Reye's Syndrome Foundation and requesting a copy of our NRSF Planned Giving Program pamphlet.

  The National Reye's Syndrome Foundation is the only organization in existence solely fighting Reye's Syndrome. The Foundation neither seeks nor receives government grants or funds for services rendered and depends totally on voluntary contributions for support of all programs.

To become a member of the National Reye's Syndrome Foundation, click here.

Know that your donations and memberships allow us to continue spreading Awareness about Reye's Syndrome to new mom's, new medical professionals, caregivers, schools, daycare centers, churches, and immigrants, and to a global population who can now access this website. You make a difference, a life and death difference. -- Thank You.