Whether or not you see a spindle you'd like to adopt, it's hoped you'll consider making a tax deductible donation to
Dr. Peter Rowe's research fund in memory of Allison Caldwell.

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Allison knew Dr. Peter Rowe for 12 years. Dr. Rowe is a general pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Since the early 1990s his research and clinical efforts have focused on the causes and treatments of chronic fatigue. His research showed for the first time that many adolescents and adults with chronic fatigue syndrome develop extremely low blood pressure when positioned upright on a tilt-table. For many of these individuals, their chronic fatigue syndrome symptoms can be improved by a higher intake of salt and by standard medications for treating low blood pressure.

This research has had immediate applicability to thousands. Allison was a participant in one of the earliest of these studies, published in 1995. Dr. Rowe and his colleagues have identified similar problems with circulatory control in fatigued childhood cancer survivors, as well as those with fibromyalgia, chronic abdominal pain, and certain connective tissue disorders.

His overall goal is to establish a center of excellence at Johns Hopkins that will continue to provide better understandings for the care of those with fatiguing illnesses.

If you would like to make a donation to Dr. Rowe's research, please make out a check payable to: Johns Hopkins Children's Center Attn: Dr. Rowe's Research Fund/memory of Allison Caldwell and send it to: JHCC Office of Development Attn: Laverne Lowery One Charles Center 100 N. Charles Street - Suite 200 Baltimore, MD 21201 USA

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