FM World Charities

FM World Charities is a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting public health and improving the quality of life in under served communities throughout the world. FM aims to increase awareness of issues pertaining to public health and wellness while also providing basic primary care to those without access to health care.

Having roots in an established record label with charity at its core, FM World enlists celebrities and media personalities to accomplish its goals and projects.

Recently

FM World Charities is working with Astron Clinica to provide skin cancer screening sessions during the Vans Warped Tour traveling across America this summer. Screening will be carried out using cutting-edge imaging equipment and free gifts will be handed out to all interested attendees. Paige Wood, artist and melanoma survivor, will be joining the tour and helping to raise awareness of skin cancer. [http://www.astronclinica.com/] [http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS133349+21-Jul-2008+PRN20080721] [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4PRN/is_2008_July_21/ai_n27930651]

History

Eric Gast [http://music.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.asp?qsrch=A&WRD=eric+gast] [http://www.famegame.com/profile/Eric_Gast] [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/464/880] veteran music producer and mixer is the Founder and CEO.

Initatives

Preventative Health Care & Skin Cancer Screening

One of the goals of FM World Charities is to increase awareness of common, treatable illnesses among all populations. The most common causes of disease leading to death around the world are strikingly similar. Cardiovascular accidents (heart attack, stroke), neoplasm (cancers of all types), diabetes mellitus and infectious diseases are the most often seen. One large problem is that many of these conditions are preventable or easily treated if diagnosed early.

We at FM World Charities feel that part of providing adequate health care is to help screen for common illnesses before they become life threatening. One concept that we have developed is to provide screening sessions during concerts and other public events. This will be useful in two ways. It will not only increase the number of individuals being screened for these conditions but, given the age of the people usually attending these events, introduce the idea of preventative health care to a young audience. For example, the incidence of skin cancers is increasing rapidly throughout the world. A small lesion that develops when a person is 20 years of age will often be ignored for years before it becomes symptomatic and life threatening. Early diagnosis and treatment is the key to avoiding these problems.

Vision and Services

We plan to establish a system where people who are attending an event will be able to have the screening done quickly and conveniently. A small tent or room can be set up to include a physician and nurse who will be able to quickly evaluate each person. The trained visual eye most often does this technique. However, small, handheld machines are becoming popular to evaluate questionable lesions and will make it easier to screen larger numbers of people. Photographs of the lesions are taken and later re-evaluated. If there is anything suspicious about the lesion, the patient will be contacted by mail or phone and directed to the appropriate medical facility for confirming diagnosis and follow up treatment.

Future Goals

As mentioned above, screening for potential skin cancers is only one of many types of screenings that can be easily and quickly done. Testing for glucose, blood pressure levels, cholesterol, and many other measures can help diagnose the most common problems leading to illness and death. Establishing a system that can be easily moved from one location to another will be our initial goal.

We are also planning on establishing a mobile unit that may be used to travel around the countries where we are working and set up in a specific location to screen populations that may not necessarily be able to attend one of our events. FM plans to use sponsored merchandise giveaways and media personality appearances to increase attendance at these screenings.

External links

* [http://www.fmworldcharities.org FM World Charities Website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/fmworldcharities Myspace Website]

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