The Canadian Digestive Health Foundation ('' French:'' Fondation Canadienne de la Santé Digestive) or CDHF, is a registered

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. The organization was founded in 1993 as the Canadian Digestive Disease Foundation and renamed the Canadian Digestive Health Foundation in 2001. The objectives of the Foundation are to educate the general public about

digestive disease Gastrointestinal diseases (abbrev. GI diseases or GI illnesses) refer to diseases involving the gastrointestinal tract, namely the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum; and the accessory organs of digestion, the liver, ...

and

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, and to advance the science of

gastroenterology Gastroenterology (from the Greek gastḗr- "belly", -énteron "intestine", and -logía "study of") is the branch of medicine focused on the digestive system and its disorders. The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract, sometime ...

by funding

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. In February 2001, it was officially endorsed as the Foundation for the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. Since then it has raised and invested more than $1 million to fund Canadian researchers in the field of digestive health.

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Canadian Digestive Health Foundation

"Research"Canadian Association of Gastroenterology
Health charities in Canada Companies established in 1995 Medical and health organizations based in Ontario