Youor a loved one has received a diagnosis. Now what? Gaining knowledge, connecting with advocacy organizations, and learning about treatment at places like the Centers for Excellence are the next steps.
We pioneered Patient Assistance Programs in 1987. Today, NORD programs include free drug, co-pay and premium assistance, travel/lodging assistance for clinical trials, expanded or emergency access, and more.
NORD believes in the power of collaboration. It is the foundation upon which NORD was built. NORD works with partners in the patient community, government, academia, and industry who share the ultimate goal of identifying, treating, and curing rare diseases. In addition to the partnerships listed below, NORD works with many national partners to achieve its advocacy goals.
NORD is a registered 501(c)(3) charity organization.
Please note that NORD provides this information for the benefit of the rare disease community. NORD is not a medical provider or health care facility and thus can neither diagnose any disease or disorder nor endorse or recommend any specific medical treatments. Patients must rely on the personal and individualized medical advice of their qualified health care professionals before seeking any information related to their particular diagnosis, cure or treatment of a condition or disorder.
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While Rowland is not at the age where he would be eligible for Trikafta anyway, I wish we had the reassurance of knowing that he could at least try it at age 6. However, that is not our current reality.
While 2184insA would not respond to a modulator, his other mutation H609R could potentially respond, but there is limited data on this mutation. As I was doing more research, one study suggested that H609R is the second most common mutation in Ecuador. Unfortunately, Ecuador lacks the resources the U.S. has and only has access to common mutation panels that do not identify H609R without help from countries that have access to DNA sequencing that would identify H609R. This leads me to believe there might be many people with this mutation living without a diagnosis.
Sometimes I struggle knowing the mutation I passed on to my son has only been found in Ecuadorean populations. I wonder if we would have more information about how H609R functions by now if the mutation were common in the U.S. Maybe we would even have access to a modulator if it were more common here.
I do not take this for granted. This journey has really taken our family on an emotional rollercoaster. Sometimes I experience grief, fear, and hope all at the same time. I feel passionate about advocating for people with rare mutations, and I hope our experience sheds a bit of light on how rare mutations can be missed and facilitates conversations on how to further improve early diagnosis (and there have already been so many advancements) for those living with rare CF mutations.
The goals of conservation actions are to not only protect current populations, but to also establish further populations to reduce the risk of extinction. In addition to common statewide and island conservation actions, specific actions include surveying historic ranges for surviving populations, augmenting wild population and establishing new populations in safe harbors, monitoring for insect damage and plant diseases, developing research, and more to better manage and restore plant populations.
Below you can find species profile pages for 20 priority rare plant species. Further down on this page we also have 177 species fact sheets for rare plant taxa identified in our State Wildlife Action Plan.
The Hawaiʻi State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) includes rare plants with conservation needs. There are 177 fact sheets, which provide information on species described on our SWAP pages as genetic safety net species.
The foundation of our work to protect the biodiversity of the Commonwealth revolves around cataloging and gathering geographic information about Virginia's rarest species and significant natural communities. Here we present a plethora of information including lists of our rare species and natural communities, a detailed classification of our natural communities, a searchable geo-database, maps that geographically summarize some of this information, and an atlas of our rarest butterfly/moth/damselfly/dragonfly species.
There are a bunch of ways to get the word out: Text a birder friend of yours; send an email to your local birding listserv (find them here); send a tweet with the hashtag #ABArare (ABA stands for the American Birding Association); post on Facebook to any number of local birding groups.
The EU's strategic objective for rare diseases is to improve patient access to diagnosis, information, and care. It assists in pooling scarce resources spread across the EU, enabling patients and professionals to share expertise and information.
ERICA unites the expertise of the 24 ERNs and other partners including Eurordis, Orphanet and research infrastructures. It creates a collaborative platform to share knowledge and good practices by assembling trans-disciplinary research groups across different medical areas.
The Council Recommendation of 2009 on an action in the field of rare diseases, amongst other things, recommended that Member States establish and implement plans or strategies for rare diseases to aim to ensure that patients with rare diseases have access to high-quality care.
These national plans or strategies can also help promote ERNs at national level and facilitate the exchange of best practices among EU countries. The Joint Action JARDIN on integration of the ERNs into national healthcare systems will also seek to achieve the sustainability of its proposed actions and implementations by their integration into updated national plans and strategies for rare diseases.
The Joint Research Centre, in collaboration with DG SANTE, has developed and manages the European Platform on Rare Disease Registration (EU RD Platform) to provide a unified access point to rare disease registries and all types of data sources in Europe.
This Partnership aims to develop new diagnostic methods and pathways, and to support concrete health benefits to rare disease patients, through better prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, while ensuring strong alignment of strategies in rare diseases research across countries and regions.
At Recordati Rare Diseases, we focus on the few - those affected by rare diseases. We believe that every single patient has the right to the best possible treatment. Patients with rare diseases are our top priority. They are at the core of our planning, our thinking and our actions.
We are a group of like-minded, passionate individuals who go to extraordinary lengths for our partners, customers, investors and the people across the globe who we serve. We develop and commercialise medicines to serve people living with common diseases, as well as those living with some of the rarest, in around 150 countries.
The Rare Disease Act of 2002 (P.L. 107-280) directed the NIH Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR) to establish a Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) , a collaborative network of investigators and patient advocacy groups, in partnership with technology leaders, that focuses on studying rare diseases to enhance communication and resource sharing. To date, the RDCRN has studied more than 190 rare diseases in collaboration with many patient advocacy groups. Ten institutes, centers, and offices across NIH support the RDCRN.
The Urea Cycle Disorders Consortium examines disorders that affect the body's urea cycle, which regulates the metabolic process of converting wastes from the breakdown of food into urea. In urea cycle disorders, these wastes build up in the blood and cause neurological and other developmental problems.
PHEFREE studies the health, neurologic, cognitive, neuropsychiatric, patient-reported, and quality-of-life outcomes in individuals with inherited disorders involving elevated blood phenylalanine including phenylalanine hydroxylase deficiency (also known as phenylketonuria or PKU), defects in biopterin synthesis or recycling, or deficiency of the chaperone protein DNAJC12.
Mitochondrial diseases affect approximately 1 in every 5,000 people. They can cause muscle weakness, cognitive impairment, seizures, hearing and vision loss, stomach problems, learning disabilities, and organ failure.
The DSC focuses on synaptopathies associated with tuberous sclerosis complex, PTEN Hamartoma Tumor Syndrome, and Phelan-McDermid syndrome. These three conditions share features of autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disability as well as common genetic pathways.
Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) make up a large group of rare, inherited disorders that affect a complex process in the body called glycosylation. Most children who have CDG have neurological issues and symptoms, developmental problems, growth delays, and problems with organs not working like they should.
The Brittle Bone Disorders Consortium focuses on understanding and providing better therapeutic options for osteogenesis imperfecta, which describes conditions associated with bones that break easily and can cause deformity, chronic pain, and death. The consortium encompasses 13 inherited bone fragility conditions.
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