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	<title>The Addi and Cassi Fund - Niemann Pick Type C &#187; Health Care Policy</title>
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	<description>Treatments &#38; Cures for Niemann Pick Type C - Childhood Alzheimer&#039;s</description>
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		<title>Social Security Disability &#8216;Compassionate Allowance&#8217; &#8211; Only For Those Who are Impoverished?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I called the Social Security Office in Nevada to find out about the compassionate allowance program for our twins. Last month, the Social Security Administration added 38 more conditions to the already 50 rare diseases and cancers designated for compassionate allowance, which provides expedited review of disability applications from people with severely disabling conditions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rare Disease Idea Leads &#8216;Ideas For Change In America&#8217; Competition by Change.org</title>
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Ideas for Change in America is a competition that empowers citizens to identify and build momentum around a diverse range of ideas for addressing the challenges our country faces.
From January &#8211; February 2010, more than 2,500 ideas were submitted and voted on by 100,000 people across the country. The top three rated ideas from each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA and EMA Forge Rare Disease Collaboration; Announcement Coincides with World Rare Disease Day 2010</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recognition of World Rare Disease Day 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that they will collaborate together and now accept a single annual report from sponsors with an orphan drug designation for rare medical conditions.
The joint announcement was made by Dr. Timothy Cote, director of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN Covers How California Health Care Budget Cuts Threaten Life of Little Girl Suffering From Deadly Cholesterol Disease</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Embedded video from CNN Video
Here is a story on sweet little Jessica Leoni who suffers from the same disease as Addi and Cassi.  Her health care is being threatened by California&#8217;s Health Care crisis.  Here is the story from CNN.
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) &#8212; Anthony and Lisa Leoni have little time to worry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Rare Diseases Will Help Us Solve Common Diseases</title>
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The Key To The Closet Is The Key to the Kingdom: A Common Lesson of Rare Diseases
How can understand more about the most common diseases that affect mankind.&#160; By looking at the rarest diseases. This story takes us back&#8230;&#8230;

Nearly twenty centuries ago, the Roman poet Juvenal wrote in The Satires about &#8220;a rare bird comparable [...]]]></description>
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