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Do You Want to Meet Others Living With Sjögren’s Syndrome?

Do You Want to Meet Others Living With Sjögren’s Syndrome?

  • Post author:Ronald Ledsen
  • Post published:April 8, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease/Sjogren's Syndrome/Timely

Are you one of the estimated four million people in the U.S. living with Sjögren’s syndrome? Are you going to be in the Seattle area between April 8th and 9th?…

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Reciviendo mi primer diagnóstico de una enfermedad rara (Video Serie)

Reciviendo mi primer diagnóstico de una enfermedad rara (Video Serie)

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 8, 2016
  • Post category:CAPS/Rare Disease

Bienvenidos a la primera de muchos articulos relacionados con la Video Serie de Patient Worthy! Tuvimos el placer de entrevistar al contribuyente de PatientWorthy Kathryn Ferguson, una madre y una…

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366 talking tips – Background Checking Your Doc

366 talking tips – Background Checking Your Doc

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

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Addison’s Disease is a Pain in the You-Know-What

Addison’s Disease is a Pain in the You-Know-What

  • Post author:Erica Zahn
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Addison's Disease/Rare Disease

If you're like me, you nearly jump out of your skin when somebody makes a loud, unexpected noise nearby. Like the sneaky garbage truck that silently slides up to the…

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366 Talking Tips – Sharing Your Treatment Goals

366 Talking Tips – Sharing Your Treatment Goals

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

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366 Talking Tips – Stick With The Plan

366 Talking Tips – Stick With The Plan

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

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Obama+ A.C.A.+ Republicans = Brent Brown?

Obama+ A.C.A.+ Republicans = Brent Brown?

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

Just when things are getting nastier and nastier on the campaign trails for both Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates, and much to the the dismay of his Far Right Republican…

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CVID: Why is it Called Common When It’s so Rare?

CVID: Why is it Called Common When It’s so Rare?

  • Post author:Erica Zahn
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:CVID/Rare Disease

Imagine, if you will, that you've just been diagnosed with common variable immune deficiency, or CVID. The doctor has answered your most basic questions, and now you're on your way…

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366 Talking Tips – Be Honest About Your Comfort Level

366 Talking Tips – Be Honest About Your Comfort Level

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

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How to Increase Your Steps AND Raise $$ for Epilepsy!

How to Increase Your Steps AND Raise $$ for Epilepsy!

  • Post author:EmpatheticBadass
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Epilespy/Rare Disease/Timely

 Lace up those walking shoes—even if you’re “walking” is really “wheeling” in your wheelchair and go call all your aunties, uncles, friends, and complete strangers for their pledge of support:…

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366 Talking Tips – A Doctor’s Empathy

366 Talking Tips – A Doctor’s Empathy

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

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This Is the Dog-Gone Best Way to Help CRPS
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This Is the Dog-Gone Best Way to Help CRPS

  • Post author:Erica Zahn
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Complex Regional Pain Syndrome/Rare Disease/Timely

Are you available on May 14, 2016? Are you going to be in Jacksonville, Florida? If you answered a double "Yes!" get ready to make a difference in the lives of…

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Man with Cystic Fibrosis Races to Help Others – Part 2
Manny and his family

Man with Cystic Fibrosis Races to Help Others – Part 2

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Cystic Fibrosis/Rare Disease

“We all get along and race together. The family life, the company, the team, the social life, we are very much in this together.” – Manny Goguen Manny Goguen, a…

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Dead Poets Dream Big

Dead Poets Dream Big

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

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New Drug Down Under Helps Ease Pressure of PAH

New Drug Down Under Helps Ease Pressure of PAH

  • Post author:James Ernest Cassady
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:pulmonary arterial hypertension/Rare Disease/Timely

In December 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Uptravi (selexipag) for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension (or PAH). Now, others around the world will have the same…

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Your Life Has a Purpose Past Your Rare Disease

Your Life Has a Purpose Past Your Rare Disease

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

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Everybody Wins a Trophy for Raising the Aplastic Anemia Research Big Bucks
We're number one, and we want to be number one for you!

Everybody Wins a Trophy for Raising the Aplastic Anemia Research Big Bucks

  • Post author:Erica Zahn
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Aplastic anemia/Rare Disease

A recent event held in Houston, Texas, raised over $27,000 to help fund research and raise awareness about bone marrow cancer. The Frontier Fiesta 5K Run, now in its third…

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#SarcoidosisAwareness

#SarcoidosisAwareness

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

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Este Shake Anti-inflamatorio sabe a helado

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 7, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

Años antes de que me diagnosticaron la enfermedad de Lyme en etapa tardía crónica, que habían sido diagnosticados erróneamente con una enfermedad en el pecho, los ganglios linfáticos crónicamente inflamados,…

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Cystinosis Treatments Are in the Works at NIH
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Cystinosis Treatments Are in the Works at NIH

  • Post author:Erica Zahn
  • Post published:April 6, 2016
  • Post category:Cystinosis/Rare Disease

Mika Covington was diagnosed with cystinosis when she was 10 months old, and has struggled with its effects throughout her life. Cystinosis is usually diagnosed before the patient's second birthday. It's…

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Find Out What Happens When The Future Serves the Past
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Find Out What Happens When The Future Serves the Past

  • Post author:Ronald Ledsen
  • Post published:April 6, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease/SCID

Here at Patient Worthy we’ve written before about the heavy toll Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) can have on families and about the lessons learned from the most well-known SCID case,…

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Embrace People Who Refuse to be Helpful

Embrace People Who Refuse to be Helpful

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 6, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

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#SarcoidosisAwareness

#SarcoidosisAwareness

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 6, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

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No Sh*t, Sherlock: You’d Be Tired, Too, If You Lived with PAH!

No Sh*t, Sherlock: You’d Be Tired, Too, If You Lived with PAH!

  • Post author:Alisha Stone
  • Post published:April 6, 2016
  • Post category:pulmonary arterial hypertension/Rare Disease

I revisited an article about a clinical trial that focused on women with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), and I’m still baffled, because it just doesn’t make sense. The information provided about…

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Can YOU Get the Quality Health Care of the One Percenters?

Can YOU Get the Quality Health Care of the One Percenters?

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:April 6, 2016
  • Post category:Rare Disease

I often find myself perusing the interwebs while at work (strictly for research purposes ?) and, like an informed citizen, I was catching up on some news. I stumbled on this lovely…

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