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Finally, These Two Doctors Find the “Missing Link”

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:July 14, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Primary Immunodeficiencies/Rare Disease

Scientists Make Key Discovery in Rare Disease Category A gene that may play a role in solving the mysteries of autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and…

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A Dog on the Leash is Worth a Half Hour on the Couch

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:July 14, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Rare Disease

Blogger Zebra’s Child, who has common variable immune deficiency, recently posted about the struggle she finds staring herself in the face first thing in the morning. While looking in the…

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How to Answer the Top 5 Questions about PID

How to Answer the Top 5 Questions about PID

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:July 14, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Primary Immunodeficiencies/Rare Disease

Sometimes we want things to be explained to us in a way we can relate to. Mother of two and Common Variable Immune Deficiency (CVID) Blogger on "Through Accepting Limits"…

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CVID Survivor Leaves Her Life in the Hands of Strangers

CVID Survivor Leaves Her Life in the Hands of Strangers

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:July 10, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Rare Disease

Vanessa Garrett, a woman with Crohn’s disease, common variable immunodeficiency (CVID), and Hereditary Leiomyomatosis and Renal Cell Cancer (HLRCC), is grateful for her life despite her circumstances. Her family is…

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Breakthrough DNA Test Trades Your Privacy for Security

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:July 9, 2015
  • Post category:Ankylosing Spondylitis/Rare Disease

With seven billion people in the world, there's a lot that makes us different from one another-- wealth, geographic location, family, interests. But our common ground? The ultimate equalizer of…

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Poll: Is it Time to Make Cures Our #1 Priority?

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:July 9, 2015
  • Post category:Rare Disease

The Congress backed 21st Century Cures Act will be making its way to the House or Representatives' desks this week. After receiving a 51-0 unanimous vote from the The House…

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Doctors Couldn’t Detect Her Pain, Until This
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Doctors Couldn’t Detect Her Pain, Until This

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:July 1, 2015
  • Post category:Ankylosing Spondylitis/Rare Disease

Lisa Marie Basile finds living with an auto-immune disease frustrating. She also had a hard time getting a diagnosis because, as she says, "...many autoimmune disorders don't come with a…

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How much do you know about blood and donating it?

How much do you know about blood and donating it?

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 30, 2015
  • Post category:Rare Disease

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Once an Afterthought, Orphan Drugs Own Spotlight

Once an Afterthought, Orphan Drugs Own Spotlight

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 30, 2015
  • Post category:Rare Disease

In the world today, there are 30 million Americans affected by 7,000 different forms of rare diseases, all in need of treatment. But because the diseases are so rare, treatment for them…

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How to save a life: Donate Blood!

How to save a life: Donate Blood!

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 30, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Rare Disease

  Ordinary Mom Delivers Extraordinary Gift of Life BROOKWATER, Australia. Corinne Heapy, a devoted mother of two, knows firsthand, what it’s like to give the gift of life. She’s heroically…

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Triumphant CVID Survivor Puts the “L” & “E” in IV
Erin shown during one of her IV treatments. Source:CNN

Triumphant CVID Survivor Puts the “L” & “E” in IV

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 29, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Rare Disease

Erin can't recall a time in her life when she wasn't sick. Since the age of four, she has had an endless succession of infections, sinusitis, bronchitis, urinary tract infections,…

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Would You Volunteer to Break Your Legs? This Kid Did!

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 29, 2015
  • Post category:Cystinosis/Rare Disease

You know those commercials, "What would you do for a Klondike bar?" Think about that, but instead of getting ice cream you get to play baseball. What would you do? Highschooler…

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Learn How to Defy the Odds from this Cystonosis Mother

Learn How to Defy the Odds from this Cystonosis Mother

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 29, 2015
  • Post category:Cystinosis/Rare Disease

Tahnie was 16 months old when she was diagnosed with the rare disease cystinosis. Her parents were told she would most likely not live past the age of 10. During…

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How to be 100% Devoted Through Sickness and Health

How to be 100% Devoted Through Sickness and Health

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 29, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Rare Disease

Julia Domenick has spent nearly five years caring for her husband Andrew "Drew" after he suddenly became ill. "Drew just had his 50th birthday in rehab! We never thought that he…

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Meet TZ the IDF Zebra! #namethezebra

Meet TZ the IDF Zebra! #namethezebra

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 26, 2015
  • Post category:CGD/CVID/Primary Immunodeficiencies/Rare Disease

Meet TZ the IDF Zebra! We told you this year’s conference was going to be extra exciting in our earlier post, 2 Reasons Why the 2015 IDF National Conference is Extra…

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Feeling alone living with a PI? Here are 82 people like you!
Source: Screenshot from IDF "Reel Stories"

Feeling alone living with a PI? Here are 82 people like you!

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 26, 2015
  • Post category:CGD/CVID/Primary Immunodeficiencies/Rare Disease

We told you why this year's conference was going to be extra exciting in our earlier post, 2 Reasons Why the 2015 IDF National Conference is Extra Exciting. Find out…

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7 Crazy Plays to Cheer the Return of MLB’er with AS

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 25, 2015
  • Post category:Ankylosing Spondylitis/Rare Disease

Franklin Gutierrez is back! After dealing with the long road of recovery from his Ankylosing Spondylitis diagnosis, which we detailed here, Gutierrez made his first MLB start June 24th, 2015…

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2 Reasons Why the 2015 IDF National Conference is Extra Exciting

2 Reasons Why the 2015 IDF National Conference is Extra Exciting

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 24, 2015
  • Post category:CGD/CVID/Primary Immunodeficiencies/Rare Disease

The IDF's 2015 National Conference is quickly approaching! For 3 days, Louisiana will welcome the IDF and all of its constituents and supporters.  From Thursday, June 25th- Saturday 27th, the IDF…

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You Call the “Shots”—vaccinations with an immunodeficiency?

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 24, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Primary Immunodeficiencies/Rare Disease

    Your health is important—really important—so naturally, you want to make the best decisions for your body. However, at times, that gets tricky, especially if you have a compromised…

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When Life Hands You Lemons, and 2 Rare Diseases

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 23, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Rare Disease

Primary Immune Deficiency and Dysautonomia - Living With a Rare Disease Ilana Jacqueline looks like a perfectly healthy young woman, but looks can be deceiving. It took 19 years before…

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Why do Pharma Companies Care About Rare Diseases?

Why do Pharma Companies Care About Rare Diseases?

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 17, 2015
  • Post category:HAE/Rare Disease

Why Pharma cares more and more about Rare Diseases Congress. The FDA. Patient Advocates. And Venture Philanthropy. When it comes to rare diseases, medicines haven't always been readily available. A…

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Living with 2 Rare Diseases, this Blogger is a Champion

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 17, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Rare Disease

Meet Yoni Masel- RareDisease Patient, Advocate, Activist & Blogger His goal: To raise awareness for rare diseases, and to help others by educating and sharing #PatientWorthy information. Yoni Maisel (Yonatan Maisel)…

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A 7-Layered “How To” on Managing Your Life with CVID

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 17, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Rare Disease

Upon getting a diagnosis of a chronic illness, like CVID, or Common Variable Immune Deficiency, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Bogged down by questions in your head--What do I do…

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A.S.-Rare and Tricky to Diagnose

A.S.-Rare and Tricky to Diagnose

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 17, 2015
  • Post category:Ankylosing Spondylitis/Rare Disease

Over time, you may have noticed that you have neck pain, and that  you’re stiffer in the morning than you are by the afternoon. The most common symptom of ankylosing…

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5 “Patient Worthy” Instagram Users to check out #CVID

5 “Patient Worthy” Instagram Users to check out #CVID

  • Post author:Patient Worthy Contributor
  • Post published:June 16, 2015
  • Post category:CVID/Rare Disease

Living with CVID? Learning to manage? PatientWorthy is looking for you on Instagram if you are living with Common Variable Immunodeficiency Disease, CVID.  #PatientWorthy to share your photos with us! And…

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