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To help drive the efforts of the Rare Action Network℠, NORD launched the State Ambassador Program. State Ambassadors are volunteers in a leadership position responsible for establishing and building a strong grassroots network of rare disease advocates within their state to help increase awareness of rare diseases and the challenges patients and their families face. […]

Washington, D.C., July 13, 2017—The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), the leading independent nonprofit organization representing the 30 million Americans with rare diseases, issued the following statement regarding the release of a revised draft of the Senate Leadership’s Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017: Senate Leadership today released a revised draft of the Better Care Reconciliation […]

CALL TO ACTION: Congress could vote this week – please take a minute to phone your legislators and ask them to vote no (click)  Washington, D.C., May 1, 2017—The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), the leading independent nonprofit organization representing the 30 million Americans with rare diseases, issued the following statement in response to […]