Ways to Bring Awareness to Devic's Disease/NMO:
1. Write letters to the editors of local and national newspapers, call or write your State/local Public Officials join grassroots organizations to help you bring awareness to Devic’s Disease and other rare diseases.
2.www.whitehouse.org
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is very Passionate about the state of our health care system. Please go to his website to read for yourself ways he has tried to improve health care in this Country and what he believes can or should be done to improve health care.
The Mayo Clinic
Specific link to Devic's Disease Diagnosis at the Mayo Clinic WebSite
Disability.Gov offers:
Access to affordable, quality, and accessible health care promotes the well-being and active participation of people with disabilities in their communities and in the workforce. This section of Disability.gov provides information about public and private health insurance, alternatives to institutional care, and developmental health screening for children, as well as resources for people seeking mental health services.
Social Security online:
Social Security has an obligation to provide benefits quickly to applicants whose medical conditions are so serious that their conditions obviously meet disability standards.
Compassionate allowances are a way of quickly identifying diseases and other medical conditions that invariably qualify under the Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information. Compassionate allowances allow Social Security to quickly target the most obviously disabled individuals for allowances based on objective medical information that we can obtain quickly.
The Transverse Myelitis Association (TMA) is a non-profit and international organization started in 1994 by family members and persons with Transverse Myelitis diagnosis. TMA has over 5600 members from more than 80 Countries. Forf more information regarding TMA, please visit their website at
Links specific to Devic's Disease on Clinical Trials
The Walton Centre is Dedicated to Research and Treatment for Devic's Disease in England
Walton Centre LiverPool England Link
Sharecare Ghana (Sharecare4u) was started in 2006 by a group of people in Ghana with rare neuro-immunological diseases. The group was later widened to include all people with autoimmune conditions - such as Transverse Myelitis, Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM), Neuromyelitis Optica (Devic's disease), Rheumatoid Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus - their families and friends, and the professionals taking care of them. For more Information,Please visit the website at:
The Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to curing Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by determining the cause of MS. For more information please visit the site at:
GENETIC AND RARE DISEASES INFORMATION CENTER
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKES
Genetic Alliances
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Provides Resources: Educational, Medical and Moral Support to individuals on Medicaid.
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