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With over 6,000 identified rare diseases, diagnosing a patient can often be like searching for a needle in a haystack. And with only a limited number of specialists and specialty medical centers, rare disease patients and their families often don’t know where to turn.
For patients with rare diseases, the path to diagnosis can be long and difficult. But, as a new policy paper from the European Alliance for Patient Access notes, that’s only one of several hurdles that patients face.
After a four-year campaign, the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society and the British Society for Rheumatology have succeeded in levelling the playing field for people with rheumatoid arthritis in England and Wales.