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USA survey for anyone who wants to improve Denver TMAU test

begun : Dec22
end : no ending for now

A trainee genetic counselor is working at the Denver TMAU test lab. Probably as part of her training. As a project she wishes feedback on any aspect of the Denver TMAU test and process. You can fill in the survey and/or email her (email address is in survey). It's meant for USA people, but perhaps others can give their view too (as we have so few opportunities).

quote from her rareconnect post

"Hello all! I wanted to make you aware of a research study being conducted to better understand the experience and needs of individuals with trimethylaminuria with a goal of being able to create improved patient and healthcare provider education materials. Any participation is completely voluntary and all responses remain confidential. Feel free to use the contact information within the link with any questions or share the survey with others with TMAU."

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https://www.meboblog.com/2023/01/denver-tmau-test-survey-tbc-who-it-is.html

Friday, January 13, 2012

Nomination of TMAU as disability in Social Security Administration's Compassionate Allowance list

We are happy and proud to announce that Dr. Elizabeth Shephard has spearheaded the nomination of Trimethylaminuria (TMAU) as a condition to be considered for inclusion on the U.S. Social Security Administration’s (SSA) ‘Compassionate Allowances’ list. She submitted her nomination today to the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) with a packet compiled by her and representatives of MEBO Research in the US and the UK.

Dr. Shephard's packet submitted to SSA through NORD consists of:
  1. Dr. Shephard's paper depicting the scientific basis for the cause of TMAU with a brief summary of the disorder and manifestations,
  2. MEBO Research letter to Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue written by Maria de la Torre, Founder and Executive Director and Colin Harvey-Woodworth, MEBO UK's Scientific Director describing the quality of life of a person living with TMAU,
  3. Document written by Dr. Cheryl Fields, MEBO US's Community Outreach Director in support of this nomination, and
  4. A personal testimonial written by MEBO UK's Public Relations Director, Karen James.

Shortly before New Years Eve 2011-2012, Dr. Elizabeth Shephard contacted MEBO Research advising that NORD was seeking her help in identifying TMAU as one of the most disabling rare diseases so that those who have them qualify for expedite review of applications for Social Security Disability assistance. See the Social Security Administration (SSA) Compassionate Allowances page.


A subset of these impairments [that have sufficient medical evidence to qualify as disabling] are ‘compassionate allowances’ made for conditions known to be chronically disabling that can be verified with minimal medical information. These conditions, like most rare diseases, are often systemic, have no indicated treatment, and are genetic in nature. NORD > Advocacy > Current Initiatives and Issues Updates

The guidelines and explanation of this program provided to Dr. Shephard by NORD explain,


Because Commissioner Astrue has previous knowledge of what it's like to live with a rare disease, he created the Compassionate Allowances Program early in his tenure at SSA. Currently, there are 113 diseases on the list, and several are ones that NORD medical advisors have suggested. SSA has also gotten strong support and much input for this program from rare disease experts at NIH and elsewhere…Before Commissioner Astrue completes his six-year term at SSA, he would like to roll out one more expansion of the Compassionate Allowances list, possibly adding enough diseases to bring the total list to 200 medical conditions. He and his staff are asking NORD (and others, including NIH medical experts) to suggest diseases for this expansion.

This means that Commissioner Astrue would like 
to add up to 87 new rare diseases to the Compassionate Allowances list!

Needless to say, MEBO Research has enthusiastically worked to support Dr. Shephard as she spearheaded her nomination of Trimethylaminuria as a condition to be considered for inclusion on the ‘Compassionate Allowances’ list. On a one and a half hour conference call with her, we strategized and determined our course of action.
This means that Commissioner Astrue would like to add up to 87 new rare diseases to the Compassionate Allowances list!
It goes without saying that Dr. Shephard would write the scientific basis for the cause of TMAU with a brief summary of the disorder and its manifestations. MEBO Research would prepare a letter to Commissioner Astrue describing the quality of life of a person with TMAU. MEBO US’s Community Outreach Director, Dr. Cheryl Fields would write a document in support of this nomination, and Karen James, MEBO UK’s Public Relations Director wrote a personal testimonial for which our international community is very much appreciative. Colin Harvey-Woodworth, MEBO UK’s Scientific Director was very instrumental in preparing the quality of life presentation, adapted from a previous paper he co-authored and published in the British Journal of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery entitled, Patients' perception of the financial impact of head and neck cancer and the relationship to health related quality of life. Our most sincere gratitude goes out to Colin for this most invaluable contribution.

MEBO US's Public Relations Director, Glenna Gonzalez, will be personally setting up appointments to visit with Congressional Staffers she met when she went to Capitol Hill.
The deadline to submit this nomination is today, January 13, 2012, and as noted in the NORD guidelines,

Since we must submit our list to SSA by mid-January, we would need to receive your suggestions by January 13. SSA will spend a period of several months vetting all input provided to them by NORD and others. They plan to announce their final decisions regarding diagnoses to add to the list in late 2012.

Already Dr. Shephard and Karen James, MEBO UK Public Relations Director, have discussed taking a similar packet to the UK National Health Services (NHS) authorities
Once SSA receives our nomination, Dr. Shephard and MEBO expect to be assigned a case number, and possibly to hold interviews with SSA and/or NIH representatives, and to fill out additional forms, as seems to have been the pattern with other rare diseases nominations. We ask our international community to be prepared to participate in an organized email/mail campaign directed at specific contacts we will recommend, including but not limited to their respective legislators. MEBO will provide numerous templates that sufferers can copy and paste to email/mail on strategically targeted dates.
MEBO US's Public Relations Director, Glenna Gonzalez, will be personally setting up appointments to visit with Congressional Staffers she met when she went to Capitol Hill on Genetics Day on the Hill, sponsored by Genetic Alliance. The legislators she will be seeing are two Senators (VA), Jim Webb - (D) and Mark R. Warner - (D), and three House of Representatives, Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor of VA, Gerald E. Connoly of VA - (D), and Representative James Moran - (D). During that time, we will reach out for support from other body odor and halitosis organizations and forums from around the world so that we may show strength in our numbers.

MEBO Research aspires and intends to do all possible to further the list to include future system body odor conditions as they are identified through formal research efforts MEBO intends to initiate with the medical community. As stated in MEBO’s letter to Commissioner Astrue,

We urge you [Commissioner Astrue] to consider providing people in the United States with this opportunity to come out from their systematic socially imposed “solitary confinement.” Consequently, if you provide us with this benefit, MEBO Research will then use this listing to present to other governments as an example of how cost-effective special programs such as these could open doors to such a restrictive disability and thus allow patients to be productive citizens while we wait for research to find a cure.
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Already Dr. Shephard and Karen James, MEBO UK Public Relations Director, have discussed taking a similar packet to the UK National Health Services (NHS) authorities in hopes that the same or similar benefit may be extended to people diagnosed with TMAU, and hopefully to other systemic body odor diseases identified in the future with research.

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fantastic news

Jan 13, 2012, 6:49:00 AM
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