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FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES

Our children are fighting a progressive and fatal disease called 

Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC).


Without their medication, there is nothing to help them fight back. 

sign & share our fda petition

If our kids lose these medicines, they will die.

We need the following changes to occur immediately: 


  1. The FDA must lift all barriers creating life or death uncertainties for patients currently receiving investigational therapies for NPC. 
  2. The FDA must use regulatory flexibility and evaluate medications to treat NPC with the knowledge that NPC is ultra-rare, degenerative and fatal. 
  3. The FDA must immediately work with the scientific and patient community and design trials that are feasible, meaningful and do not put patients in harm’s way.


Sign and share this petition to tell the FDA that it must address the needs of those with NPC by approving medicines and increasing access to existing medicines.  

This is urgent. Ours and our children's lives depend on this.



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SAVE their medicine. Save their lives.

Imagine your child gives their everything to live, laugh and grow. They have an aggressive and relentless fatal disease—think childhood Alzheimer's crossed with Parkinson's crossed with ALS, but in young children.


It's called Niemann-Pick Type C (NPC). 

They are living and thriving because of miraculous, life-saving medications, called Abdrabetadex & Arimoclomol.


Without these medications, there is nothing to fight back the fatal disease. A disease that will steal everything, including life itself.
 


This past year, we've seen what our country—government, biopharma companies and the medical community—can do when a public health emergency is upon us. 


The same urgency is needed by the FDA, industry and policymakers to accelerate the development of new treatments for NPC and other rare diseases.

Don't give up on them. Don't give up on us.

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Patient Worthy: Rare Disease News

STAT Reporting: from the frontiers of health and medicine

Patient Worthy: Rare Disease News

Right now, it is crucial to amplify the discussion around NPC, those who are affected, and why the FDA’s denial of arimoclomol could present immense issues for patients.


Moving forward, the fight for NPC research and treatments is on the horizon. The entire NPC community is going through a frightening time, with both potential treatments currently halted by the FDA.

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Business Wire

STAT Reporting: from the frontiers of health and medicine

Patient Worthy: Rare Disease News

Mandos, LLC Agrees to Acquire Adrabetadex from Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals


“We look forward to engaging with this passionate community of patients, caregivers, clinicians, and regulators over the coming months, once the transaction is approved. We care deeply about ensuring access for patients and are committed to supporting efforts to improve the lives of people with NPC1,” said Scott Riccio, EVP, Patient & Community Engagement at Mandos.


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STAT Reporting: from the frontiers of health and medicine

STAT Reporting: from the frontiers of health and medicine

STAT Reporting: from the frontiers of health and medicine

Mallinckrodt Sells Rare Disease Drug

‘There’s so much uncertainty’: As Mallinckrodt sells rare disease drug, parents worry about access


After at least two possible buyers did not pan out, Mallinckrodt reached a deal on Wednesday to sell the drug to a little-known company called Mandos for $1 million and $2 million more in milestone payments, according to court documents. And Mallinckrodt agreed to secure enough supply to allow access to the drug for potentially up to two years under expanded access.


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ABC News

ABC News (KETV)

STAT Reporting: from the frontiers of health and medicine

Woodrow Miller, a 21-month-old toddler, has now received his first infusion of Adrabetadex, an experimental medication for Niemann-Pick Type C disease.


ABC15 has been in touch with Woodrow's family every day since they left for Chicago's Rush University Medical Center last week, to start Woodrow's treatment. His family tells us Woodrow took his first spinal infusion like a champ.

The experimental medication gives hope to so many families who have children suffering from Niemann-Pick Type C, a rare and fatal disease that eventually takes away a child's ability to walk, talk, swallow, and breathe. It has been likened to a childhood form of Alzheimer's.


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ABC News (KETV)

ABC News (KETV)

ABC News (KETV)

'We know it works': Families & Doctors fight move to discontinue medication


Imagine being a parent and being told your child is going to die. That's the reality for an Omaha couple who says recent news about their son's disease feels like a nightmare starting all over again.

For the parents of a 5-year-old, the news is devastating.

They recently received word that the company that makes their son's medicine is taking it away.


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CBS

ABC News (KETV)

ABC News (KETV)

‘She Will Die Without This Medication’: 


Toddler’s Life Hangs In Balance After ‘Miracle’ Drug Discontinued


“We will be working with them until the bitter end, and I can’t promise that we are going to find a way to go past October, but we are going to explore every option,” 


- Dr. Elizabeth Berry-Kravis

Chicago, IL



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Daily Kos

NBC - Los Angeles news story

NPC Moms Podcast

A terrible disease, children at risk, and a promising treatment that's about to vanish


The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a specific classification for what is known as a “rare pediatric disease.” Every condition that meets that designation is, by definition, horrible. These are the diseases that most families are blissfully unaware of, while for others the names of these diseases—Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease, CANDLE Syndrome, Pompe Disease—become a dark drumbeat that sounds behind each moment of their lives.

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NPC Moms Podcast

NBC - Los Angeles news story

NPC Moms Podcast

Firefly Fund co-founder Pam Andrews has a heartfelt and candid conversation with nine other NPC moms from around the world regarding recent news of the discontinuation of the medication Adrabetadex. 


This episode gives a glimpse into the difficult circumstances NPC families are facing, as well as their personal concerns and fears about their children's futures.

Episodes: Part 1 & Part 2





Podcast

NBC - Los Angeles news story

NBC - Los Angeles news story

NBC - Los Angeles news story

Experimental Treatment for Rare Children's Disease to be Discontinued


Niemann-Pick is a disease that affects memory and is sometimes referred to as Childhood Alzheimer’s, but Niemann-Pick ravages the whole body. Darsha Philips reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on March 4, 2021.

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Quad Cities news story

Quad Cities news story

NBC - Los Angeles news story

Medication for a 7-year-old boy from Morrison Illinois with a rare genetic disease is being discontinued


by: Brian Gallagher

Posted: Feb 3, 2021 / 08:45 PM CST

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Wall Street Journal

Quad Cities news story

Wall Street Journal

When Drug Development for Rare Disease Hit Setback, Parents Were Stung


Families, scientists, regulators and drugmakers were all invested in development a treatment for Niemann-Pick Type C disease - so why is it taking so long?


By Amy Dockser Marcus

Photo: Pam Andrews

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