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**AARDA ADVOCATES FOR AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE PATIENTS - Virginia Ladd wrote an op-ed about preserving a patient's right to seek a specialist and to have specialty care in the Affordable Care Act that appeared in THE HILL"S Congress Blog Read about it here.
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**SAVE-THE-DATE. NEW DATE AND THEME Our Annual Tea Luncheon at the Dearborn Inn (Greater Detroit) has moved to Saturday, April 20, 2013, and is now a Kentucky Derby Luncheon. Dust off your hats and your derbys!! Watch here for details.
**NIEHS workshop inspires new papers on autoimmmunity An NIEHS sponsored workshop which brought together dozens of experts on autoimmune diseases to examine the state of the science in the field, has resulted in four new papers published online this past summer, each with the goal of improving diagnosis, treatment, and prevention in the future. Read about it here: Environmental Factor, September 2012
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