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Social Security Adds 38 New Compassionate Allowance Conditions

New Compassionate Allowance Conditions (effective March 1, 2010)
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Alstrom Syndrome
2
Amegakaryocytic Thrombocytopenia
3
Ataxia Spinocerebellar
4
Ataxia Telangiectasia
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Batten Disease
6
Bilateral Retinoblastoma
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Cri du Chat Syndrome
8
Degos Disease
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Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease
10
Edwards Syndrome
11
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva
12
Fukuyama Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
13
Glutaric Acidemia Type II
14
Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), Familial Type
15
Hurler Syndrome, Type IH
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Hunter Syndrome, Type II
17
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
18
Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa, Lethal Type
19
Late Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses
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Leigh’s Disease
21
Maple Syrup Urine Disease
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Merosin Deficient Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
23
Mixed Dementia
24
Mucosal Malignant Melanoma
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Neonatal Adrenoleukodystrophy
26
Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, Infantile Type
27
Niemann-Pick Type C
28
Patau Syndrome
29
Primary Progressive Aphasia
30
Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
31
Sanfilippo Syndrome
32
Subacute Sclerosis Panencephalitis
33
Tay Sachs Disease
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Thanatophoric Dysplasia, Type 1
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Ullrich Congenital Muscular Dystrophy
36
Walker Warburg Syndrome
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Wolman Disease
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Zellweger Syndrome
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