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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Connecticut Newsletter for Sunday October 27, 2024 ( 4 items )  

National Organization for Rare Disorders Launches the Living Rare Study - First to Measure Full Scope of Rare Disease Challenges
DANBURY, Connecticut, Oct. 22 (TNSres) -- The National Organization for Rare Disorders issued the following news release on Oct. 21, 2024: WASHINGTON, DC, October 21, 2024 - Today, the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) introduced the Living Rare Study, a groundbreaking multi-year research initiative designed to capture and analyze the experiences of those living with a rare disease. As the first large-scale study of its kind in the United States, it will explore challenges faced b  more

Sudan: Famine Crisis Worsens as Children Show Physical Signs of Starvation
WESTPORT, Connecticut, Oct. 22 [Category: Sociological] -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following news release: PORT SUDAN, (Oct. 22, 2024) Families in Sudan are eating grass to survive in an escalating hunger crisis, with famine-levels of malnutrition spreading across half of Sudan's 18 states, said Save the Children. The extremely high rate of global acute malnutrition (GA  more

Three-time Academy Award(r) Nominated Actor and Screenwriter Sacha Baron Cohen announces $500,000 donation to the International Rescue Committee and Save the Children USA for Sudan to address the world's most severe hunger crisis
WESTPORT, Connecticut, Oct. 24 [Category: Sociological] -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following news release: Eighteen months after the eruption of a brutal conflict in Sudan, 25.6 million people more than half of the country's population are experiencing crisis or worse levels of food insecurity. Right now, more people are living in famine-conditions than the rest of the w  more

VFW: 'Thank You Doesn't Seem Like Enough'
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Oct. 26 -- The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., a veterans service organization, issued the following news release: Marine Corps veteran Dustin Alley, 36, lives in Bristol, Connecticut, with his wife, Sarah, and their three children, Evan, Ethan and Katelyn. He was stationed in Beaufort, South Carolina, and Yuma, Arizona. Later, Alley deployed to Afghanistan as an air traffic controller. He served in the military for nine years and left as a sergeant. Alley was in e  more