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Lucy welcomes you back to The Rare Disease Podcast 4 Medics for season 2! Yay! This episode explains what M4RD has been up to this year so far and some plans for the future.

The Unusual Suspects: Rare disease in everyday medicine was on 9th Feb. Soon you will be able to catch up on all the talks via the M4RD Video Library. Make sure you're on our our mailing list so you don't miss out.

The winner of The Student Voice Prize 2021 was announced in February. Congratulations to the winner and runners up. Check out their essays here and if you didn't take part in this essay competition in 2021, 2022 can be your year. Check it out in October.

The Guardian Rare Disease Day pullout. Find M4RD and Medscape on page 8 'Rare disease education is key to enabling medics to achieve the best for their patients'. You can check out Medscape's Pathways in Rare Disease here.

Co-ordinated care for people affected by rare diseases: the CONCORD mixed-methods study published today!

And Lucy thanks M4RD's sponsors of their 2022 activities:
Alexion Therapeutics, Amicus Therapeutics UK Ltd, BioMarin, Bionical Emas, Healx, Kyowa Kirin and SOBI.  Sponsorship does not equate to endorsement of any company or its products Go here to find out more about how M4RD works with sponsors. Companies have not editorial control over any activities or content of this podcast.

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M4RD receives funding from commercial companies which it works independently from. M4RD's Partners and Funders do not accept responsibility for any views expressed in this podcast.

M4RD does not endorse any companies or products that it receives sponsorship from. For more information please see the show notes and www.m4rd.org/sponsors #DareToThinkRare