{"id":58496,"date":"2012-12-25T18:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T23:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/nord-issues-statement-on-the-death-of-actor-jack-klugman\/"},"modified":"2012-12-25T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T23:41:45","slug":"nord-issues-statement-on-the-death-of-actor-jack-klugman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/nord-issues-statement-on-the-death-of-actor-jack-klugman\/","title":{"rendered":"NORD Issues Statement on the Death of Actor Jack Klugman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Klugman touched the lives of millions of Americans through his support for what ultimately became the <em>Orphan Drug Act.\u00a0 <\/em>By portraying on his Quincy, M.E. television show the plight of people with rare diseases with no treatment, Mr. Klugman focused a spotlight on the need for incentives to encourage the development of therapies for small patient populations.\u00a0 He did this in partnership with patients and patient advocates who had been unable to gain national attention until he lent his support.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In 1993, Mr. Klugman told a Chicago Tribune interviewer that his interest in the Quincy TV show stemmed partly from the fact that it allowed him to do important shows on important topics \u2013 not just to entertain.\u00a0 By airing two episodes on the need for treatments for people with rare diseases, he addressed a very important public health challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Klugman\u2019s death comes just one week before the start of the 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary year of the <em>Orphan Drug Act of 1983 <\/em>and the establishment of NORD to represent rare disease patients and patient organizations.\u00a0 NORD will always remember him as one of the best friends the rare disease community has ever had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Klugman touched the lives of millions of Americans through his support for what ultimately became the Orphan Drug Act.\u00a0 By portraying on his Quincy, M.E. television show the plight &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/nord-issues-statement-on-the-death-of-actor-jack-klugman\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NORD Issues Statement on the Death of Actor Jack Klugman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,190,210],"tags":[260,261,262,263],"class_list":["post-58496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-featured-news","category-industry","tag-jack-klugman","tag-mary-dunkle","tag-orphan-drug-act","tag-orphan-drugs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rarediseases.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}