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HARTFORD - State Sen. Joseph J. Crisco, Jr., D-Woodbridge, co-chair of the legislature's Insurance Committee, Friday helped launch the first meeting of the state's PANDAS Advisory Council.
The task force was created by law earlier this year to synthesize information about research, diagnosis, and treatment and as an outreach and education program for health care providers for Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcus (PANDAS).
"An abundance of clinical evidence has combined with heart-wrenching personal accounts from so many family members of PANDAS patients, describing the effects of this devastating disorder, to warrant an accelerated policy response from the General Assembly," Crisco said.
"Last year we enacted law compelling a formal study of this autoimmune malfunction; this year we created the PANDAS Advisory Council, and early next year the Public Health Committee will receive its first annual report to enhance our state's effort to help the afflicted."
This is a press release from Crisco's office.
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