Newborn Screening

We have 20/20 Vision for MLD

2020 will bring new clinical and therapeutic care to the MLD community. When we started serving MLD Families in 1999 – two decades ago – we had no idea how challenging and time-consuming it would be to improve clinical care and disease altering therapies. Along with your support, we’ve done a lot of heavy and […]

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#GivingTuesday

Your Giving Keeps Us Going – and directly helps families! #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday is Here! Here in the US we celebrated Thanksgiving this past weekend.  It’s a time of family, thanks, and giving.  Most of us “gave” at the mall on Black Friday or online on Cyber Monday … but now it’s #GivingTuesday, an annual day where the world comes together to give. November is MLD Foundation’s

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#GivingTuesday

Your Giving Keeps Us Going and directly helps families! #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday is Here! Here in the US we celebrated Thanksgiving this past weekend.  It’s a time of family, thanks, and giving.  Most of us “gave” at the mall on Black Friday or online on Cyber Monday … but now it’s #GivingTuesday, an annual day where the world comes together to give. November is MLD Foundation’s

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#GivingTuesday

Your Giving Keeps Us Going! #GivingTuesday

#GivingTuesday is Here! Here in the US we celebrated Thanksgiving this past weekend.  It’s a time of family, thanks, and giving.  Most of us “gave” at the mall on Black Friday or online on Cyber Monday … but now it’s #GivingTuesday, an annual day where the world comes together to give. November is MLD Foundation’s

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MLD Newborn Screening Pilot Study – Announcement

Today is Rare Disease Day. It’s an appropriate day to announce we have come one step closer to a MLD Newborn Screen! The pilot study to test the newly developed MLD Newborn assay/technique on current newborn babies born in Washington state will be starting within the next three months once testing lab equipment is in place.

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MLD Foundation – Very Active This Rare Disease Day (2/29)

February 29th is Rare Disease Day this year.  1 in 10 – 30 million Americans – have one of the 7,000 rare diseases. On this rare day take a look around – who is it in your circle that has a rare disease? MLD Foundation is very busy this Rare Disease Day not only on

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Mld Family Conference™ – Register Now!

Registration for our 2105 MLD Family Conference in Newark Delaware is underway and closes in just a couple of weeks.  If you are a MLD Family we’re anxious to have you register. Many of your MLD Family will be there to meet, share, and socialize with. Please bring your MLD loved one with you – we not only want

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Newborn Screening – Should a Viable Therapy be a Requirement for a NBS?

The requirements for adding a Newborn Screen (NBS) to the RUSP (Recommended Uniform Screening Panel by the SACHDNC/DACHDNC (Secretary’s Discretionary Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children) consists of four primary criteria: An acceptable treatment protocol in place that changes the outcome for patients diagnosed early with the disease An understanding of the condition’s

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MLD Newborn Screening – We need your blood & urine!

The MLD Foundation is collaborating with researchers at the University of Washington who are working on developing a newborn screen for MLD that would hopefully address the problems encountered with traditional screening approaches caused by the MLD pseudo-deficiency. For their work they need samples of blood and urine from 15 affected MLD individuals. All samples

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RARE Patient Advocacy Summit – 2012

I was pleased to be the organizer and host for the RARE Project | Global Genes RARE Patient Advocacy Summit on September 29th, 2012. The day-long event with 140 in attendance and over 120 viewing via a live webcast.  Videos of the event are available below for viewing.

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