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. […]
MLD Newborn Screening Pilot Study – Announcement Read More »
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
Newborn Screening – Should a Viable Therapy be a Requirement for a NBS? Read More »
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
MLD Newborn Screening – We need your blood & urine! Read More »
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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Welcome to the MLD Foundation’s new blog! We’re excited to share about topics of interest to the MLD, lysosomal disease, leukodystrophy, and frankly, the entire rare disease community. Many of you in the general public and the MLD Family know us from the family support we provide to families affected by MLD … MLD Family
