NIH launches Undiagnosed Diseases Program

The National Institutes for Health (NIH) Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) launched last month the "Undiagnosed Diseases Program". The goals (from their website) are:

• To provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis
• To advance medical knowledge about rare and common diseases

To get into the program, you need a doctor referral and they are not able to take very many from what they said, but I think it could be a life saver for some folks. Hopefully, they'll be able to learn more about these strange diseases some of us get...

For more information, see their site.


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