It’s official! On February 16th, Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, accepted the Advisory Committee of Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children’s recommendation to expand the Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP) to include the addition of X-ALD. This does not require states to test newborns for the disease, as there is no funding …
We thank Dr. Albee Messing with the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for sharing two webinars and a podcast with updates on research on Alexander Disease. We hope that you will find this information useful: http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/alexander-disease/webinars.html
It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Dr. William Kintner on Sunday January 3, 2016. Dr. Kintner was involved with the ULF since the early 1980’s. He served as the Board Vice President from 1986 to 2012. Bill was elected President of the ULF in 2012 and served …
