To listen to the radio program, click here. The following article was written on www.npr.org by Anna Gorman: Kerri De Nies received the news this spring from her son’s pediatrician: Her chubby-cheeked toddler has a rare brain disorder. She’d never heard of the disease — adrenoleukodystrophy, or ALD — but soon felt
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California A.L.D. Newborn Screening Program to Begin mid-September
We received word from the California Department of Public Health’s Genetic Disease Screening Program (GDSP) that adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) screening will begin in mid-September. In 2013, The Myelin Project sponsored California Assembly Bill 1559 – authored by former Assemblyman, now California Senator Dr. Richard Pan – in order to mandate newborn screening of adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) in California. On September 25th, 2014, Governor Jerry