Read the December E-News Highlights Advancing Hope: A Year of Research Progress in Undiagnosed and Ultra-rare Diseases Until Rare is Not a Barrier: How Your Donation Helps Help Make the Impossible Possible...
Read the November E-News Highlights Undiagnosed. Ultra-rare. United. UDNF Community Events 2024 Wrap-up The UDNF public statement for the FDA Rare Disease Innovation Hub Celebrating Cargivers Month with Jessica Patay from We Are Brave Together...
Research Webinar Join us for an engaging research webinar presented by the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) and the Undiagnosed Diseases Network Foundation (UDNF), where we will highlight progress in the field of undiagnosed and ultra-rare diseases. This webinar will showcase research advancements...
What the UDN offers patients like myself extends far beyond the obvious search for diagnosis and treatment. It offers a far more elusive gift; one that we struggle at times to find, and at other times to hang on to. One that we frequently abandon when caught in the throes of nihilistic despair.
It offers HOPE.
– Ingrid Kovitch, UDN Participant
Eli is a very energetic and playful kid. He loves Superheroes! His favorite characters are the PJ Masks, and he loves to run around the house imitating them. Eli is the most loving and pure child. He LOVES hugs and kisses and asks for them
Finding Connection While Undiagnosed Having an undiagnosed child with a disability leaves our family with many unanswered questions. What doctors specialize in our child’s care? How do we learn more about his condition? How do we map his future when there are no other maps
Like so many in the Rare and Undiagnosed Disease community, my story begins with… surprise. For some it was an unexpected pregnancy complication. For others, a missed milestone, some insidious decline, or a dramatic medical crisis. And in the blink of an eye our hopes
