By Adaline Dunnberg | June 19, 2023Your voice and actions matter! We need your immediate assistance in advocating for continued funding for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). As the House and Senate finalize their 2024 budgets, we must ensure that the UDN receives the necessary support to...
By Casey West Robertson | June 7, 2023 As a parent and caregiver of an undiagnosed disease patient, we face many emotions and mental wellness challenges on our journey. Some of these emotions come in cycles when milestones are not met, and others come daily with the...
By Andrea Klein | June 7, 2023 As a mother of two children under the age of three, I think most would agree that life gets really busy. Add in an undiagnosed genetic condition shared by both children with a slew of medical complexities, most days feel...
By Kathleen Cisco | June 7, 2023 As clinical site coordinator for the UDN, I have a front row seat to the diagnostic odyssey. I am able to work directly and closely with the patients and families and come to know them intimately. By the time our...
By F. Sessions Cole, M.D. | June 7, 2023 Caring for the Undiagnosed - those children and adults whose symptoms do not fit into a known diagnostic category - impacts every involved provider through many rewards, challenges, and guilt. Here, I offer my personal perspective about...
By Amy Gray | April 28, 2023Washington, DC – The Undiagnosed Diseases Network Foundation (UDNF) joins forces with patient advocacy organizations around the globe to shine a light on undiagnosed diseases. Undiagnosed Day seeks to educate policy makers, researchers, and health professionals about the need...
By Amy Gray | April 18, 2023 Washington, DC – Today, a team of patients with undiagnosed and ultra-rare diseases, their family members, medical providers, and advocacy partners announced the launch of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network Foundation (UDNF). The organization aims to improve access to diagnosis,...
For a lot of my childhood, I was really hopeful that my doctors were going to figure out a diagnosis that would miraculously explain everything that was going on with me. I was young and didn't understand much about the world around me but what...
By Adaline Dunnberg | March 7, 2023 Today, our friends at UDN PEER hosted a lecture titled “UDNF: Centering Patients in Diagnosis, Research, and Care” featuring the organization’s founding board members. Watch the interview conducted by Sarah Marshall, UDN PEER Co-chair, to meet...
Our first son Carson was born in 2011, and our diagnostic odyssey began just a few months later when we began to notice that his developmental milestones weren’t quite tracking with other kids his age. His movements seemed stiff and jerky, and he had trouble...