In February, we held our fist multidisciplinary clinic for adult NF patients, which is now happening on a monthly basis. It is evident that this model of care provides significant benefits for ...
It's more prevalent than cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, hereditary muscular dystrophy and Tay-Sachs disease combined, but most people have never even heard of neurofibromatosis (NF), a ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — UAMS and the Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF) announced the opening of the first CTF-sponsored clinic in the country that will treat adults with neurofibromatosis, a group of rare ...
UF Health Jacksonville has joined the NF Clinic Network to provide specialized care for individuals with neurofibromatosis and schwannomatosis. These genetic conditions can cause tumors to grow on ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) For decades, doctors at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital have been helping patients with a common, yet not very well known condition: neurofibromatosis. Neurofibromatosis, ...
(SALT LAKE CITY)—As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah's Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, David H. Viskochil, M.D., Ph.D, led the discovery of the gene that causes neurofibromatosis ...
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What causes neurofibromatosis, and how is it treated? Is it very common? I had not heard of the disease until my niece was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis type 1. ANSWER: ...