My name is August Rocha, and I am an adopted, Chinese-American, transgender TikTok content creator living with Behçet’s disease. While I’ve been symptomatic all my life, I wasn’t diagnosed with Behçet’s until age 21, in the summer of 2016.
Behçet’s disease is a rare form of… Read More
Washington, DC, August 12, 2022 – Following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, Peter L. Saltonstall, President and CEO, the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), issued the following statement:
“The Inflation Reduction Act is a significant step forward in helping ensure that individuals… Read More
This story is about me, my diagnosis with a rare disease known as chorea-acanthocytosis and my experience of undergoing deep brain stimulation (DBS). The onset of the disease was in 2015, around the time that I turned 30 and was living on my own in Cape Town.
My journey with… Read More
I am a rare disease patient who has lived with reflex sympathy dystrophy syndrome (RDS) and complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) since 2007. In 2013, I was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV, and in 2019, I had surgery for cholesteatoma. It is a benign auditory tumor that reoccurs 50%… Read More
Today on NORDpod, Andrew MacDowell stands in for Matthew Zachary, and he welcomes Dr. Kathleen Donohue, Director of the Division of Rare Diseases and Medical Genetics, at the FDA’s Office of New Drugs. Over 350 million people worldwide have a rare disease,… Read More
