National of his high-profile initiative Institutes (NIH) to diagnose diseases mystery health is a pause to catch his breath.
The Undiagnosed Diseases Program was launched in 08 to help desperate people for diagnosis and use the discovery of new diseases to learn more about human biology. But as of today, the program temporarily stop accepting new applications for the cases to be studied because of "overwhelming number of applications already received," according to the note posted on the program website .
"We were inundated for some time. This is an effort on the last chance to catch up," said the head of William Gahl program, a biochemical geneticist at the National Research Institute on the genome human. "We want to be able to devote more time to the conditions that we have seen."
undiagnosed diseases Program has received inquiries from 5400, and a complete application, with medical records the sick person, were presented to about 100, according Gahl. the program has so far accepted 450 of these candidates, but only had time to investigate about 350 cases to date, each person usually comes in about a week of study at the clinical center of Bethesda, Maryland, the NIH campus. Gahl said that applications already submitted will always be considered for such a full investigation. and he hopes the program, which released its first discovery a new genetic disease earlier this year, will resume accepting new cases of applications in a few months.
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