The Rare Disease Podcast 4 Medics
Not your usual diabetes
Do you know what DIDMOAD stands for? Get your medical dictionary ready...diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness aka Wolfram Syndrome. This week Lucy is joined by Abby who is a young person living with Wolfram Syndrome, Tracy whose daughter has WS leading her to found Wolfram Syndrome UK with her husband and finally prof Tim Barrett from Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital who is a Children's Diabetes and Endocrine Consultant.
We explore the issues of diagnosis, variability in Wolfram Syndrome, living with complex needs and an invisible condition as well as research in rare disease. We really packed it into this episode!
Wolfram Syndrome UK
Diabetes Genes
Orphanet
Gene Reviews
Clinical trials.gov
This activity is partially funded by:
Alexion Therapeutics, Amicus Therapeutics UK Ltd, BioMarin, Bionical Emas, Healx, Kyowa Kirin and SOBI. Sponsorship does not equate to endorsement of any company or its products Go here to find out more about how M4RD works with sponsors. Companies have no editorial control over any of M4RD's activities or content of this podcast.
Views, ideas and opinions expressed in this podcast are personal to the individual and Medics4RareDiseases does not accept responsibility for those expressed by guests.
M4RD receives funding from commercial companies which it works independently from. M4RD's Partners and Funders do not accept responsibility for any views expressed in this podcast.
M4RD does not endorse any companies or products that it receives sponsorship from. For more information please see the show notes and www.m4rd.org/sponsors #DareToThinkRare
Do you know what DIDMOAD stands for? Get your medical dictionary ready...diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, optic atrophy and deafness aka Wolfram Syndrome. This week Lucy is joined by Abby who is a young person living with Wolfram Syndrome, Tracy whose daughter has WS leading her to found Wolfram Syndrome UK with her husband and finally prof Tim Barrett from Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital who is a Children's Diabetes and Endocrine Consultant.
We explore the issues of diagnosis, variability in Wolfram Syndrome, living with complex needs and an invisible condition as well as research in rare disease. We really packed it into this episode!
Wolfram Syndrome UK
Diabetes Genes
Orphanet
Gene Reviews
Clinical trials.gov
This activity is partially funded by:
Alexion Therapeutics, Amicus Therapeutics UK Ltd, BioMarin, Bionical Emas, Healx, Kyowa Kirin and SOBI. Sponsorship does not equate to endorsement of any company or its products Go here to find out more about how M4RD works with sponsors. Companies have no editorial control over any of M4RD's activities or content of this podcast.
Views, ideas and opinions expressed in this podcast are personal to the individual and Medics4RareDiseases does not accept responsibility for those expressed by guests.
M4RD receives funding from commercial companies which it works independently from. M4RD's Partners and Funders do not accept responsibility for any views expressed in this podcast.
M4RD does not endorse any companies or products that it receives sponsorship from. For more information please see the show notes and www.m4rd.org/sponsors #DareToThinkRare