Since Jean and Dr. Jack Kelley’s son Brian was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy at the age of six, the parents have advocated for a statewide screening program to test all newborns for the disorder in the hope of saving another boy’s life. Three years after a bill mandating ALD be added
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Archive for August, 2016
California A.L.D. Newborn Screening Program to Begin mid-September
We received word from the California Department of Public Health’s Genetic Disease Screening Program (GDSP) that adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) screening will begin in mid-September. In 2013, The Myelin Project sponsored California Assembly Bill 1559 – authored by former Assemblyman, now California Senator Dr. Richard Pan – in order to mandate newborn
Viking Therapeutics Announces Results of VK0214 in x-ALD Mouse Model
Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (“Viking”) (NASDAQ: VKTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapies for metabolic and endocrine disorders, today announced positive top-line results from a proof-of-concept study of VK0214 in a mouse model of X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD). The results of this study showed that VK0214 rapidly